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A DEAD CARNATlON.
Leonard Contemplates the Contents OF a
Desk Drawer.

Leonard Contemplates the Contents OF a
Desk Drawer.
The desk drawer, opened, exhaled an
udor of faded flowers.
"Let us plunge into the atmosphere
Of sweet memories" said Leonard.
Wife absent, Leonard addressing
Bayard his most intimate friend, indi-
Gated withered blossoms. Faded and
grown musty in the lapse of years, they
reposed at the bottom of the desk
drawer.
"This lily" said Leonard, signing,
"was the flower given me by Blanche,
my first love, when l took from her
lips timid kiss. She was as white as
it's impeccable petals, fragrant as it's
pure corolla, graceful as it's dropping
stem, and who knows what might have
happened had she not died in the bloom
of youth?''
."And the rose?" asked Bayard.
"Ah, that was later!" said Leonard,
with burst of laughter "Rosette gave
me that when she first brushed my lips
with her own. The petals were once
rosy as her warm being, and the flower s
beauty was radiant and amorous as her
young womanhood. If she had not been
tickle. she might now be my wife. F"
"And the orchid?" queried Bayard.
"Hippolyta presented me with that, "
said Leonard, thoughtfully, "when she
saw me trembling in alteration at her
feet. Time was when it had the mystic
charm of her own perverse personality,
and if a Russian nobleman had not
eloped with her l should still be her de-
voted slave. -
Bayard discovered bunch of faded
violets.
"And these?' he Intercepted.
"They were the flowers, " murmured
Leonard sadly, (which Etienette sent
me when l had treated her brutally, be-
lieving that she had deceived me. She
was demure and tender as the blooms,
and, after the storm of my passions she
came like a peaceful sprite to pour
beauty and love into my life. Had she
forgiven me, it might have BEEN
At this point Leonard interrupted
himself, seizing angrily dead carna-
ton.
"Wby is this flower here?" he cried.
cit has no place among the precious
memories. Away with it at oncev'
In moment the unresisting carna.
tion was reduced to dust under his pitt,
less foot.
"Why do you destroy it?" questioned
Bayard.
Because it is the carnation Emilia
gave me when she said she would be
my wife, said Leonard, cynically,
land I married her. "-Philadelphi
Bulletin.
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Foreigners With Spain.

Washington, March 15.-There is a
startling conviction stealing over the
capital. 1t already permeates all branch
es of the government, from the executive
down. 1t may be summed up in the
brief declaration: Spain will not de-
clare war" 1t can be emphasized by
saying: Spain cannot be provoked to
declare war" Hostilities, If they are to
be begun at all. must be begun by the
United States. and then Spain will take
the defensive. The dons will insist on
maintaining what they claim are their
rights--to govern their own colonies and
to suppress rebellion in their own way.
This intention is known here. 1t is also
clearly understood what has led to Spain
assuming this position.
Premier Sagasta believes that neither
Russia, Austria, Germany, France nor
Italy will stand neutral and permit the
United States to despoil his govern
ment of Cuba. He knows, and it is
credited here as a fact, that notes of
protest against Cuban interference will
be sent to President Mckinley by several
foreign ministers, conciliatory in tone,
but strong in their injunctions against
such action,
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REMARKABLE TOWNS.
One In England That Is Made of Railway
Carriages.

