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Tarllam al N,h1rg Wake, IN Al.
peal 10 In sian.
1T Is REVOLT TIONARI
He Entirely I. blame FOR Par
Lament Not H.ing Fro
daeiiye of Results.

Viborg, Finland, july 24.-The cur
lain dropped Monday On the final act
Of the drama OF Russia's first parIia.
ment when, under the spur Of the
threat OF Governor Rechaiberg to use
military force to end the session. and
with troops already converging on
Hotel Relvediere where the meeting
was held. the assembled members of
the lower house. is6 In number, hur.
riedly adopted and signed an addrc -
TO the people. which liz thoroughly rev
olutionary In Its nature. elected per
petual Legislative committee. headed by
Prince Paul Dolgoroukoff. vice presi-
dent OF the house, to carry on the work
of liberation and adjourned amidst
characteristic Russian embracing and
kissing
A few members, including President
! Mouromtsof NJ Petrunkevitch and
Count Heydon. returned to ST. Peters
burg by evening train. The Constitu.
tional Democratic consorts stated they
would go to st. Petersburg in a body,
but many OF the Radical members,
rearing tHtlF arrest On tHelf ARRIVAL at
the capital will remain for the pres
ent in Finland. or return by rounda bout
routes.
The address, which bears a remark
| able similarity to the manifesto fran
ed by the Council of Workmen last
November which landed its authors
| and editors of eight ST Petersburg
! newspapers in cells of the Fortress of
St Peter and st Paul. strikes the gov
eminent in it's most vulnerable point
by declaring that the administration
and not parliament, is responsible for
the delay in settlement of the agrari-
an question, and by proclaimlng a ces-
sion OF payment of taxes and Of IN /
sation of payment of taxes and mill
fary service and reputation of future
loans
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SUBMERGED IN LAKE.
Friehtful Calamity In Which Several
Persons Are Drowned.

Spokane. Wash, July 24.-The en-
CINE expresscar and smoking car OF
the Great Northern fast train, west
bound. are submerged in the deep
waters of Diamond lake, one and one
half miles west of Camden, about
twenty miles west of Spokane. Nine
men who went down in the smoking
car were drowned, and also engine
crew When the train came through
the tunnel the rails spread, and the
engine plunged down siSty-foot en-
bankment into the lake, followed by
the express car and smoking car The
remainder of the train kept the track,
The wreck Caaoishrdleutaoincmfwyp
the couplings remaining unbroken.
The wreck caught fire from illuminat'
ing gas. but the flames were extin-
guished one man in the day coach
was fatally injured by the explosion
of the gas tank.
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APPEAL TO PEOPLE,
Copies Of the Same Were Given Every
Set. PETERSBURG Newspaper,

st. Petersburg, July 24-The great
news Monday was the adoption of an
address to the people by the deputies
to parliament, assembled at Viborg,
the language of which, with its reyo-
lutkonary demands that the people
cease to furnish money and troops to
the government and repudiate further
loans, affords pretext enough for the
government to lodge it's authors in
the fortress If it feels strong enough.
| A rumOr was spread that this course
had been decided upon.
large crowd gathered at the Fin
I land station, where the deputies were
| expected to arrive but only "A few ap-
peared, and these were not mO1ested.
| and neither was there a popular dem
on stration. Among the arrivals were
President Mouromtseff and Ivan Pc
trunkevitch The former came on a
local train entirely unattended. He
was plainly downcast. and responded
to the salutation of the Associated
Press correspondent by the mere rails
ing of his hat, and hurried on to es
cape an interview
Mr.. PetrunkevitCh. filled with the
revolutionary spirit, claimed for the
CONSTITUTIONS democrats li-t Nltull
for the text of the appeal.
Copies of the appeal TO the peo0le
are in the hands OF all St. Petersburg
newspapers.
The dissolution of the Russian dou-
| ma by the imperial ukase brings Rus
/ STA face to face with what may prove
| to be the most stupendous revolution
! in the history of the country. The EN-
perors autoCratic act also brings down
/ the curtain temporarily. at least, on
! the late stand. and one Of the most
/ interesting attempts In history TO give
A national form OF repres entatiye gov
| erument
/ Judged nv It's positive achievements.
| the douma will not rank high as a
! Law making sssemblase, but as giving
voice to a peoples sense Of wrongs
It's brief existence has proved OF mo
/ msutous importance The circum
/ scribed nature of the douma's proceed
ines aud the dearth Of legislation that
might be OF benefit 10 RUSSIA may b,
attributed 10 two causes
Tho lack OF harmony among th'
strangely diverse elements that went
10 make up that body and the fuuda
mental iaW that might bee considrfr0
hy the parliament
The foumas one pigC" ut IvEiNla
ton that has become law "a th
appropris'ing s. 5000 oo" f'r Ibv Tr.lt
OF famine stricken pes-auts
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ENGtixE OVERTURNED.
Engineer Andrews Is Pinioned Under
Locomotive and Crushed TO Death.

