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Sunset In "the Red CITY" of Bavaria.

The numerous entrances to the old
town of Rothenburg are guarded by
beautiful watchtowers, which are in
habited by impoverished old women,
who rent their airy lodgings for a
nominal sum. The red twinkle of
their lamps high over the dusky streets
of Rothenburg at night-for it is as
medieval in its lighting as in many
other ways-is very charming in eff
feet The walls of RothenGurg are a
constant delight to visitors, who, by
dint of much squeezing through mar
row passageways and cropping in dark
ness, are able to make a circuit of the
city, getting glimpses on the way
through loopholes of the green country
outside. Wondrous views of the town
are also TO be had from many of the
distant hills. At sunset the sight of
its graceful towers and clutter ofred
roof tops is like fair vision of 70
nance. The city blazes for mo
ment in fiery mist, then suddenly
melts, mirage-like. in the gathering
dusk, leaving a sense of something
born of dream, the illusion of an en-
chanter's Notwithstanding Letter tC
Vogue.
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MONTPELIER .

Work is progressing finely on
City Hall.
j. ]. Chimney is building a new
house corner Bailey ave and Bald
win ST.
A. D. Lane has his house nearly
completed.
A new brick block is being built
on Barre street to be used as an
Italian bakery.
D. F. Riley is building a new
barn on Barre street.
DR.. H. L. Watson is to build
new house on LOOMS st.
j. R. Mitchell is building a new
house on the new street across the
Graham estate.
Jesse Villas is making extensive
repairs on his Western ave prop
erty
A new concrete block is being
built on Barre street.
\ DR.. l.. A. Newcomb IS cutting
he II tenement Bradshaw block
irto 6 double tenements and NOV
Fingthem back.
The old school building on Ber-
I'm st has been made into double
tenement and is nearly ready for
ocupa9y.
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Food of the Chinese.

In the Revue d'Hygiene DR.. Male
gnon, who lived for many years in
China, gives some curious details of
the food of the Chinese This is what
he says of the sons of heaven and the
way they eat eggs 1.-THE Chinese are
great eaters of eggs, which they take
hard boiled. One finds them in all the
roadside places for refreshment. The
Celestials have an expression. Eggs of
a hundred years The eggs are not
always century in age. but one is
able to get them of many years stand
ing. The Celestials have preference
for the egg of the duck or goose. They
are placed with aromatic herbs in
slaked lime for a period, the minimum
time of treatment being five or six
weeks. Under the influence of time
the yoke liquefies and takes a dark
green color The white coagulates and
becomes green. The product of the
eggs, which has a strong odor, from
which a stranger betakes himself
quickly. the Chinese eat as hors
d'oeuvres. and it is said to have the
taste of lobster"
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THOUGHT She Had Arrived.

81 have moved into a perfect gem of
an apartment on the sixth floor of one
of those new houses" said the woman
who paints china land am reveling in
its liberal supply of fresh air and sun
light"
"But don't you find the stairs an
overwhelming disadvantage" asked
an acquaintance.
1.-THE thought of the coy quarters at
such moderate cost colors my climb
with the roseate hue of optimism,
laughed the artist, "but one of my Gus
toners, middle aged and filed with
good food and the joy of living, evil
IDENTIFY found 1t a narrowing expert
ence.
at seemed ages that waited in the
hall after the ringing of the lower
bell, and upon hearing the labored
breathing of my ascending visitor I
ran back for the smelling salts.
when l had administered all the
means of resuscitation at hand she
managed to articulate between gasps:
at thought st. Peter always opened
the door New York Times.
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Looking, she understood the man and
the strange sweet longing of his coun-
tenance. When he unveiled a sketch
of herself tears rose with the inten-
sity of her delight Unfinished as it
was, it was the gem of the collection.
But the beauty, the exaltation of it,
were such as she had never possessed.
And he believed her like that! He was
great, he was good, and-she knew it
now with the suddenness of a reve-
latiOn-she loved him.
you were so like a picture at the
window" he apologized, that l stud
led you. You forgiven"
surely | forgive. You-you shall
study 1ne again"
"Oh, if l might and herel At the
window you hung so far above the
line"
II shall be on the line hereafter If
you paint me So" And her voice sank
to reverent whisper
The artists face flushed. He was
creature of emotions too natural to
seek concealment. Without troubling
to separate the woman from the con-
ception he struggled with an explana-
| ton.
"Oh. signorina. the years that | have
longed for you! l cannot make words
talk, but the picture shall say it all
how | was weak and wicked and you
! mercifully came TO be my salvation;
| how you looked at me TO lift me out of
sin. You will let me love you? | am
| bold to say it. because | ask nothing
! You are so far away that my love can
not offend more than ii does the Nir-
gin"
Angelica passed the night with open
eyes examining her happiness. The
| letters of a young attorney i'm Grand
Rapids had been destroyed. they show.
ed so commonplace beside the glory of
this new passion. Giuseppe should
! love her. as he willed. and when the
time came that it Wis not unmaidenly
to yield-in blissful wakefulness she
rehearsed the thousand ways that she
might tell him.
The sittings began. The artist work
ed feverishly and said little. Angelica
began to find him more complex than
she had thought
''You are like religion. You make
me sad" he said when asked about
his somberness. But ths answer dis.
pleased Angelica and filed her with
premonitions. Was 1t only black eyed
Floria, then. who could make hin
smilel
His interest in her personality was
meager, too, for a lover. When she
spoke of Grand Rapids he had muir
INJURED:
The rapids-back by the sea where
you liveY"
Angelica remarked that she lived far
inland and in pique added reference
to the attorney whose letters had been
sacrificed.
zone worthy you there7 Perhaps
Giuseppe Is not. He knows 1t. After
time you win return. The great
rapids win swallow you again. and
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Spontaneous Combustion.

