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Value of Fishskins.

"Fishskins are popularity regarded
as about the most useless thing on
earth, not good to eat and only valua-
BILE to hold together the good fish meat
inside Them" said a man who had
caught fish or worked in fish packing
houses all his life. But just wait I'M
til we begin to pay more for our glue,
and then We'll sit up and think about
the fishskins. The market value of
this commodity has advanced rapidly
the past few years, and in another year
1t is going to take decided leap up
ward.
1T was only few years ago that
fishskins were thrown away as worth
less, and the fish packing companies
were seriously concerned as to how to
get rid of them. In one place where
worked there was hole in the fish
skinning loft which was connected
with runway into the water beneath
the wharf Even then we would fill up
the hole quicker than the skins could
be carried away. Some firms used to
60 to the expense of having the skins
carted away to some dumping ground.
"But one day some one woke up TO
the fact that the skins had certain ad-
hesive qualities, and fish glue began
to be manufactured. Then fishskins
took on a commercial value. Since then
the price has advanced steadily. The
demand now is so large that it is prob
able the price will be doubled within
a year."-New York Press
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-01
Modern Witchcraft.

How many English readers who have
read the witch trial of Vienna know
that Just such women as Marie Nebily,
performing just such tricks, are to be
found in England? Marie seems to
have surprised the Austrian judge by
her story of the Hungarian shepherd,
Stephan Stephanovics. who Is ninety
years old and who sells charms and in
whom she believes. He made the re-
mark, which we have so often heard
before, that the world is not In the mid
die ages. But the Judge is wrong. A
great part of mankind Is In the middle
ages, If by that is meant that 1t be-
lieves in witchcraft. The credulous
Austrian woman who thought that her
husband could be cured of extrava-
gance II she gave half of one Of his
socks to Marie Nehily. who would then
for a small consideration In ready mon
ey give a powder to cure him Of spend
thrift habits. has many French and
English fellow believers. White and
black witches thrive in many parts Of
England. And what is more. they not
only make dupes. but not few Of
them really believe In their own
charms. as the woman Nebily asserted
that she did-Loudon Outlook.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-01
Didn't Want Notoriety.

The English Winston Churchill spoke
in London recently to party of jour
nalists, saying it was astonishing how
keenly sensitive to newspaper critl-
cism the ordinary person was, and
quoted what he said was a letter re-
ceived by an editor in the United
States, as follows:
Dear Sir - regret to inform you that
on my way home from the saloon this
evening l fell into a political alteration
with Colonel Jonas P. Walker of this
town, in the course of which a slight mis-
understanding arose. and l am very sorry
to think that in the end 1 shot him.
should add also that, carried away by the
excitement Of the moment, I scalped him.
But I earnestly hope that no exaggerated
account of this painful episode will APP
pear in the columns Of your paper.
-Argonaut.
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DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
Cures Piles. ScaIds. Burns.
STRAFFORD.

Mrs. Chas. Reynolds of Ran
dolph spent a few days in town
recently.
Miss Addie Reynolds visited her
brother in Randolph last week.
r. L. MOsher drove stage to
FPenrPan60sdc; + Friday, Tor Fl. I.
Silloway.
Lottie Mosher acted as libra
rian at Harris Library, Saturday
for Mrs. Geo. Moore.
Maude L. Mosher returned
Thursday from her visit at Glare
mont, N. H.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ell. I. Silloway
were called to Bradford, Friday,
to attend the funeral of Mr.. SillO-
ways mother.
Mrs. Harvey Smith died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Corey
Larkin, Thursday, Jan. "a.
H. A. Moore has bought out O.
Corwin and wishes to close out
his stock. Give him a call for low
prices. Come in if you don't buy.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-01
WELLS RIVER