Shreveport July 24-The engine of
local freight train No 30 on the Kan
sqs CITY southern was overturned in a
collision with Is bunch Of cattle Just
outside of the lu, wards here Mon
DAY The dead Frank Andrews. on
rino,r. 81 shreveport The injured
GeOrr, Motion fireman. ~ Shrev'
port
Andrews Was nipioued under the sn
zine and ta''E crushed ie was. Ia
point OF service. one of che oldest On.
elne,rs uu thie division of the Kansas
Citr Southern
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

The following announcements are
made, subject to the action OF the
Democratic Primary, July IS. 1906;
For Judge 10th Judicial District:
LEE HAWKINS.
G, c. GROCE.
For County Judge.
YANCY d. KEMBLE.
TOM SPENCER.
.
For County Clerk:
CHARLEY CROKER. r
BOB BURLESON.
JESSE PARKER.
JOHN NJ. LOGGINS.
For District Clerk:
ALVIN P KIDD.
AMI CAROTHERS.
CLINT sPALDING.
For County Attorney:
MAXIM SMITH, Reelection
JNO. D. McRAE.
For County Superintendent OF Pub
lie Instruction:
G. B. VIM.
For Tax Assessor:
j. N. McELROY.-Re- elect,on.
j. C. WILLIS.
JACK KILLEBREW.
For Tax Collector.
SIMP SPENCER, reelection.
For Sheriff:
w. II. FORBES.
TONY CROWELL.
c. A. MILLER.
J. w. KENNEDY.
]. P. MINNICK, reelection.
I. P DARDEN.
For Justice of the Peace Precinct 1
w. II. (WilD DAVIS.
NJ W M'KNIGHT.
For Commissioner Precinct I.
NJ D RUTHERFORD.
For Commissioner Precinct T.
w. A. WITHERSPOON
R. p. GRIMES
r. S. tRUFE) BYNUM.
ED LOWE
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UNDER PROTEST,

Manager Of Waco Team Dispiessed at
Decision OF Umpire.
In the Texas Baseball league game
at Dallas Monday Manager Hickey OF
the Waco club, displeased at decis
ion of Umpire Bailey, played the game
under protest The home team won
to ]. Hickey stated that his club
would participate in no more games
with Bailey as umpire
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Corsgcana. SAILS SEA heavy @int
visited the ,ofs.ekas l'aw,ii oH fieii
and a. a result .shfs tsfrirks ~sfr
leytieA FEB ft. Erognt asa fAr feai
deues 90 Crs,a sgrBgneii pros a frofn
tfs aHuHAtaHu hlwka
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American League


Chicago. :; Philadelphia, 0; Phila-
delphia, ); Chicago, o.
Washington, 3; St Louis, ., thirteen
innings.
Boston. 3 Cleveland, \.
New York, 4; Detroit, :.
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South Texas League.

Lake Charles, 10; Austin ?; Aus
tin 4 Lake Charles. .
San Antonio. 6: Houston. T.
Galveston. s; Beaumont s.
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BARLEY Bouuht.

Montgomery. Ala. July 24.-The
Montgomery Baseball club bought the
release of Pitcher BARLEY from the
Philadc 1phia American league club.
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NINETEEN INNINGS.
sort Worth ard ciaborre Could Me-
secure nur.

The game at Fort Worth Monday
league club and Waco consisted Of
nineseen innings and 9as stopped ny
darkness. MOI a run sAA scored pa.
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National LEAGUE.

