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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-08-25

With four companies already on the
ground and twenty more expected to
he here by noon today, the indications
point to an immense crowd of firemer
in Hampton this afternoon when the
Virginia State Firemen'S Association
will begin its twenty-third ANIMAL con-
vention.
Last night the streets of the city
were lined with people. while the cleo
tIical displays and the other decOra-
tions gave the "Old Game Cock
Town" the gayiest appearance it has
had in many years.
Those firemen VINO came In during
the afternoon and evening were out
IN full force and were centers of at
traction.
Harrisonburg Here.
The evening Chesapeake and Ohio
trains brought four visiting compah-
les from the mountains OF Virginia.
Harrisonburg. under command Of
Capt. George w. Bassford, the chief.
and accompanied by the Harrison
burg Brass band OF % pieces, brought
here 80 firemen and party of twelve
ladies'. They were quartered with DR..
William p Isley, in Melrose avenue.
The Lexington company, Capt. j. w.
Seal. with % men, we're taken TO the
home of Mrs. Kate Spratley, in south
King street. while Covingtcn, Capt.
J. II. Overholt. brought 80 men
who domiciled in the boarding house
of Mrs. Georgia Brown, in east Queen
street. The Charlottesville company.
Capt. T. J. Williamson A men. is
stopping at Cape View Cottage, Buck
roe Beach.
The visiting firemen were met at
the station by a committee from the
Hampton department. land marched TO
the engine house in Court street Inc
courthouse and engine house have
been prettily decorated in honor OF
the visiting fremen.
A large number of ladies' have al
ready arrived from Harrisonburg.
Covington and Lexington. while many
strangers are stopping throughout the
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23

Of Massachusetts. The family is al
old one and rich. The young man was
sent to Harvard to prepare for the law
Barring accidents-or romance-Bris
tow Draper would now be a member
of Boston law firm instead of a mill
foreman on weekly wages.
Romance interviewed.
While on a college student jaunt in
Boston young Draper met Queenie San.
ford, a chorus girl. Dan Cupid threw
his lasso about the twain. Draper pro
posed and was accepted. When he
told his father he was going to marry
! the actress the latter stormed and
threatened
'T'll disown you" angrily Numbered
the father Every WELL" said the boy
of twenty with soul stuff in him. ''I'll
make a place for myself in the world
and home for Queenie."
He married Queenie and was disin-
herited. Leaving Boston, he went to
Burlington, VT, where he entered the
big cotton mills. Every day he car
ried his dinner bucket to the mills.
drawing his pay on Saturday night and
taking the money home to the little
cottage by the lake that he and Queenie
had rented.
For more than a year Bristow ORA
per worked as a spinner at $3.50 per
week. Often in his student life he
had squandered that much on dinner
for two.
By and by the mill bosses saw that
Bristow was made of good stuff, and
he got a promotion. followed shortly
by another There was no pull"
The bosses didn't know the governors
son from Adams son.
Then came the baby into the little
cottage-a pretty baby that looked like
its mother.
Do you remember the saying in the
old book, "a little child shall lead
themP'
Well. when Grandpa Draper heard
about the baby a sort of melting proc
ess began. And one day he and
Grandma Draper got off the train at
Burlington and drove in a fine car
riage out to the little cottage.
Nobody but the Diapers knows just
what happened in the cottage, but the
governor and his wife stayed for din
ner and then for two days end went
away happy.
Back to the law" said young ORA
per a few days after Not for me.
Nor society either Queenie and the
baby are good enough for me. Be
sides, as l started in the cotton bust
ness l think I'll stay in it."
And that's all, except
Queenie Draper is fine mother and
housekeeper and thinks Bristow is the
finest and bravest husband in the
world.
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Heart toHeart
Talks.
GRADUATED AT FoRTY.sEvEN.
By EDWIN A. .NYE.,