Mrs. II. III. Lee returned from
Canada, Wednesday morning.
Mrs. A. M. Whitelaw went to
Allston, Mass. last week to stay
several weeks with her daughter,
Mrs. Harry Center.
Miss Nellie Bone has gone home
and Miss Maude Smith is at work
for Mrs. A. II. Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Cochran
were in st, Johnsbury last week
to attend the Scotia Club meeting
and banquet.
Mrs. Clement of Suncook, N.
Ell. came last week to spend sew
eral weeks with her daughter,
Mrs. j. f. Shattuck.
A. I'll. Bailey came home from
TarrytOwn, N. Y, last Sunday
for stay of a week or two.
Miss Wentworth of Boston was
guest of the Cochrane's last
week.
The social by the L. A. S. last
Friday was well attended, and the
entertainment, under the super
vision of Mrs. Geo. Parker, much
enjoyed.
Miss Adine Davenport Hale
will give her second Song Recital
in the Cong'l Church in this place
Tuesday evening, Feb. 9Th, at s
o'clock, with Mr.. Fred Whittier
of Montpelier as violinist. Mr..
Whittier has studied several years
in Germany, and with Miss Luvia
Ellen Mann of Woodsville, reader,
and our own Mrs. Geo. Parker,
pianist, we are sure of a pleasing
and frst-class entertainment.
Part of the proceeds will go
towards the village hall fund.
Tickets are on sale at Bucks and
Mann's drug stores and at the
office of Hale's Tavern.
Rebekah Lodge officers were in
stalled last week by D. D. Miss
Pope of st. Johnsbury, assisted
by Mrs. Belcher of Bradford, as
CIR. Marshal. Officers for 1907:
N. G. Miss Maude Foster; V. G.,
Mrs. Lamphere; Sec, Mrs. Shat
tuck; treas, Mrs. Ellen Bartlett;
guardian, Mrs. Vincent; cond.,
Linda George; r. S. of N. g., DR..
Mrs. Berkinshaw; chap, Miss
J. F. Shattuck; L. S., Miss G. A.
Gale.
Contributions to the Village
Hall fund may be left at Leavitt's
store. The fund was started by
a ten cent contribution. Every
little helps, and small favors
thankfully received.
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Al Anoient Abbev burned.

The beautiful abbey of St. German
and st. Mary at Selby, Yorkshire, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire few
weeks ago. Portions Of the building
dated from 1896 It's architecture, ow-
ing to additions at various periods, was
of many styles, but the nave and choir
were among the most beautiful and
perfect specimens of Norman architec-
ture in England. The local fire brigade
found that the fire had gained a strong
hold on the organ, new instrument
recently installed at cost Of $4,000.
Their efforts had hardly any effect on
the fire, which, having destroyed the
organ, rose to the roof of the choir and
spread with remarkable rapidity among
the seasoned oak timbers
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-01
Estate OF NELSON B TEwKsRuRY

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon Probate Court for the District Of Brad
ford Commissioners, to receive. examine. and
adjust All claims and demands Of al persons
against the estate Of NelsonB Tewksbury late of
Newhury in said District deceased. and ell esims
that we will meet for the purposes aforesaid at
the store of A B Te~I sbnry on the
18th day February and 18th day Of Juue
next from o'clock D. m. until 4o'clock nm, each
Of said DAYS and that six months from the LIST
dav Of January A. D. 1907. is the time linn
tied by said Court for said creditors to present
their claims TO ms for examination and allowance
Dated at Newbury this 10th day Of jan
A. d. 1907.
H 1obs E : g 2asSh coAnnssrOSrRs. .
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-01
LEGAL.

PROBATE CouRrs-BRADFoRD DtsTRtcr 1867.
Probate Courts within and for said district
will be held the ensuing year as follows:
Bradford-At Hotel Low in Bradford on the
second Tuesday Of every month, except January,
February, and March.
North Thetford-At Jaquith's Hotel on the
second Tuesday Of January. February and March.
Also at the Probate Office in Thetford on the
first Wednesday Of every month.
s. N. GLEASON, Judge.
Thetford Center, VT, Dec. rs. 1906.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1907-02-01
ESTATE OF WILLIAM G BUCHANAN