Brooklyn. 4 Chicago, 3.
Pittsburs Z; New York. /.
Boston, s. St. Louis, 8
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pree, for Fort Worth, and Dickson, for
Cleburne. were the pitchers Nine
hits were secured Off Dupree and six
off Dixon
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PITCHED GREAT BALL.
Former Fort Worth Twirler an ENIGMA
to New Orleans

In the Southern Baseball 'eague
game at Nashville Monday Pitcher
Buchanan was an enigma to New Or
leans that club failing to score. Nash
vile got one run.
Atlanta, 3; Shreveport, /
Little Rock, 3; Birmingham l.
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"The Curies extracted their radium
from pitchblende," said a scientist,
land there is much less radium in
pitchblende than there Is gold in the
sea. Why, then, shouldn't the seas in
exhaustible gold supply be wrested
from the waves?
"a Baptist minister came near en-
riching himself with an electrical proc
ess for drawing the gold from the sea
water. He formed a company with
capital of $4,000 and put up a plant
to deal with 10000 tons of water
day, expecting therefrom a weekly net
profit of $4,000.
"But unfortunately, though every ton
of sea water yielded cents worth of
gold, the expense of extracting the
gold was a little over cents for ev-
cry ton. Had it been a little under
untold wealth. But it was little over.
1--WE laugh at the idea of extracting
gold from sea water, just as we'd have
laughed ten years ago at the idea of
extracting from pitchblende such a
marvellous substance as radium, but
am sure the day will come when sea
water will yield up its radium in pay
ing quantities, and a few wise in
vestors will be unimaginably enriched"
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THE EARTH'S REAL DESERTS
They Are Made by Rain Rather Than
by the Lack of 1t.

|
Paul Combes shows in the Paris Cos
mos that the earth's real deserts are
made by rain rather than the lack of
it, or, rather, by the combination Of
abundant rain with a land surface in
capable of holding moisture long
enough to give plant life a chance.
The Sahara of Africa, the Bad Lands
of our western territories and the Ara
bian and central Asian deserts are by
no means destitute of life. They have
their fauna and flora, less numerous
and less varied than those of humid re-
gions and peculiarly adapted to their
environment, but they are rarely or
never destitute of some kind of life
for any considerable area.
The real deserts are found where the
rains are heavy and where the earth
surface is of such character that the
water at once runs away and the tenn
perature speedily evaporates what lit
tie moisture the surface may retain,
Such spots are really destitute of life.
The real deserts may be found on
small scale in most countries. Mr..
Combes cites one In the hills of French
Savoy the gorge whence issues the
torrent of st. Julian. The rainfall of
that region is heavy at certain seasons,
but the bare rocks and hard clays of
the surface are incapable under
southern sun of holding water long
enough for anything to grow or else
the plants that start are secured away
by the driving rains. There are many
other such spots among the denuded
hills of Spain.
The largest we'll known rain made
desert is, however, the clay hills of the
Mekran district of Persia. They are
cut and secured by torrential rains,
and they are lifeless, as the arid des-
erts are not. How they reached their
present state is unknown. AS long ago
as the time of Alexander the Great
they We're described as "a vast grave
yard, without the trace of a living
thing" 1t may be reasonably conjec-
tured, however, that the Mekran desert
is to some extent man made as well as
rain made-that man helped it to be-
come a region where rains have be-
come a sterilizer instead of fertilizer
This conjecture seems reasonable be-
cause similar conditions are reported
as beginning to appear in certain hill
districts of western Pennsylvania and
eastern ohio. The forest growth which
originally covered them has been cut
off and burned off so recklessly that,
though rains are abundant, all vegeta-
ton is disappearing from them. The
rains that fall upon them race away to
the adjacent river valleys, carrying
with their torrents the minute plants
and low forms of animal life which
create the soil in which other forms
would grow and leave nothing but the
bare and sterile EARTH Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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Beyond the Pale.

A friend of James Whitcomb Riley
tells of an occasion when the humorist,
who is. as rule, extremely averse to
social functions, was induced to attend
''literary" dinner in indianapolis Civ
en- i'm honor of a novelist of that city.
Riley had been told off to take in to
dinner the sister of his host. an excel
lent woman, though anything but ''lit-
erary."
The conversation touching upon the
beauties of Chaucer about whom a
certain set of the city was then cult
waiting a fad. a spirited discussion en-
sued, during which the bewildered sis
ter caught from time to time only the
name "Chaucer."
At last she whispered to Riley: "Who
Il this Mr.. Chaucer they're talking
about so much? Is he very popular In
society,""
Madam" solemnly responded Riley,
"that man did something that forever
shuts him out of society,""
"Heavensr exclaimed the worthy
dame. "And what was that?'
'IIe died several hundred years ago.
said Riley.-Harper's Weekly.
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First Tariff Makers.

