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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08
PAYING BILLS.
Grocers and Butchers Closing Up
Banquet Affairs.

The grocers and butchers held a short
business meeting last evening at Web
er's hall The various bill which have
been handed If to the association up
to the present time. We're carefully
looked over and audited. and checks
drawn for the amounts The checks can
be procured from Mr.. W F. Weber, at
No 431 Kansas avenue. The amount of
the bills audited last evening amounted
to the sum of 1923. 81.
The bills which have not yet been
presented will be audited as soon as
they are sent in to the seer etary. Mr..
Vim. Dransfeld. 1t is urgent that all
outstanding bills be sent in as quickly
as possible, so that the banquet bust
ness may be closed up at once. a re-
was a large amount of food left after
the giving of the banquet and that it
had been distributed betW cen Mrs.
Thorpe, for the poor. Ingleside, the Or
phans' home, and Salvation army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08
NOTHING IN 1T.
Story of Trouble Between Russia
and Japan Started in England


New York, Nov S-A special to the
Herald from Washington says:
Publications by the English press re
porting prospective trouble between
Russia and Japan over COrea are be
Heved by diplomats here to have been
inspired for the purpose of distracting
attention from the war in South Africa.
No official confirmation of these re
ports can be obtained at the state de-
partment, the Russian embassy or the
Japanese legation. At the information
department of each Office the situa-
tiOn in COrea is declared to be peaceful
and the relations between Russia. and
Japan most friendly in character. With
the COrean and Chinese questions tenn
pOrarily put aside in European poll
tics, the attention of continental Eu-
rope is riVeted upon the war between
Great Britain and the Beers. There is
the continent for the Transvaal and
While Count CaSsini. the Russian am
bassadOr, says that interference is not
contemplated 1t IS apparent that Great
Britain is carefully watching the inter
national situation for the purpose of
nipping in the bud any plan purpOsing
intervention or compensation.
The diplOmatists suggest that the re-
ports of trouble between Russia and
Japan over Corea We're circulated at
this time for the purpose of drawing
situation Certainly, they declare there
is no foundation for them Recently
the local Russian officials at Mesampho,
COrea, obtained from the local aurhOri-
ties a certain concession for Russian
subjects when the port was declared
open and a foreign settlement site was
established. When this matter was
brought to the attention of the COrean
government the act of its subOrdinateS
was repudiated- It is said here that
this was the only question about which
any feeling existed and its settlement
has taken from the field of negotiation
between the Russian and japanese gov
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08
RESIGNED THE HONOR.
EIgen Rowe Had an Experience as
Dorothy Morton's Husband


Elgen Rowe. the divorced husband of
Dorothy Morton, the comic opera star,
was in Topeka Tuesday night. Mr..
Rowe is now managing the tour of Paul
Gilmore and his company in THE Mus
keteers''
Mr.. Rowe secured a divorce from
Miss Morton about three years ago.
They We're married in 1892, while Miss
Morton was singing with the Wilbur
Opera company. Mr.. Rowe recognized
that his wife possessed an unusual or
cratic voice, and insisted that she give
up the stage for a year and devote the
time to vocal culture. She spent the
year in Rochester, N. Y, under the
tutOrship of an excellent instructor, and
the next season took the principal part
with the Whitney Opera company, sue
ceeding Marie Tempest. 1t was while
with the Whitney company that Mr..
Rowe brought suit for divorce.
Mr.. Rowe formerly held a position on
the Detroit Free Press Not long ago
he engaged in matrimony for the sec
ond time, marrying a wealthy Detroit
lady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08
WORK ON SYMPTOM TUNNEL

TFron the London Globel
Travellers as well as engineers viii De
interested to learn that the great work
of boring the Simplon tunnel is progress
sing favorably. New geological strata
have been reached by the WOrkmen. who
have hitherto encountered only gneiss,
with layers Of feldsPar, but have now
come to a layer of limestone. The 800
men in Switzerland have achieved "A mile
Of tunnelling on that side while at the
Italian end, where thousand men are
engaged. twO-thirds Of mile have been
accomplished. The tunnel VIII allow the
passage from Italy to Switzerland to be
made at more than thousand feet below
the level of the St GOthaTd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08
GOOD FOR o. T. CRAWFORD.
Manager EIgen Rowe Says His Circuit
of Theaters Is Admirably Handled.