-HF undersigned, having been appointed
Il bv the Hon. Probate Court for the Dis
trfct OF Bradford commissioners to receive,
Of All persons against the estate Of William @
BUCHANAN late Of Newbury in said district
deceased and all claims exhibited in Offset
Nor the purposes aforesaid at the Office
Of Smith A Smith on the 9Th dav Of Feb'y
and 10th day Of June next from O'Clock ? m.
until 4 O'Clock m. each Of said days.
and that six months from the 2isitiay OF
De- A u 1915, Is the time limited by said
rourt for said creditors to presf Mt their
claims 70 rs for examination and allowance.
DATED at Wells River VI. this 10th day Of
Jan A. D., 1877.
Is T. S W. ct9,r. cOmms.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

ments. For the love Of women there
has been no limit to which men have
not gone. Murder and suicide. home
breaking and life-wrecking, and every
single act in the long catalogue Of
crime have attended the relationships
which mans love for woman has pro
duced. But in actual experience men
seldom love one another devotedly,
There are stories which have come
down from remote ages telling OF the
devotion of Jonathan to David or OF
the sweet and lasting friendship OF
Damon for Pythias, but, even when
used as examples worthy of emulation,
these tales have had little influence in
bringing men Of to-day into relation
ships of special or unusual personal
closeness. The days of chivalry were
often marked by the devotion of one
to the interest of another, devotion
in which intense admiration and will
ingness to serve came pretty close to
worship, but as the romance OF such
an era faded away In the advent OF
the stern and practical life of a com
mercial age, and the notions of per
sonal independence came into violent
conflict with the idea Of service under
feudal lord, the finer sense of real
admiration disappeared, lest such a
feeling should be counted sign of de-
pendence and inferlority. In the same
way, in American political life, 1t has
been no uncommon thing to see men so
devoted to the interests of a party
leader as to be willing to make sacri
flee of all sorts in order to have that
leader win-time, money, strength, and
enthusiasm being given without stint.
Clay, or Blaine, or Jackson could count
many such admirers, but such interest
in a leader rarely approximates real
love- Men trust their fellows In bust
ness. They have every confidence in
them when matters of moment are to
be considered In secret or vixen finan-
cial interests are involved. They enjoy
their companionship in clubroom or
lodge, or ON outings for health or pleas
ure. They will use all honorable ef-
forts for promoting the welfare of one
another. They will risk life to save
another from danger or death, but
when it comes to the deeper feeling it
is surprising how few the cases have
been where one man has cared much
for the affectionate regard Of another.
The exception Is the more noteworthy
because of the ordinary rule Of life.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

Every fresh collapse Of plantation
company, every new scheme for fleeing
ill-advised poor folks out Of their little
savings by roseate promises of wealth
that they cannot possibly gain, every
shakedown in Wall street, and, indeed,
every collapse of savings bank in
which small depositors have placed
their money gives new impetus to the
demand that safe opportunities for safe
investments be In some way provided
those citizens who do not know how
rightly to safeguard themselves. The
movement for the postal savings bank
Is one result of this demand. The
movement for publicity in corporation
affairs Is another. The movements for
municipal and government ownership
of public utilities also gather a certain
amount of strength from this quarter.
In general the need for safe Investment
of small savings seems bound to play
a prominent place among the factors
which will determine our future in
dustrial tendencies. In England the
government has undertaken to make in
vestment In certain safe securities easy
to all citizens, and, strangely enough, the
extent of the facilities it offers are very
little known outside the ranks of those
who utilize them. 1t Is through the
postofiice that these investments are
bn II tiac op M for
than In the purchase Of an ordinary
money order, and the government
charges for Its service as broker an
exceedingly moderate fee. Four stocks
may be bought in this way-namely,
consols, 2& per cent annuities, IA per
cent annunities and local loans. Not
more than $1,000 may be invested In
this way in single year, nor more
than $500 altogether by any one per-
son. But from these limits at the top
to a 25-cent limit at the bottom the
invesor has free scope. If only shlll7
Ing or two Is to be invested the depos-
itor receives a document called an Fin
vestment certificate" When he has in
vested G100 he can get certificate to
bearer with coupons attached. So long
as he has less invested than the lowest
denomination of the securities issued
he is dependent on transfer of his
account on the books of the postoffice
for purchase and sale. AS he gets
more money invested he can take his
securities himself in the ordinary way.
by this device, however small a suin
the investor may have, he can place 1t
in the safe investments mentioned at
current prices and sell out whenever
he wishes at prices current at the time
of sale. The government no doubt es-
tabllshed this system mainly to widen
the market for Its own securities, but
the advantages are manifest, and the
system may well be capable of future
elaboration
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