If you turn to a map of Spain, you
will take note at its southern point and
running out into the strait of Gibraltar
of a promontory which from its posi-
ton is admirably adapted for corn
handing the entrance of the Medter-
ranean sea and watching the entrance
and exit of all ships. A fortress stands
upon this promontory, called now, as it
was called in the time of the Moorish
domination in Spain, Tariff. THE name
is of Moorish origin. 1t was the GUS
tom of the Moors to watch from this
point all merchant ships going into or
coming out of the midland sea and to
levy duties according to a fixed scale
on all merchandise contained therein.
This duty was called from the place
where it was levied "tari a." or tariff.
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GEORGE W. PHELPS ESTATE

CTATE OF VERMONT, In probats
- DIsTRICr OF BRADFORD, So Court held at
1hetford, in and for said District on the 18th day
of Oct , A. D. 1906.
F. Loci e Administrator Of the estate of
Geo. w. Pie p,. late Of Topsham in said district
deceased makes application TO said Court for IL
cense to sell all Of the real estate of said deceased
situated in this State. except homestead and
doweo, representing that the sale hereof is nee
essarv to pay debts.
Whereupon. it is ordered by said Court that
said application he referred to a session thereof
to be held at Fl ltel Low, in said Bradford
on the 18th day Of Nov, A. D., 1906, for hearing
and decision thereon, and il is further ordered,
that all persons interested be notified hereof by
publication If notice of said application and
order thereon three weeks successfully in The
United Opinion a newspaper published at Brad
ford in this State, and which circulates 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
S. M. GLEASON Judge.
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One of the most interesting places in
New York to study human nature is at
a counter in a photographers shop
where the customers come to get anna
teur photographs they have had devel-
oped and printed. The anxiety they
display to get the products of their
'shots" would seem to be out of all
proportion to the results, when you
catch a glimpse of them. and their dis
appointment if the prints are not ready
is almost as keen. apparently. as If
some important business transaction
had fallen through. And when they do
get the prints their faces are even
more interesting. The satisfaction of
these amateur photographers over set
of fairly good pictures is absolutely
idiotic, and their dismay at lot Of
failures is tragic. The frankness OF
these exhibitions is not the least inter
esting phase Of the whole thing. New
York Press.
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Waiting Mice.

Waiting mice come from Japan.
They are little mice, sometimes black
and white, sometimes brown and white,
colored in patches like a calico horse.
They are called waltzing mice because
under some conditions they keep per-
petually going round and round. Place
pair of Waiting mice in a glass
globe and put the globe in the light
and the mice will go to sleep, but put
the globe in a darker place and one or
both of the mice will run round and
round within it almost necessarily and
with surprising speed. Waiting mice
sell for SLIGO a pair. They are bought
to amuse chldren.-New York Sun.
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QUEER LOVEMAKlNG.
A South American Bird Which Wins
IT'S Mate by Dancing.


There is a bird in South America that
makes love with its feet. 1t is a hand
some creature, but walks clumsily, and
the only sound it can utter is a hoarse
cluck. 1t dances, however, in a way
that wins admiration from the females
of it's sex, though it's antics only serve
as an incentive to laughter to human
beings who see them.
This bird, known as the cock of the
rock, lives in the northern mountainous
portion of South America. 1t is about
the size of large chicken.
The entire bird-body, head wings
and tails blood red in color, with the
exception of the tail feathers, which
have narrow band of brown across
them near the ends which are ii Dped
with buff. On the head is u crest Of
feathers like great red ball, which
contracts or expands at the pleasure Of
its owner
When the mating season comes sew
en- to ten males seek some secluded
ground and clear it of any sticks,
stones or leaves, stamping down the
dirt till it is hard and level.
Then they call the females, who
stand at the edges of this novel arena.
One at time the males then perform
a most curious dance. Each dancer
will first strut up and down few
times and then, to the apparent delight
of the rest, commence to caper around
in an extremely ludicrous manner,
spreading his tail and wings, putting
up his crest, bowling to the others and
at the same time keeping up hopping
gait until he is exhausted.
When all the males have dapced each
female will choose mate, and the
happy pairs depart to begin housekeep-
inc
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ESTATE OF J. HENRY METCAIF. I=
cTATE OF VERMONT,