EIgen Rowe, manager OF Paul Gilmore
in The Musketeers." took occasion to
compliment Mr.. o. T. Crawford of this
city on the management of the new
Crawford circuit. He said that the
booking of shows at the various towns
in the Crawford circuit is better han
died than is true of the majority of
the circuits in different parts of the
country.
NJ o. T Crawford IS in sole charge
of the new circuit. and IS working hard
to make it one of the strongest in the
United States Ultimately, it viii prob
ably extend from the Missouri river to
the Pacific coast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08

when Erwin reached for his revolver
she shot him in the abdomen before he
could draw his weapon. Erwin cOrrOb-
grated this story in his statement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08
HAWAII TO LEAD
In Application of Wireless Telegraph
to Business Uses.

Chicago, Nov 8.-Frederick J. Cross
of Honolulu, has arrived in Chicago
from New York, where he has compile
ted arrangements with the owners of
the Aarconi system for its establish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Portland. Ore, Nov. S.--Major General
Nelson A Miles, commanding the United
States army. inspected the Qualifications
at the mouth Of the Columbia river He
was rendered q banquet by the Astoria
Chamber of Commerce and later he was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08

the guest of the Portland Chamber of
Commerce at a banquet General Niles
will go from here to San Francisco.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08

Vancouver. B. c.. Nov. S-A 1000 gold
brick, the largest ever melted in Cana
dian mine, is to be sent down from the
KOOtenai district shortly. This year
district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08

vancouver. B. @, Nov. 8.-The SLOGAN
strike is still unsettled. NOn-uniOn miners
being brought in his caused the strike, to
spread to several hitherto unaffected dis
tricts A. W. McCune Of Salt Lake, viii,
it is said, make a test case of the eight
hour law which caused the trouble.
VANCOUVER B: G. Nov. SSs-The bark
Katie F. Troop is loading 100000 special
" selected timber here for the Cramps
Of Philadelphia, to be used in building
Ships.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
A FOX IN A FOLD.
Reynard Paid with His Life for His
Attempt to Get a Feast of
Young Lamb.

Sheep do not often go fox-hunting,
BUT when the fox comes to them, events
may take the course they did on the
Denton farm at East Somerset, New
York. The owner of the farm brought
large dead fox to town, says the
World, and offered to 'treat" if anyone
could tell in 20 guesses how the fox
had met his death.
Of course, everybody gave it up, and
then Mr.. Denton reminded them that
ne is a sheep-raiser, and has large
flock of Dorsets, of which he is espe-
tially proud. With their large horns
these sheep make a formidable show
ing, and they are so cross that it is
as much as strangers life is worth to
venture across field in which they are
pastured. Last summer a tramp was
overtaken by Dorset, and would have
been killed but for Mr.. Denton's inter-
vention.
Of late score of lambs have been
born, and the bucks are more .bellig-
erent than ever. One night Denton was
about retiring when he heard loud
bICollhS III lhC IOld hCdI VIC iOuSC,
and believing that dogs were around
and perhaps attacking the lambs, has
tened outdoors to investigate.
For a time the bucks refused to al
low him to enter the fold, but pres
emily they Gained down, and he went
in. There lay a fox, recently killed
and bleeding from numerous wounds.
A horn of one of the sheep had entered
reynard's body back of the shoulder
blade, and then his life had been tram
pied out. The fox's hide showed more
than 40 holes made by the sharp hoofs
and horns.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
DONE BY MACHINERY.
LuXuries as Well as Necessities Have
Been Multiplied by In
VentiOn.