Carriages.
Scattered throughout the area of
Great Britain are numerous towns and
villages of curious character. One
large village actually consists of old
railway carriages, even the little mis-
sion chapel being built out of four large
horse trucks. Another village, with a
population of /, 100 and ratable value
of G8, 900, has neither church, chapel
nor school, the only public edifce being
pillar letter box.
Villages with a single inhabitant are
not unknown. At Skiddaw, in Cumber-
land, there is a solitary householder,
who cannot vote because there is no
overseer to prepare voters list and no
church or other public building on
which to publish one, while the only
ratepayer in certain rural Northum-
berland parish has recently declined to
bear the expense of repairing road be-
cause he considers it quite good enough
for himself.
In the isle Of Ely there is a little
parish which has been somewhat con-
temptuously described as "a portion of
land, with three or four houses and per-
haps 10 inhabitants. This place has
no roads at all and is consequently put
to no expense in keeping them in repair.
AS matter of fact, there are no ex-
penses of any kind and no rates.
One of the most remarkable villages
in this country is Kempton, near Bed
ford, which is seven miles long and ex-
tremely struggling. To walk from one
end of the village to the other occupies
two hours.
Sometimes whole villages will prac-
tically disappear. A little Shropshire
village has gradually sunk, until now
it is almost out of sight. 1t is built on
a disused coal pit, and the sinking goes
on steadily every year. Now and then
a tottering house is propped up to keep
it standing, but in spite Of all precau
tions buildings are constantly falling to
the ground, and in course of time doubt
less nothing will be left but a few
bricks to mark the spot where village
once stood.
There are plenty of deserted villages
throughout the country. A diversion of
trade into other channels is sometimes
sufficient to produce this effect. Not
many years ago the proprietors of an
iron works at townlet near Sheffield,
being unable to obtain certain conces-
sions from a railway company, removed
their works. Shortly afterward half the
place was to let, and the windows of
many of the houses were boarded up
London Tit Bits
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1t is like a man who is tried by a court
martial and convicted. He may not
relish the findings of the court, and he
makes an appeal against the execution
of the sentence. So far as Brazil and
the United States are concerned, the
Spanish protest, if made, will have no
effect on the transaction.
The plans of the war department for
offensive and defensive operations, in
volving the use of the entire standing
army and the possible enlistment of
many regiments of recruits, are being
executed with a steadiness and rapidity
which plainly evince the governments
determination not to be found wanting
in the seVerest emergency
The reorganization of the great mill
tary departments of the country, which
was ordered last Friday, has been fol-
lowed quickly by the perfection of the
plans to move troops to the Atlantic
seaboard. Plans have been made in the
office of the adjutant general looking to
the movement of large portion of the
army. Tents and camp equipage have
been sent to several military posts to be
used by regiments on their arrival in
the east, where they will be situated in
many cases without the shelter and ac-
commodations afforded by permanent
barracks
confidential order was sent to the
commanders of several army posts, ar
ranging for the simultaneous movement
thence of infantry and cavalry troops
in accordance with a prearranged cipher
signal to be sent by telegraph.
Commanders of the military posts gem
orally have been instructed to make such
preparations for leaving their present
stations as will facilitate the prompt
moving of troops whenever the order
may come. Arrangements have been
made with various railroad lines for
transporting troops and their camp
utensils and accoutrements.
Nearly all other infantry and cavalry
commands are to be brought east, also,
at the first sign of hostilities Atlanta
Will probably be the principal rendez-
Vous, on account of it's splendid railway
facilities, which will permit the troops
to be sent without delay to the places
where they are most needed.
In addition to the arrangements per-
fected for the immediate movement of
the troops mentioned the war depart
ment has determined on the assignment
of infantry and cavalry troops in Texas
to gulf ports. Key West and Tampa will
be points for the concentra-
ton of large bodies of military, because
of the facilities there for taking them to |
Cuba quickly. Very few troops of cav |
airy and companies of infantry will be
left in the west.
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BRAZIL CONSENTED.
Parted With the Warships In the Yard
uf the Armstrong;