Topeka.-"This is one of the great
est, II not the greatest, years in Kan
sas' history" said Secretary Coburn,
the famous score keeper for the States
prosperity, to Topeka correspondent
the other day. ''The farmers are get
ting the best Of it. No mortals on
earth anywhere are SO well prepared
for happiness"
He had just completed his estimate
of practically 100,000,000 bushels of
high grade wheat as the crop of the
State this year And this great crop
the greatest raised by any State in the
nation-comes not after famine, but
as the climax of seven prosperous
years in which debts have been paid.
mortgages cancelled, improvements of
every sort added.
They are saving their wheat money.
Much of it is going into banks. The
State has a bank to every 1884 people,
more than any other State. Hundreds
Of them have farmers for shareholders
chiefly. Their only difficulty is to find
places to loan the deposits.
One country bank with $4,000 capt
tai recently had $160,000 deposits, and
three-fourths of this in cash, because
no one in the neighborhood wanted to
borrow it. 1t was in the heart of the
wheat belt where 20 new banks have
been chartered in the past 90 days.
But they are getting good things out
of life, too. Why not with $60,000,000
in cash for single crop?
Ten years ago house furnace was
rare in Kansas. Now the hardware
and plumbing wagons are scattered
through the country setting up fur
naces in farmers houses. Same way
with bath tubs, same way with tele-
phones, rubber-tired buggies, pianos
| (not organs as of old), and all the
multitude Of things that go to make up
prosperity.
In one little town 300 monographs
have been sold in the past year, at $40
to $50 each. In that county are 1000
farmers telephones-two of the % ru-
raj mail carriers make their trips dali
ly In automobiles. Every farm has
daily mail; covered wagons take chill
dren to union schools. z
Wheat money fst"velvet" more than
any other the Kansas farmer receives.
Only 1,650,000 people live in Kansas
though more are coming rapidly be-
cause Of the promise of competency.
This Is about the same as Philadelphia
has. They have put $129,O00,000 in
the banks and are adding to the amount
regularly. Think what it means to
dump $6o,000,000 in cash into the State
from one crop alone.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

When does girl become an old
maid2 This question, blunt and shorn
of delicate innuendo, Is now figuring
In the discussion of Philadelphia So
ciety One might say that girl be-
comes an old maid when she fails to
marry betimes, but that is not the
point. What Is the exact year that
ushers In splnsterhood and closes for
ever the gates of youthG OF course
this is not a matter In which man has
any word to say, No rational wearer
of trousers would tempt fate and the
scorn of femininity by attempting a
suggestion, for any arbitrary dead line
would necessarily bring down upon the
luckless masculine head storm of
reprobatlon. 1t has been left to the
women themselves to brave the peril.
And they have placed the age at 40
years. Under this ruling woman is n
tender bud until two score years have
counted their gloomy litany of days
and the hair near the scalp begins to
whiten.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

LEWIS WARRINGTON vier engaged in bat
tie with the American ship Peacock, of
which Commodore Warrington was
then in command. At the very begin
ming of the conflict, the foreyard Of
the Peacock was totally disabled New
ertheless, within a space of forty-two
minutes after the engagement had be-
gun, the Peacock was the victor and
the Eperyier almost totally disabled
The forces had been nearly equal; If
anything, the British had enjoyed a
slight advantage. Therefore, the mas
terly conduct Of the battle had been
entirely due to the magnificent courage
and laudable skill of Commodore War
rington.
No higher tribute could have been
paid to the patriotism Of Warrington
than the inscription upon the medal,
for 1t was recognition not only Of
ability, but even more OF a nobility of
character than Is the basis Of real
greatness.
Surely no higher compliment can be
given to man than that his country
should say Of him that he was pre-
pared either to conquer or to die" for
her sake.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