A few years ago Dr. Osler was made
to say that the average man should
be retired at forty-1ve and chloro
formed at sixty years of age.
An Iowa man refutes the Osler
theory.
About four years ago George c.
White of Nevada, Ia, developed an
appetite for politics and was elected
a member of the legislature, where he
rapidly forged to the front.
He was chairman of the committee
on ways and means of the lower house
and was regarded as one of the most
forceful members of the general as
sembly.
While a member of the legislature
Mr.. White was also a student in the
law classes Of Drake university, at Des
MONIES, and last spring he graduated.
But this is not all.
He is going to Yale for two years,
where, with his Drake credentials, he
can at the expiration of that time
complete a postgraduate course.
Then Mr.. White will go back to his
home town of Nevada and open law
Office.
Now, mind you
This man is forty-seven years of
age!
And when he gets through Yale he
will be nearly fifty years old-the age
when some men begin to think of re-
firing from business.
Mr.. White is wise.
Realizing a little late in life that he
had missed his vocation, that he had
made a false start, he simply backed
up and started over again. He dis
covered he had been "cut out" for a
lawyer but had been spoiled in the
making" Very well; he would make
himself over.
1t is safe to predict that with his mi
tiative and nerve in taking up the
study of the law at forty-fve Mr.
White will succeed in the practice Of it,
The fact is most men grow old and
die prematurely because they lose in
terest in life.
Mr.. White is as keen in his new
born zest for the law as any man of
twenty-five. His plans are projected
far into the future years, like a boys
plans. He will begin to live his real
life at a time when most men begin
to die.
And this optimistic viewpoint will
keep him young.
He does not propose that his life
shall slowly dribble away drop by
drop. Contrariwise-
He prefers to go over the precipice
with the full sweep and rush of Mag
ara!
If you would grow old rapidly and
die early, nope in your chimney corner
and dream only the dreams of the past.
II you would live long in the land,
renew your youth by dreams of the
future.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
SWOLLEN FORTUNES.

The Grass extravaganza of gilded
New York in all of it's sordidness is
revealed by the testimony in the Gould
divorce case.
For instance
Mrs. Gould admitted having spent
S224,000 in a single year upon herself.
She told the court she could not pos
sibly buy her gowns for less than
$4,000 per year.
Which somewhat gilds the lily Of ex-
| travagance.
George Gould testified his father left
an estate of $So,0O0.O00; that the in
come from this estate for each of the
Jay Gould heirs was $4,000 a week,
! $7S0,0O0 a year or nearly $5,000,000
yearly for the six children.
A sum sufficient to keep the wolf a
good way from the door.
Now
Aside from the showing of wasteful-
ness and stopper pulling dissipation
and social dirt, one Of the lessons from
this divorce suit, which has drawn its
slow, salacious length through the
courts, is this one:
We need in this country an inner
itance and an income tax law.
Under a reasonable Inheritance tax
law the huge estate Of Jay Gould
would have yielded to the federal gov
eminent not less than 100000. In
some European states so large a for
tune would have been taxed $20,-
100000, or % per cent.
And the Gould estate is but one of
several large American family for
tunes.
Also, on the basis of per cent in
come tax, a reasonably low levy, the
government would receive from the
100000 incomes an annual tax re-
turn of S250,000.
Would such taxes work a hardship?
Evidently no. Mr.. Gould's tesd-
mony is that, despite the large sums
spent on the Gould castle" and an
ultra extravagant wife. he was unable
TO spend all his income. He says he
saved from this income since his
fathers death the tidy sum of $10,-
OoO,ODO.
Castellane spent Annals share or as
much as he could get his hands on, and
Helen gives away much Of hers in
charity.
A reasonable tax would be only a
drop in the bucket to these people.
Mrs. Gould airily told the court that
her suit of Hotel Belmont rooms |
cost $500 a week. her automobiles $500
a month and her servants $4,000. the
least lady can get through on"
Moral.-There is one way to stop the
growth of swollen fortunes" to put
a bride on prodigality and to.equalize
the burdens of taxation. and that way
is to
Tax large inheritances and large in-
comes.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

There are three important links in
the chain of human life, each insep-
arably linked to the others in this
order:
character-destiny
Habit makes character, and charac-
ter determines destiny.
Habits are grooves cut into the mind.
Deeply cut by long continuance, they
form character.
The very meaning of the word
Character is "cut in" A mans char
acter is literally made by the channels
or grooves cut into his brain cells by
long continued habit.
Habits are good or bad, being
craven into the mind by usage.
Many a forceful individuality has
failed of being all it should be because
Of bad habits.
Byron and Sheridan and Keats were
slaves of the drink habit. Voltaire and
Balzac wrecked their nervous systems
by the excessive use Of strong coffee.
Neither Daniel Webster nor bril-
liant Dick Yates, war governor of ILL
nois, could make a speech without be-
ing filed with liquor.
That is to say, these men thought
they could not speak without stim-
ulants, and thoughts, long continued,
are real things-hablts.
On the other hand, Abraham Lincoln
had no bad habits. The grooves of his
mind made for good character.
Moreover
Habits are recorded in the body as
well as in the mind. Habits shape the
character of the body and determine
its destiny.
Doctors will tell you that most of our
diseases are caused by the unnatural
habits of civilized life.
Is 1t not strange that the only ami
NAL that reasons should reason itself
into habits that will injure It both in
mind and body?
Freedom from bad habits is true
freedom.
1t is a royal struggle to tackle your
bad habit and overcome It. You can
do that only by cutting in" new chan
nels of thought-a painful operation.
Therefore the Importance Of cutting
the grooves Of the child's brain cells
by its doing over and over again the |
right things until the channels are
deeply craven.
Teacher and parent must form the
habits that determine character-and
destiny.
The three-linked chain holds.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23