Washington, March 15.-The stars and
stripes will be raised to the masthead
of the two cruisers ordered of the Arm
strongs in Elswich, Eng, for the Brazil
ian government. The denial of the pur-
chase sent out Sunday was made with
a reservation-the deal had not been con-
summated. All difficulties in the way
of requirement were swept away Mon
day, when the Brazilans assented to the
sale, which was completed without de-
lay and to the dismay of the representa-
tives of Spain, who had also made a bid
The price is not stated.
The Amazonas and her sister shin
the admiral Brou, are protected
cruisers of 5000 tons displacement each
They are built of steel. sheated with
wood, and coppered. Protection is af-
forded by 3-inch steel deck, extending
from stem to stern, over the machinery,
boilers and magazines, at the height of
the water line. These vessels are $50
feet 10 inches long, 40 feet 9 inches beam
and II feet draught. The armament
consists of six 6-inch, four 4.7-inch, ten
z.2-inch and four IA Armstrong rapid
fire guns, four Maxim machine guns
and three tornedo tubes. The 6-inch
guns are arranged to fire three ahead
and three astern. The engines develop
more than 1900 horsepower, giving a
speed to the Amazonas of 20.5 knots.
The coal supply at load draught is $50
tons, sufficient to carry her at moder-
ate rate of steaming a distance of about
5000 miles
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The administration, looking forward
not only to the settlement of the Maine
incident, which is regarded as second
airy, but to the far more important set
Element of the Cuban question, has not
only been making all possible prepara-
lions for possible hostilities, but has
not neglected the obvious duty of get
ting at the real feeling and purpose of
the Sagasta ministry.
1t is possible now to say that the as
surances received on this score, not
only from Minister Woodford, but from
Mr.. Polo, who has been talking with
members of the cabinet since his for
NAL reception by the president, are of
reassuring character They indicate
that the Spanish government does not
propose to bubble or quarrel over the
Maine incident, but wishes to see it set
tied satisfactorily, and if the report of
our court shows conclusively that Spain
ought to make reparation, the admins
tration expects to see her do so.
AS to what is to follow in the way of
propositions to settle the general Cuban
question, the administration can only
sound the Spanish government in a gem
eral way because the president does
not as yet know himself what shape
these propositions may take, except that
he is looking forward to recognizing the
independence of Cuba with or without
the approval of Spain. 1t would be too
much to expect that at this stage the
Spaniards would admit the possibility
of agreeing to the recognition Of the in
dependence of Cuba, but it is known
that the Spanish government is already
willing to concede practically anything
short of absolute independence to Cuba,
or rather, to the United States for Cuba.
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Informal Recent.

Uneducated people sometimes have q
happy knack in coming to the point.
Here, for example, is story from the
Boston Herald:
Dan and Nose, neither of them noted
for erudition, were partners in an enter
prise which it is needless to specify.
One morning customer called to settle
a small bill and after banding over the
money asked for a receipt.
Nose retired to the privacy of an
inner room and after long delay re-
turned with slip of paper, ON which
were written these words:
"We've got our pay. Me and Dan. !"
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ENTERS A PROTEST.
Spain Objects to Brazil's Action In Sell
ing Warships.


ing Warships.
Washington, March ia report was
received at the navy department today
to the effect that Spain had entered a
protest to Brazil against the sale of the
latter's two warships to the United
States. 1t is impossible to secure veri-
fication of the report either at the de-
partment of state or the navy depart
ment, but Secretary Long says that
SPANS protest will have no effect upon
the transaction between Brazil and the
United States, which resulted in this
government receiving two valuable en-
gines of war.
Judge Advocate General Lemly, the
law officer of the navy department, says
there is nothing in international law to
prevent one nation from selling ships to
a friendly power, providing they can
agree upon satisfactory terms. Had
Spain been able to negotiate deal for
the purchase of the warships from Bra
iii, this government would have no legal
ground for protest. Spain may be dis
appointed because Brazil sold to the
United States and she may protest to her
hearts content. but it will avail nothing.
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HOPEFUL OF PEACE.
President Does Not Expect a
Clash With Spain.

Dons Looked to to Make Suitable Rep
aratiOn-American Action Dependent
on the Finding of the Court of Inquiry.
Washington, March 15.-President Nc
Kinley told a member of the cabinet
Monday that he believed that the present
situation would end peacefully and salts
factorily to this country, although he
could not foresee all the steps, and that
he had never had any other idea. This
expresses the best opinion here, where all
the war preparations" including the
purchase of the two Brazilian armored
cruisers, are regarded by those who are
we'll informed as preparations for pre-
venting war, and not preparations for
making war, and where it is well under
stood that this is the purpose of the
Spanish government in it's preparations.
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Wbv Austria Is Interested,

New York, March 16.-The Evening
Post prints a copyright dispatch from
London in which occurs the following:
THE general English comment on the
Vienna news that Emperor Francis
Joseph is leading crusade among the
continental powers on Spain's behalf is
that this was only to be expected from
the family ties, the queen regent being
an Austrian archduchess, while relig-
ious ties also encourage Austrian sym
pathy with Spain. Moreover, there is
the emperors well known dread of the
possible future consequences of Ameri-
can intervention in European affairs
All that is knewn in well informed
quarters here suggests that both the
Austrian and the German emperors
would go great lengths to prevent an out
break of war between America and
Spain"
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Il LEGAL. IT