Spontaneous combustion can only &C.
cur when oxidation causes the temper
allure to rise to the ignition point of
the material. Spontaneous combustion
Of the human body is impossible on ac-
count of the heat regulating effect of
the 10 or so per cent of water contain
ed. The enormous heat necessary to
dry the tissues sufficiently would de-
stroy life long before ignition could
take place. An old idea was that the
alcohol in a confirmed drunkard might
promote combustion. but Liebig show
ed that even if the body could give of
inflammable vapor and this could be-
come ignited the body itself would
not be set on fire.
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CORINTH

Jesse higgins visited his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j P. Virgins, one day
last week.
Mrs. Lila Remission is making
preparations for her auction, which
will be in the near future, as she and
her son are going away next month.
Mrs. Cross and daughter Bertha,
from Vershire, were with their
daughter and sister, Mrs. Winnie
Virgins, one day last week.
Lena Virgins, who was reported
assworking in Bradford, is at the
Weirs, working for Mrs. Hay OF
Bradford
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I UNION VILLAGE.
fDeferred.)

~ NDetei oo| obou+
WednSsday evening, Aug a9out
one hundred people assembled at
d. P. WaNrman's for lawn party
and ge4e1TAl good time,
terms ms il i Sl4% I house and afford
ed light for the tables on when
refreshments of ice cream, cake
and coffee We're served.
The fine orchestra of Norwich
furnished music that was a rare
treat.
Readings were given by Miss Eff
fie Root Mildred Sderce and Elsie
Stickney. Two littfe\ daughters of
surely fine.
Waterman and all thosS who so
kindly gave their services to en-
terrain us and to make thAevening
the thoroughly enjoyable None it
was.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Chafe OF
Fitchburg, Mass, were guests OF
Rev. and Mrs. w. E. Newton, AZ few
days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hutchins aNo
son of Manchester, N. H, speINt
Thursday and Friday with Mr.. andS
Mrs. L. G. Ellis.
Mrs. r. F. Neweomb, mother and
baby daughter are at Mrs. Mary
NeWcomb's.
Mrs. Hedges and son of North
field, Vt, have been guests of Mrs.
Cora Waterman.
Mrs. Bertha McQuesten and son
of Manchester, N. H. John Ordway
Mrs. Woodcock and Miss Minnie
Woodcock of Post Mills: William
and Eugene Ordway of Washing
ton were guests at L. B. Morse's
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Burnham OF
Boston, Mass, spent Saturday and
Sunday at A. F. Ruggles.
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citation
E~IHE FlorentineS were proud of
Giuseppe. To tourists the inn
keeper pointed him out along
with the city's curios as the
painter who was to equal Raphael and
revive in Italy the glories of bygone
centuries.
His faults?" And for once the inn
keepers rhapsody halted out of defer
ence to the well bred young lady at
the window. ut is true Giuseppe has
faults. But, signorina, what will you?
He is young, and geniuses are not
found under every bush even in Italy.
Margharita, Floria, Beatrice, Frances
ca"-the fingers of both hands thrown
out and a despairing shrug indicated
the inaccuracy of the count-"they all
have spoiled him. But look for your
self. Could you blame them"
Angelica looked. Besides being a
conscientious traveller anxious to miss
nothing she was painter, too in her
prim, orderly way and before her Ital-
ian sojourn could boast an occasional
premium at a county fair. She had al
ready heard of Giuseppe at the studio
in Rome, and her interest grew now
that she saw the man. Her trained
glance noted his perfect proportions
The soft roundness of the figure
matched with the handsome head in
which, she could swear, no concrete
fact had ever found Judgment. Such a
being should be care free, ward of
the nature he interpreted. He needed
blue sky and sunshine for a back
ground. lis faults-well, who could
rebuke the lightness of a butterfly :?
And yet in his expression there was
restless hungering that explained the