Among them was a soup ladle. cheap.
but likely to appeal to a woman. so the
old woman in an absent moment said.
"0h. wish had one OF those" and
she had IT. The old man
was so enraged because his wife had
thrown away one valua-
bic wish that he retorted. Il wish that
was stuck down your throat" and i'm
mediately this was done. Therpupon
be was at once sorry at what be
wished. and the only thing left TO do
was to wish the ladle out again. So
all three wishes went for naught
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served, went to the railroad static,
and thence to Joliet.
What had he done9
Why should the gray haired Judge
so long honored by his fellow men
SLOUGH through back alleys to take nm
| his lite as a convict?
Crooked banking.
That is to say. this was the crime on
which he was held to the grand jury
and convicted. But really Smith was
guilty Of
| Speculation!
He speculated on the board of trade
while he was on the bench, and when
he went into banking the fever Of
| speculation was still in his veins.
The judge was found guilty of fraud
and deception as a banker He was
sentenced for that crime. But his real
crime was
Speculation!
The court could not punish Smith for
specializing, because there is no law on
the statue books against that kind
of gambling. Nevertheless speculation
created the necessity for the other
crime.
Warden Murphy says the case of
Smith has no parallel in the ANNALS of
the penitentiary. Never before has a
jurist of the dignity of Smiths posi-
ton been sent to state prison.
1t was a triumph of justice.
Strong influences interviewed in be-
half of the banker judge. There was
a long legal fight. but finally Justice
that justice this stern judge so often
evoked for others-overtook him.
1t was pitiful-
Pitiful when this old man stood at
the threshold of his home and took a
last sweeping glance at the familiar
things of a thirty years residence
kissed his old wife goodby and then
walked heavily away.
Pitiful, but another warning against
the insidious tempter-
Speculation.
1t was pitiful when the wife stood
at that back door, voiceless and be-
reft, gazing with unseeing eyes at the
evidences about her of fifty years Of
happy married life.
Pitiful, but
Behind the misery and the desolation
grinned the fell instigator of all the
ruin
Speculation!
His Passport.
On one occasion Gustave Dore, the
artist, lost his passport while on a tour
in Switzerland At Lucerne he asked
to be allowed to speak to the mayor
to whom he gave his name.
"You say that you are NJ. Gustave
Dore, and | believe you" said the
mayor, but" and he produced a piece
of paper and a pencil, you can easily
prove it."
Dore looked around him and saw
some peasants selling potatoes in the
street. With a few clever touches he
reproduced the homely scene and, APP
pending his name to the sketch, pre-
sented it to the mayor.
your passport is all right" remark
ed the official, "but you must allow me
to keep 1t and to offer you in return
one of the ordinary form"
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Brutal Indifference.

at seems since his marriage Jack
Thornley, has developed into perfect
brute"
you surprise me! What has BE
done"
"Why, the other night while his
wife was RECALLING him with all the
particulars of that choice Verifast
scandal she noticed that he seemed
very quiet And what do you think!
He was sound asleepr'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
Marted All Thr.. Mi,h..

An Irish legend has IT that a good
fairy once visited an old couple and
promised them that any three wishes
they would make would be granted.
After racking their brains for some
time in an endeavor TO discover what
they desired most the couple decided
to visit the county fair to see II some
thing there would suggest what they
wanted They did 50. and. after ram
bling around all day and not seeing
anything that exactly suited them. to-
ward evening they found themselves
before a display Of kitchen utensils.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
ELLEN E. TURNER'S WILL.
STATE OF VERMONT

District Of Bradford Sc
In Probate Court. held at Thetford, in and for
said District. on the 9th day Of July, A. d.
1909.
AN INSTRUMENT purporting to be the last Will
and Testament of Ellen E. Turner late of
Thetford in said district, deceased, being pre-
sented TO the Court by Mills ID Barber
the executor named therein for probate.
II 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 Center on the 2Oth
day of Aug. A d 1909, and show cause IL any
they may have, against the Probate of said will:
for which purpose it is further ordered. that a
copy Of the record of this order be published
three weeks successfully in the United Opinion,
a newspaper printed at Bradford. previous to
said time appointed for hearing.
By the court Attest,
SIN. GLEASON,
I
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23