By the aid of improved machinery,
that which at the beginning of the CEN
fury was the luxury of the rich is now
the comfort of the poor, says the Engi-
neerlng Magazine. Material and labor
are no longer the sole factors of produc-
ton. Assisted by machinery anG tools,
mans labor now converts the raw ma
teriaIs of nature into the useful, nee
essary, and in some cases, even the ar
tistic paraphernalia Of civilization with
one-third of the eXertion formerly nee
essary. Even Russia, the latest com
petitor in the industrial field, has, with
the aid of machinery, more than
doubled, since 1861, the individual out
put of those employed in her manufac-
tories. In the course of 90 years (1S70-
1900 the number of persons employed
in the American manufactures has
more than doubled, and the value of
their product has nearly trebled. l
mention these facts to show the i'm
portant part that machinery now plays
in modern industrial warfare. Few
realize or stop to think how much we
are indebted to the inventor and ma
chine designer for the comforts, lux
uries and necessities of our daily life.
The loom which weaves our silks, cot
tons and woolens; the harvesting ma
chimes which reap our corn; the ma
chinery which forms our bricks and
mixes our mortar; the printing ma
chine which makes the penny daily
possible. Our food, clothing, furniture,
literature. all are produced on machin-
cry which il is practically impossible to
make or maintain without the modern
machine tool.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
SHIPS CHINA AND SILVER.
There Is Enough of Ii to supply All
the Residents of a Good
Sized Town.

Helen C. Candee gives an interesting
view of Housekeeping on an Ocean
Steamship" in Ladies Home Journal,
thus describing the vessels china and
silver: There are thousand spoons
for soup. the same number for tea, and
half that number for coffee and dessert.
The heaviest fork drawer contains a
thousand dinner forks, and next to that
is the same number of breakfast forks.
For raw oysters there are 300 forks pro-
vided, and for fish about the same num-
Der. Knives follow closely the same
figures, 1000 each of dinner and break
fast sizes, 600 for dessert, and 260 for
fruit. The pantry is lined with shelves
which are fitted with racks in which
stand high piles of china, secure from
the motion of the stormiest sea. The
plate-warmer holds many of them, but
there are enough left to stock a china
shop. There are I,20O cups and saucers
for coffee, tea and bouillon; there are
over 400 water tumblers, and other
glasses in smaller proportion. The
plates of the popular size number 2,2oO,
and the soup plates are only $50"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
AN UNCUT DIAMOND.
As Large as a Hickory Nut and Worth
Nearly One Hundred Thou
sand Dollars.

A New York jeweler the other day
brought out small package no larger
than hens egg which was wrapped up
in a common piece of white paper.
Undoing it he showed what appeared to
be yellowish white pebbles about the
size of large hickory nut, says the Sun
of that city.
"a mere trife," he said, "but worth
nearly 100000"
The onlooker was amazed and took it
in his hand. you mean $780, he sug-
gested.
mo, 100000. 1t is South African
diamond that is still uncut, and there
are about $50 carats in it. AT the rate
of $50 carat this would make more
than 100000, but, of course, the larger
stones are more valuable. / suppose
this is the largest diamond ever brought
to this country. The name of the inn
porter? That's a secret which we are
not allowed to divulge."
Now that uncut diamonds are free of
duty the importations are on much
larger scale than heretofore. The one
in question has been considerably
ground down, but had no polish or
sparkle to suggest that it was a dia-
mond at all.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
STUDENTS WITHOUT MONEY.
If They Are Afable and Energetic
They Can Readily Make Their
Way Through College.

There is no reason why students
food should cost him one cent, writes
Jesse Lynch Williams, advising young
men how to work their way through
college, in Ladies' Home Journal.
Every freshman has just as much right,
and certainly has as good chance, to
get up an eating club among his own
classmates as the upper classmen have.
A club means merely tableful of eight
or sixteen more or less congenial fell
lows, generally classmates. The man
who runs the club does not cater for it.
In most cases he does absolutely moth
ing except gather the crowd together
at the beginning of the year, and in re-
turn he receives his own meals free of
charge. When he has once started it
man can generally run a club all
through his course. AS for clothes,
student ought to be able to earn them
during the long three months of sum-
mer. The present generation does not
wait on table at summer hotels, but it
frequently manages the hotels or acts
as clerks. Many hotel Proprietors pre-
fer college men because they are apt
to be gentlemen, and they are good at
organizing athletic games, etc. Other
students act as bathing masters, or
managers of boat houses, or corre-
spondents of city papers at watering
places, or even as professional enter
tainers at summer hotels where young
men are scarce,
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
WHY SOME FOLKS ARE POOR.
Curious Facts That Have Been
Brought to Light in a New
England Town.