artist. 1t was a sorrowful look, but
beautiful and in harmony with the fea-
lures. Its dissatisfaction, free from
plant or protest, had long been sweet
ened into aspiration.
"How cold he would look in Grand
Rapids winter!" she thought. But
even In Grand Rapids he would still
believe in Italy"
Then she glanced away. Anglo-SaX
on secretiveness hid her interest, for
the great painter, seeing her, had
paused and was staring up enrapt from
the walk below The rudeness was
nconscious-framed by the window
sash she looked so like a picture in an
exhibition. Her clear cut face, all
purity, resembled nothing he had ever
seen in life. Such faces he some
times dreamed of-after confession. He
loved them as he loved the church,
with its poetry and mystic symbol
ism. Her gentle GOODNESS, so differ
ent from Floria, gave her holy seem
ing, and holiness had power to thrill his
soul, like a violin's harmonics. as some
thing high and fine, almost past the
sensing. That such creature must be
beyond all touch of passion affected
him with ineffable sadness, but to the
artist sadness holds an element of deep
artistic joy. Her height above him
brought a consciousness of his own sin
oppressed mortality. Her eyes wan
.dered beyond him in apparent careless
ness.
"She is an angel from heaven, and
she knows not that l live" he muir
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him. Heave

gave way. He was failing like Luci-
fer from a great height swiftly, gid
ely. And still as he clasped her in his
arms she kept demanding:
"Me or hsyf Prove IT,"
Giuseppe turned to the picture. In
his glance was the cvnicism of an en-
lightened century over which unbelief
has swept He considered the tender
pathos of fits eyes with their promises
that could never be brought quite to
fulfillment He marked its spirituality,
pleading mutely against the flesh. sa-
cred. distant. always distant and I'M
readable. And IT was he who had
painted such a meaning into those fea-
lures. II was be who had cared for
heaven while there was an earth. The
corners OF his mouth twitched. With
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you've been counting me now for
a number of years, George" remarked
a girl TO a young man. ''and ! want to
make a little leap year proposal"
81 am not in a position to m-mar.
~ Just yet" stammered the youth,
but
"Who said anything about mar.
riageY" interrupted the girl. 81 was
going to propose that you stop com
ing here and give somebody else a
chance Inquirer.
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takes vengeance. You are troubled
you, my contented onew
COMMENTED; yes. But she wasn't a
lie," Giuseppe said as he laid away the
canvas, for she comes to me in my
sleep and whispers of the blessed un-
rest that is the greatness of man. She
made me sorrowful, but she would
have saved me my soul. She was a
coquette; she would never have salts
fed. l should have gone on and onr'
"You regret?" eagerly whispered the
innkeeper. THAT is good. Regret,
paint again. and you will yet be Giu-
seppe, the master"
His eagerness was checked by Giu-
seppe's smile II regret nothing. l am
happy-as contented as an animal
without a soul. 1t is sweet to be So
And a man cannot have all things.
shall paint again, to be sure, but
shall never be an artist"
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pleased him that her home had so
hazily remote a sound. Michigan-no
world power that-one Of those faroff
unknown countries which the fancy
loves and the geography ignores. But
the host came presently with further
information:
Michigan lake, they tell me, big
as a sea. And the lady paints. She
would desire to see your pictures, it
might be-eh?-if you asked. You love
herr"
Eyes, / love her" Giuseppe an
swered, but she is not for such as
me-"
That night he had a word for Mar
gharita. kiss from Floria. an appoint
ment with Beatrice. But IT was the
last time. for his heart was with the
sanity one whose lips his might never
press. Henceforward she alone should
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ESTATE OF WILLIAM NJ. WEIGH.