While 1t is true that our public lands
have been recklessly wasted and that
the area and productiveness of our
wheat lands have been greatly re-
duced, we do not think the situation
at all alarming. The public lands
granted to railroads and sold to graz
ers and ranchmen have not been spirit
ed away. They are all here, as fertile
as nature made them, and before many
years they will all be owned, occupied
and cultivated by private owners, As
for lands whose productivity has di-
minished through unsclentiiic farming,
they can easily be brought up again by
proper fertilizlng. The so-ealled
"worn-out' lands for wheat purposes
are not dead; they are only overwork-
ed and tired.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

A youth who thought it was fun to
alarm his companions swan round the
boat in which they were fishing and
sank under water several times, pre-
tending that he was drowning. At last
he went down with shout for help,
and no attention was paid to him.
This time he did not reappear on the
surface and searchers were unable to
find bis body. This is the old story of
the boy who cried Wolf! Wolff" so
often that when a wolf finally did at
tack him, he was left to his fate.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

At Worcester, England, the slab
erected over departed auctioneer is
Inscribed with single wrod. "Gone"
In Sussex the initials and date Of the
death of the deceased are followed by
two words, "TIe was" The most re-
markable inscription is at Cane Htll
Cemetery, Belfast, where the inscrlp,
ton says, left till called for"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

A Philadelphia manlcurist is to be-
come the wife of a millionaire brewer.
She says their romance began when
they first held hands, 1t isn't always
necessary, however, for lady to be
a manlcurist in order to start ro-
nance by holding hands.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

Canada is a good neighbor and
good customer. Sixty-one per cent of
all the purchases which Canada made
last year from other countries were
from this nation, and they amounted
to nearly two hundred million dollars.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

A Georgia judge has decided that it
is every mans duty to kiss his wife at
least once a day, the best time being
when he gets home at night There
are some mean men, though, who will
prefer to do 1t the first thing in the
morning, so as to have 1t over with.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

1t Is not often that one man cares so
much for another as to desire to end
his own life when his friend Is taken
away. The account of such case,
which was printed few days ago, only
emphasizes the rarity of such attach
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

medal which Con-
ress ordered struck
as a commemora-
tlon Of the bravery
of Commodore Lew
Is Warrington.
T Upon the Goth Of
April, 1914, during
the course of the
second naval war
with England, the
British brig Eper-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

A New York millionaire recently
asked his typewriter to marry him and
was refused. Perhaps she thought it
would be easier to run his office than
to try to keep cook.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15
Balls OF All seasons.

Thou hast all seasons for tnlne own,
O ball. In the autumn we have foot
ball, In the winter the social ball, In
the spring baseball, and In the sum
mer the moth ball.-Four-Track News.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

John d. Rockefeller gave orders to
bore for water under his big office
building in Cleveland In the expecta-
tion of saving few dollars on water
rents. Instead Of water he struck gas
and oil. Is John d. sort of modern
Midas, that he cannot bore hole In
the ground anywhere without striking
oiI7
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

Philadelphia has social organiza-
ton which is trying to make 1t appear
that a woman is girl until she Is 4O.
Julia Ward Howe is probably ready to
admit that woman of 40 is a mere
child
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15
quite Regular.

"The last time saw Gayley he
wasn't very er--regular in his habits"
"Oh, he's very regular now"
"weil, well, didn't think he'd ever
reform"
''EIe hasn't. His habits are all bad
now" Philadelphia Ledger.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

In the latest French duel one of the
antagonists missed and the other
wouldn't shoot. They can do that well
on almost any vaudeville stage.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

The Importance of the saying that
murder will out" is largely compro-
missed by the probability that the mur-
derer will get out
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

A boy of II was married the other
day to a girl of 16, with the consent
! OF her guardian. The guardian ought
to have a guardian.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

In the case of that Philadelphia
bank, too, the bank examiner found
rotten state of affairs-after It was all
over
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

What a man would call "enthusi-
asm" as applied to himself he dups
"gush" In others.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-15

Somebody with a memory has with
ly dubbed the new bobtailed spelling
"joshbillingsgate."