d.
- District Of Bradford, So
In Probate court, held at Thetford in and for
said District on the 9Th day of Nov. A D 1906
An instrument .purporting to be the last Will
and Testament of
j. Henry Metcalf, late If Oorirth.
in said district, deceased being presented
to the Court by Chas. A. Metcalf the Fxecu-
tor named therein, for Probate II is ordered by
said Court. that all persons concerned therein he
notified to appear at session Of said Court 10 he
held at Hotel Low, in Bradford. on the
18th day Of Dec, A. D. 1906 ut 10 O'Clock in
they may have, against the Probate Of sid
will; for which purpose il is further ordered that
copy of the record Of this order he published
three weeks suocessiyyeIy in the United Gnnion
said time appointed for hearing
By the Court. Attest
S. M. GLEASON. Judge.
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ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS.
Each Part of the Larger ones Is
Made by Specialists.

Each Part of the Larger ones IL
Made by Specialists.
Artificial flowers were invented by
pious nuns. In the Italian converts
the affairs and shrines were up to the
end of the eighteenth century decorat-
ed with artificial flowers, laboriously
put together, of paper, parchment and
other stiff materials. In a Venetian
warehouse the most wonderful pro-
auctions of natural flowers are ex-
hibted in glass cases, and in many
brilliant colors, but the very scent of
the flowers has been stolen from ma
ture, for some of the artificial flowers
are stepped in the perfume distilled
from the flower which it represents.
Last century a Swiss invented ma
chine for cutting out the leaves and
petals, but it can only be used for the
smaller kinds, such as are wanted for
hyacinths, lilies of the valley and 9TH
er small flowers. In larger petals the
Irregularities of manual work are pre-
ferred to the stiff and correct forms
produced by machinery. This material
of which the petals are made is woven
in special factories. The scissors and
other tools used by the girls employ
ed as well as the presses in which the
veins are traced on the leaves are of a
shape specially adapted to the work
Each part Of flower is made by spe-
cialists. In one room. for instance,
only stalks of flowers and leaves are
made; in another, fruits and berries of
all kinds are cast if they are wax or
blown if made of glass. The clever
est workers are employed in making
blossoms of the single petals and bou-
quets, wreaths and garlands of the sin
gle lossoms.-Dundee Advertiser
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MARY f. EAsTMA.N's ESTATE.

cTATE OF VERMONT, In Probate
- DISTRICT OF BRLbFoRr, So Court held at
Thetford in and fo7' said District. on the 23d day
of Oct. A. D.. Pl06
Adelaide I. Lynch administrative
If the estate bf Mary F. Eastman late Of Brad
ford, W, in said District. deceased max es
application to said Court for license to sell
all Of the real estate of sold deceased situated
in this ST ate to wit all real estate and oil inter
est in all real estate, al representing thqithp sale
thereof is necessary for the purpose Of pay
ing d"hts and the settlement Of the estate.
Nhereupon, il is ordered nv said Court that
seid application he referred IN = session thereof
60 he held Mt Probate Office in said Thetfurd
on the 20th dav of Nov. A. D. 1905, for bearing
and decision thereon, and il is further ordered
that all persons interested he notified hereof nv
publication of notice Of said application snd
order thereon three weeks surcessi, civ in the
United OPINION. newspaper published at Rra,l-
ford in this State. and which circulstes in the
neghhorhOod Of those interested before said
time of hearing, that thew may appear st said
time and place, and if they see cause. object
thereto.
by the Court,
ATTEST:
5. NJ GLEASON judge
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cTATE OF VERMONT.

~ Bradford DistricI SO
In Probate Court held at Brndf0rs in said
District on the 9Th day of Nov, A. D.
1906
Charles F. Darling. Admr. of tn estate Of
Erastus Fl Wallace late Of Newhurv Isad district
deceased, presents his administration account
FOR examination and allowance. anf NAL es appli-
# the estate Of said deceased Whereupon. il
is ordered by said Court, that said account and
said application he referred 70 a session thereof,
10 be held az Hotel Low in said Bradford,
m the l1th day Of Dec A. y 1906. for hearing
md decision thereon; And it is further ordered.
that notice hereof he given to al persons inter
ested. by puhlica tion Of the same three weeks
~ucccssively in the United Opinion, o newsraper
published at Bradford previous 10 said time
appointed for hearing that they may appear
1T said time and r'lace and show couse, If any
hey may have, why said account should not be
'llowed ard such decree made.
s. M. GLEASON. Judge.