The statistics relating to the care of
the poor are often interesting. In
certain New England city, says writer
for the New York Times, they allow the
people who need the city's aid three
dollars a week, and they order at GER
tain stores what they please UP to that
sum weekly, and the bills are sent to
the city auditor. The auditor, as he
reads the bills, is greatly enlightened
as to the diet of the poor. There are
frequently raisins, citron and things
that are not usually supposed necessary
to support life, but one poor woman
broke the record when in the bill for
one weeks supplies it was found that
&c pies had been purchased. That, at
ten cents pie, exhausted $3.50 of the
city's money and there remained 40
cents to supply the family with neces-
sites. Another poor woman had pur-
chased at the expense of the city pair
of corsets.
81 don't know that believe in dress
reform for women" commented the
auditor as he read that item, but it
seems to me that this creates prece-
dent that may make it rather hard on
the CITY," However, being a man. the
auditor could hardly be expected to
know what are the necessities of life
for woman.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
A STRANGE AFFECTION.
1t Crops Ont Amongst Society Ladies
Who Have the Five O'Clock
Tea Habit.

There is nervous disease-the re-
suit of the five o'clock tea habit-which
aff1icts many women, says the New
York Herlad. Said one bright woman,
lately:
II never remember finishing a SEN
tence which / have commenced ct one
of these functions. Before | have a
chance to round it off l am interrupted,
dragged away or confronted with new
face to whom l am introduced. | begin
again, to have the experience dupli-
Gated again and again. have the same
trouble with my cups of tea. put them
down half emptied to greet some new
arrival, to find them whisked away, and
each one repeats the history of its pre-
decessor.
81 leave these bun worries with a
trail of unfinished phrases and I'M
drunk cups of tea behind me. l go
home in a thoroughly unkempt frame
of mind, with tendency to leave off
everything undertake and start some
thing fresh. 1t is really disease, sort
of five-o'clock-tea paralysis. Just lis
ten at any of these receptions and you
will agree with me. The women talk in
spasmodic, staccato gasps. You never
get the point of story or the telling
point of biography. Everyone has her
eve on the door for the new arrival, who
may prove more interesting or desira-
BILE than the one she is talking to-
Pardon me- seems to be the excuse
for every form of conversational rude
ness. I believe this form of nervous
ness is one of the many symptoms of
the national unrest, or lack of poise,
of which foreigners so bitterly com
plain"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
CENTENARIANS IN SPAIN.
the Southern Provinces and
Steadily Increasing.

Would you like to live to the age of
latest authority on the subject of
longevity, you should spend the re-
mainder of your days in the south of
Spain.
According to statistics which have
just been published in Madrid, Spain is
wonderfully rich in centenarians. The
compiler, indeed, estimates that there
are 25 centenarians to every 1,000,0G0
inhabitants. Moreover, this proportion
has been constantly increasing during
the last half century. In 1857 there
were IL centenariaus to every 1,000,C0O;
in 1867 there were 1897, and in 1877 the
number rose as high as 29.S1. For a
few years after 1877 the proportion
was not as great as usual, but since 1889
it has recovered almost all of its lost
ground.
Centenarians thrive better in some
parts of the country than in others. In
Andalusia there are more than any
where else. In Malaga the proportion
is something like 100 to every 100000
of inhabitants. On the other hand,
there is not single centenarian in the
provinces of Soria, Alava and Teruel.
Broadly speaking, it may be said that
centenarians flourish best in the coun-
try south of the Sierra Moreno, the pro-
portion there being approximately
from 80 to 60 to every 100000 of in
habitants. In the north, on the con-
trary, it is very rare, nay, almost impos-
sible, to find single centeuarian.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
soPHRoNIA SHORTS WILL.
QTATE OF VERMONT.