CTATE OF VERMONT, In Probate
- DISTRICT OF BRApFoRn. - Court held At
Ihetford in and for said District on the 18th day
Of August, A. D., 1909.
Dick VI. Welch administrator.
Of the estate Of William NJ. Welch late OF
Topsham. VT. In said District, deceased makes
application 20 said Court for license 20 sell
an Of the real estate Of said deceased situated
in tbs state representing that the sale thereof =
Necessary for the purpose OF paying debts and
settlement q said estate
whereupon. Il IL ordered by said Court. that
said application be referred 70 session thereof
20 be held at Probate Office Hn said Thetford
on the 4th day Of sept, A. d. 1909, for hearing
and decision thereon. and IL is further ordered
that all persons interested be notified hereof. BY
publication Of notice Of said application and
order thereon three weeks Euecessively IN the
United Opinion. Newspaper puhished AZ Brad
ford in this State. and which cireulztes In the
neirhborhood Of those interested before said
time q bearing. that they may appear at said
time and place, and u they zee cause. obieei
thereto.
~ - BY the Court.
W@RaWWM ATTEST
x5laZN sM. GLEASON gudEs
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be his inspiration She would make
him great. He would put on canvas
this impossible, ecstatic passion for a
water maiden, an Undine, an angel
from Michigan-that lake, big as q
sea. And perhaps she would come to
see his pictures.
Angelica came one day. The inn
keepers "He respects you, signorina,
gave the most flattering of safeguards.
In spite of herself she was very proud
of it, this respect of a dissolute man.
for it separated her, for Giuseppe
from earth's other women. 1t was a
distinction to be valued like all dis
tinctions, according to its rarity.
Giuseppe received her with few
words and much humility. His works
spoke for him. She saw there Madon-
ma eyes and quiet valleys and that
peaceful calm of evening when God
walked abroad in the garden. Every
where was faith, tinged by sorrow to
a deeper richness, and poetry and in
tuitive comprehension of those things
beyond that humankind must strive
for, never reaching. A despair of her
own poor reasoning talent seized her.
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INJURED. "Yet ii
she knew surely
she would plead
for me with Mary
and the blessed
saints"
"a stranger
Yes, she is q
stranger" cooed
the host, pointing
to the register
W hen Giuseppe
questioned. Gen
Jus is a dollhouse
plant that must
be coaxed into
flower. "a for
ign n a m e -
Ca-arter - yes
Carter, Angeles
Carter of Mich
gan"
So-an an gel
even as Giuseppe
u II
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t h e pain t e r
and his W f e.
They are a pair
of lovers-so hap
by. oh, it is most
unfortunate; she
has ruined him.
If only he had
married Floria-
but how is a hap
by man ever to
be a Raphael?"
When the inn
keeper one night
came upon his
protege piecin G
t o G e t h re r the
edges of the mu-
tilated canvas he
rubbed his hands
in glee.
"Ah, you de-
stroyed what was
good, and it tor
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LEGAL.

PRoBATECoURTs-BRADFo DISTRICT leO6-'1
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 Decem-
Der, January. February. and March.
North Thetford-At Jaquith's Hotel on the
second Tuesday OF December. January, February
and March
Also at the Probate Office in Thetford on the
first Wednesday Of every month.
s. NJ. GLEASON. Judge.
Thetford Center. Vt. Dec. IS. 1906.
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Woman" exclaimed the suffragette
SIS the equal OF man in every respect"
"0h. I don't know" replied a man
In the audience: lit takes a man to
put an angleworm on a hshhook."-
Detroit Free Press.
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put warning he burst into long, loud
laugh It's cold materialism startled
Angelica. Before she could prevent he
had seized palette knife and slasheo
the canvas from edge to edge.
81 have proved it." he whispered
"She is worse than a coquette. She is
a lie. But l have you. am satisfied"
YES" the innkeeper was wont to
confde to guests, that is Giuseppe,
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STAFFORD

Miss Laura West is spending a
few days at Silver Lake.
Miss Elizabeth Chandler returned
to her home Monday, after spend
ing a few weeks in town.
Leonard Kent went to Thetford
Sunday, to work for Frank Burr
Mr. B. F. Marshall of New
Rochelle. n. Y, arrived in town
Saturday. from Fairlee Lake. -
Mrs. Wright and son of Bristol,
are guests at her brothers, C.. A.
Crane.
Ralph Scribner and wife. OF
Greenfield, Mass, are visiting his
sister. Mrs. Bert Haywood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hatch Chamberlin
q Concord, n. H., are staying at
the STAFFORD House for few days.
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TOPSHAM.