PROBATE COURTS AND COURTS OF INsoL-
VENCY-BRADFoRD DISTRICT 1896.
Probate Courts and Courts of Insolvency
within and for said district will be holden the
ensuing year as follows:
brauiOIu-At j . Il Watson s office IN Brad
ford on the second Tuesday of every month.
West Faree-At the Eagle Hotel in West
Farlee on the last Saturday of May, July,
September and November.
Also At the Probate Office in Thetford on
the first Wednesday of every month.
Also at East Corinth on the third Thursday
of May, July and September.
S. M. GLEASON, Judge.
Thetford Centre, VT, April l, 1896.
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Views of WeyIer.

Madrid, March 14.-To an interviewer
General Weyler said THE present at
titude of most of our deputies is that
they don't favor war. They do favor
preparation for it, but it's declaration
must come from the United States.
Spain is not so poor as most of the world
thinks. When war money was called
for in SO everybody from the queen
regent to the beggar contributed so
generously that only one-third was ac-
cepted. We can repeat this.
Il have been accused of cruelty in my
military methods. 1 say it is more HUI
name to take effectual measures to finish
war than to have the agony prolonged
by milder measures
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THE SUN DIAL.

ION which was written, 1T mark only the
bright hours. u
mark the bright hours, and only the bright
dwell not in darkness, but ever in light;
l garner the sun sheaves and dream not of
night.
Fast, fast fades the brightness, the bloom O.
the years,
And life seeks the light while the darkness it
fears
TITS too swift for your signing, too sweet for
your tearsl
mark the bright hours. The shadow is cast
So soon on life's morning-the MONDAY is past.
Treasure light for the night-treasure light to
the last
Atlanta Constitution
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Modern Methods.

Diggs-I just finished reading an &C.
count of how they burned heretics at
the stake in ancient times. Such bar
barism would not be tolerated in this
enlightened age.
Biggs-No, indeed The modern
hereto is let off with a roast in the re-
ligious journals. Chicago News.
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ALMA CURTIS ESTATE.
cTATE of Vermont,
nigtriot Of Rrad ford &C

cTATE of Vermont,
- District of Bradford. SIS
In Probate Court held at Bradford in and
for said district on the Sth day of March,
A. D., 1893
Horace White Admr. of the estate of
Alma Curtis late of Topsham, in said dis
trict, deceased, makes application to said
court for license to sell all OF the real estate
of said deceased situated in this State repre-
senting that the sale thereof is necessary Tor
the purpose of the settlement of the estate
consent thereto being given in writing by all
the representatives in this state. WhereupOn
it is ordered by said court that application be
referred to a session thereof to be held at
probate office in said Thetford on the 26th
day of March, A. D., 1898, for hearing and
decision thereon; and it is further ordered
that all persons interested be notified hereof
by publication of notice of said application
and order thereon three weeks successiv ely
in the United Opinion newspaper pub b.
lished at Bradford in this state, and which
circulates in the neighborhood of those in
terested before said time of hearing, that
they may appear at said time and place, and
if they see cause object thereto.
By the Court, Attest.
q S. NJ. GLEASON, Judge.
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A Chestnut.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once told a
good story of friend who always car
ried in his pocket horse chestnut as a
protection against rheumatism, just the
same as other people wear shields and
other specifics. Emerson thus testifes
to the results i'll his friend case He
has never had the rheumatism since he
began to carry it, and indeed it appears
to have had a retrospective op,Iation-
for he never had ii beiule.
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ABIGAIL NJ. EAsTMAN's ESTATE.