- District of Bradford, IS.
In probate court held at Thetford in said
district on the 18th day of June, A. D.. 1893
An instrument purporting to be the last
a Thetford in said district deceased, being
presented by H. P. Cummings the executor
therein named therein for probate.
1t is ordered by said court that all per-
sons concerned therein be notified to ap-
pear at a session of said court to be held at
probate office in Thetford on the LIST day of
July, A. D., 1899, at 10 a. m. and show cause
if any ey may have against the probate OF
said will; for which purpose it is further or
dered that a copy of the record of this order
be published three weeks successfully in the
United Opinion, newspaper printed at
Bradford previous to said time appoint ed
for hearing.
By the Court, Attest,
IS S. GLEASON, Judge.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
EDGAR P. CUMMINGS ESTATE.

cTATE of Vermont,
- District of Bradford. IS
In Probate Court held at Thetford, in and
for said district on the Goth day of june
A. D., 1899.
Scion X. Berry, Admir-. of the estate of
Edgar p. Cummings late of Thetford in said
district, deceased, makes application to said
court for license to sell all OF the real estate
of said deceased situated in this state, except
homestead representing that the sale there
of is necessary for the purpose of the paying
debts Whereupon it is ordered by said court
thai application be referred to a session
thereof to be held at the probate office in
Thetford on the 18th day of July A. D. 1898
for hearing and decision thereon; and
it is further ordered that all persons in
terested be notified hereof by publication of
notice of said application and order there
on three weeks successfully in the United
Opinion a newspaper published at Brad
ford in this state and which crculates in the
neighborhood of those interested 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.
81 SAMUEL NJ. GLEASON, Judge.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
THOMAS S. LADD,s ESTATE.
g. TATE of Vermont,
n1H u 4 E....l IAsc.A -

@TATE of Vermont,
- Bradford District IS.
In Probate Court held at Bradford in said
district on the 18th day of June, A D 1899
John n. Hodge administrator of the es-
tate of Thomas Ladd, late of Corlnth,
in said district deceased, presents his admin
istration account for examination and
allowance and makes application for de-
cree of distribution and partition of the
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 Bradford in said district
on the 18th of July, A D 1899, for hearing and
decision thereon. And it is further ordered
that notice hereof be given to all persons
interested by publication of the same three
weeks successfully in the United Opinion a
newspaper published at Bradford previous
to said time appointed for hearing, that they
may appear at said time and place and show
cause if any they may have why said ac-
count should not be allowed and such decree
made.
By the Court Attest,
35 S. NJ. GLEASON, Judge.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last IS years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o., Walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, U.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimoni-
ais sent free.
Sold by druggists, price 75c. per bot tie,
Halls family Pills are the best.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
II LEGAL. II

PROBATE COURTS AND COURTS OF INsoL-
VENCY-BRADFoRD DISTRICT 1885.
Probate Courts and Courts of Insolvency
within and for said district will be holden the
ensuing year as follows:
Bradford - At Hotel Low in Bradford
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 TheCford 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.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30

The Saltwater (Minn.) Prison Mirror
tells of an Irishman at McCook, Neb.,
who went out to celebrate the other
night and returned at three in the
morning only to find that his family
had also been enlarged by three in the
meantime. He looked at the clock AM
then at the kids. and remarked: Its
dom'd glad o; didn't return at eight"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
Dodg ng the Contribution Box.

A boy accompanied his father to
church and when the collection was
taken up the youngster closely watched
the performance. When the collectors
made their rteurns the boy said to his
father; Half of them got in for moth
ing"
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30
Home
reatr11er1t

Means just as careful pro-
fessional attention and adj
vice as if you came to our
office. Send us a full state
ment of your disease and
we will tell YOU honestly
whether we think we can
cure you. But don't give,
up because you've tried
nearly everything. No
drugs with