J.F. Nolan, wife and son Will
bur returned from Ocean Park, Me-,
last Friday.
Miss Irene Taplin has returned to
her home in South Ryegate after
spending several days here with
friends and relatives.
The remains of Samuel Mills, ST.,
of South Ryegate were brought
here for burial Thursday.
Mrs w. J. Jackman and son
Lawrence of East Corinth have
been spending few days with her
parents, J. r. McLam and wife.
Mrs. Harry McLam is a little
more comfortable at this writing.
Harry G. Currier is visiting his
uncle, r. H. Blake at East Orange
this week.
The S. S. picnic was quite well
attended, and a good time enjoyed
by all.
Mrs. E. D. Taggart has returned
to Newbury after spending several
weeks here.
Miss Agnes Nolan is again on
the sick list.
Fred Hood and two children of
Boston are guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen Hood.
Our new school director, Henry
Leet, is adding much to the i'm
provement of the village by grad
ing the school house grounds and
having the building painted, also
having the long needed repairs
made by putting in hardwood floors
and new desks and having the UNI
derpinning laid over.
Mrs. D. o. Clark and two daugh-
tiers, Misses Marjorie and Dorothy,
with Mr.. Nicholas Mitchell, re-
turned to their respective homes in
Hull and bingham, Mass, last
week after spending a months va
cation at Mountain View Farm,
with J. II. Whitcher and wife.
Frank Mason returned home last
week from Arthur Mason's in Brad
ford, where he has been at work.
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Of Michigan
BY CAROLEN BATESON

Copyright. 1909. by American Press Asso-
citation
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-07-03
ADJUSTMENTS.

Brown Of Harvard" is the brfeht
and happy comedy that will be given
the week Of July s by the Jay Quigley
9iayers at the Lyceum theater. This
sparkling little story of American col
lese life is said to be the finest COL
1ege play ever written and it will be
produced by Mr.. Quigley and his fine
company of players at the Lyceurn
Tor the first time in Duluth. The plav
Is the ideal sort for summer entertain
ment, 1t 1s bright and interesting.
amusing and clever, and the Quigley
players will present a delightful per
Torrance.
Rodney Famous, the leading man of
the company, will have the biggest op-
portun1ty Of the year in the role Of
Tom Brown. A rowing race and the
crew that goes out to win honor and
1ame from Harvard is one Of the in
teresting features. There is, Of course.
pretty love story woven into the
plot. Brown OF Harvard" will be
one of the best offerings Of the year.
It Will be given every evening begin
ming Monday. with Wednesday and
Saturday matinees.
Shore Acres" that delightful Old
play that appeals alike to the old the
ter goer and to the. young people who
see 1t for the first time, is being given
this week. Crowded houses have
greeted it at very performance. The
play vii be given every night with q
aSturday matinee,
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ELECTRICIAN ON DOCK ~
Is FATALLY INJURED

Oscar Erickson, 2712 West Fourth
street, died at st. Mary's hospital as
the result of injuries sustained in an
accident at the Duluth, Missaber &
Northern coal docks, Thirty second
avenue west. ) 4. 49,: (, 4, 3
Internal injuries which resulted in
his death were received while leaning
over the railing on the dock near one
OF the coal hoists when the apparatus
swung around, pinning him against
the, rail and rendering him uncon-
scious. ,& ,E.t5l >c5s #l.S$- 4. ~ r'.5il
Olson was formerly the operator Of
the aerial bridge, holding that position
until last fall. He has since been EN-
ployed as the electrician at the Mis-
sable coal docks, his work being TO- ad =
Just the machinery. He is survived
by his wife and brother, Charles
Erickson, painter, in the West End.
His mother is said to he living in the
vicinity Of Grand Rapids, MN. & 81 iy*
Funeral services were held from the
Swedish Mission church. Rev, G. Mel.
son ,officiated. .Interunent was in Her
mantowm cemetery Ii, 4 ns u 81 = s j.