- Bradford District SIS.
In Probate Court held at Bradford in said
district, on the Sth day of March, A 1898.
Geo. M. Dearborn Admr. of the estate
OF Abigail Eastman late of Corinth in said
district deceased, presents his administra-
ton account for examination and allowance
and makes application for decree IMPARTIAL
distribution and partition ofthe estate of said
deceased. Whereupon it is ordered by said
Court that said account and said application
be referred to a session thereof to be held at
Br dford in said district, on the 18th
day OF April, A D. 1898, for hearing and dects-
ion thereon. And it is further ordered that
notice hereof be given to all persons inter-
ested by publication of the same three
weeks successfully in the United Opin-
ion newspaper published at Bradford
that they may appear at said time and
place and show cause, if any they may have
why said account should not be allowed and
such decree made.
By the Court, Attest.
81 S. NJ. GLEASON, Judge.
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IN Chancery, Orange County, June Term, 1898.
\ Hosea Mann, Inspector of Finance VS.. Brad
ford Savings Bank & Trust Co. James B. Hale,
Receiver
To the Honorable, the Chancellor.
The undersgntd d, James B. Hale, Receiver, rep
resents that the said Bradford Savings Bank and
Trust Company has a large number of creditors,
and that it is for the best interests of said Bank,
its creditors and stockholders, to now have time
limited for the creditors to present and rove their
claims against said Bank, by an order of the
Chancellor in accordance with the provisions Cd
section 1000 of Vermont Statutes.
Wherefore your petitioner prays that the Chan
scellor by his order shall limit the time for Gre d
stors of said Bradford Savings Bank and Trust
Company to present and prove their claims against
it, and if not proved within the time thus limited,
they shall not share in the assets of said Bradford
order shall specify the tune and manner of giving
notice thereof to said creditors.
Dated at Bradford this asth day of February,
1893. lanes B. Hale, Receiver.
John II. Watson Solicitor.
State of Vermont, Orange County, IS. At
Bradford, in said county, this 18th day of Febru-
airy, 1893, James B. Hale, Receiver, personally
appeared and made oath to the truth of the facts
set forth In the foregoing petition by him sub
scribed. John H. Watson, Master IN Chancery.
IN Chancery, Orange County, June Term, 1893.
\ Hosea Mann, ms pector of Finance VS., Brad.
ford Savings Bank Trust Co. James B. Hale,
Receiver.
Upon consideration of the facts set forth in the
foregoing petition of James b. Hale, Receiver,
verified BY oath, it is hereby ordered that the
creditors of the Bradford Savings Bank x trust
Company shall present their respective claims to
said receiver, James B. Hale, at the banking
rooms of the Bradford Savings Bank & Trust Co.
in Bradford in said Orange County, and prove
the same before the first day of June, 1885, and
that any claims presented to the receiver, against
the Bradford Savings Bank e. Trust Company,
shall, upon request of said receiver or of any per-
son interested In the funds of said Bradford Saw
ings Bank & Trust Company, be submitted to the
chancellor for the purpose of proving the same
at such time and in such manner as the cha eel
lor orders; and that claim not proved within
the time herein limited, shall share in the assets
of said Bradford Savings Bank & Trust Com
pany; and it is further ordered that notice of this
order be given to the creditors of said Bradford
Savings Bank Il Trust Company, by publishing
the foregoing petition with this order thereon for
three weeks successfully in the United Opinion
news paper published weekly at Bradford in said
county, the first of which publications shall be on
the nth day Of March. 1898; and notice mailed 20
each creditor within the present month OF March.
Done at Chambers at Montpelier in the county
of Washington, this first day of March, 1895.
James NJ Tyler, Chancellor.
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Is Going 20 Havana.

Madrid, March 16-The Spanish tor
pedo flotilla, which sailed from Cadiz on
Sunday last ostensibly for Porto Rico,
will only call there for provisions, and
will afterwards leave for Havana A
second fiotilla will soon start for Cuban
waters, and will probably be stationed
at Porto Rico.
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A plant grows in Assam which has
the peculiar property, when chewed, of
temporarily neutralizing the sense of
taste as regards sweet and bitter things.
The Hindoos claim that the plant is an
antidote to snake bite.
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ASTHMA.

hSufferers from this annoying affection
ave used many so-called remedies
without permanent or even temporary
relief, until they have given up hope of
ever being cured, and consequently al
low themselves to suffer untold misery
while thousands are being positively
cured by