An old lady was going down in the
cage in a Cornish mine. She looked
with apprehension at the rope, and
asked the miner anxiously: MY man,
are you sure this rope is quite safer"
"Well, num-" was the cheerful an
swer, "these ropes is guaranteed to
last exactly six months, and this amt
due to be renewed till tomorrow
Birmingham Mail.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
JANET wYLIE COLES WILL.
- ~ .nr- I'M MONT

District Of Bradford, ss
In Probate Court. held at Thetfordi IN and for
said District on the 18th day OF July. A. ID.
1909. ,,--,,
An INSTRUMENT purporting 70 be the lsst VIII
and Tesfament Of Janet Wylie Cole late Of New
bury in aid district deceased beng presented 20
Court nv F.1uin Henderson, one o. the executors
$500 ,As-.;n- for Probate: TVS ordered BY
81 Court that all persons concerned therein be
potised 10 appear At session Of sad Court TO Be
-. 800 - Probate Of5ce in said 1hetford. Vt
-. ~. % iav Of August, A. ID. 1909
"a sbcw cause. IL any they may have.
.s.i,.f he Probate Of said vii: for which pur-
-. I, n f,-tber ordered that = copy Of the
49, - M order be published three weeks
.,cs.-.;vriv 10 The United Opinion. Newspaper
1900 Al Bradford previous 70 said time ap-
pointed for hesring. -.
. Sy '0s s.M. GLEA SON
40 Judge
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
A Bitter Disappointment.

%When / was in Paris remarked
the collector Of curios, Il discovered
I'm a bOokstall a volume which / knew
at FIRST glance to be Of extraordinary
value. I could scarcely believe my
good luck. Breathless, l inquired the
price Of the dealer. Just think Of it,
could have had that treasure for a
songr'
well. why didn't you get it,"
ssNever could sing a note In my life. I"
cried the collector. bursting into tears
New York Times.
what the wind gathers the devil
Proverb.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
NELSON B TEwKsBURY's ESTATE

. TATE OF VERMONT. In probate
- DISTRICT OF BRADFoRD, ss Court held at
Bradford in and for said District on the 18th day
Of July, A. D., 1909.
A. b. Tewksbury administrator 81 the e.
tate OF Nelson b. Tewksbury late Of Newbury in
said istrict deceased makes application 20 said
Court for license 10 sell all Of the real estate Of
said deceased situated in this State. te wit: al
real estate and all intdrest in all real estate rep
resent ing that the sale thereof is necessary for
the purpose of paying debts and settling estate
Whereupon. Il Is ordered by said Court. that
said application be referred 70 q session thereof;
TO be held at the Probate Office in said Thetford
on The 9TH day Of Aag. A. D., 1909. for hearing
and decision thereon. and IL IL further ordered
that all persons interested be notified hereof. by
publication Of notice Of said application and
order thereon three weeks successfully 10 the
United Opinion, q newspaper published at Brad
ford in this State. and which circulafes In the
neighborhood OF those interested before said
time Of hearing. that they may appear at said
time and place, and Il they see cause object
thereto.
BY the Court.
~ SIN GLEASON. Judge.
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LEGAL.

oBArECoURrs-BRADFoRD DIsrRIcr l906-t7
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 Deem
ber 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.M. GLEASON. Judge.
Thetford Center. VI. Dec. rs. 1906.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
A PITIFuL WARNING.

Abner Smith, the wrecker OF the
Bank of America, Chicago, and for
ten years circuit Judge in that city,
is now a convict in the Joliet peniten-
tiary.
He voluntarily knocked at the door
Of the big bastile and asked to be ad-
mitted.
When he learned the supreme court
had denied his last appeal. Smith, In
order to avoid publicity. quietly left
his home by the back door and, unob-
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23

The conflict called the Battle OF the
Nations" was the battle OF Leipsic. II
was fought on Oct 1918. 1913. be
tween the soldiers OF Russia. Prussia.
Austria. Sweden. Denmark and Hol-
land. under Schwarzenberg. on the one
side. and NapoleOn's army OF allies. on
the other IL was one OF the greatest
battles of modern times A half mil
lion Of meo were engaged. and the
casualties on both sides were $4,000
10 resulted In overwhelming defeat for
Napoleon and the liberation Of Ger
many. Troops from every cation OF
Europe participated In Il. hence thu
Battle of Nations--
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
LOVE STORY OF TopAY.

Strong soul stuff and love make a
great combination.
Bristow Draper. ex-society man, ex-
Harvard student. foreman In a cotton
mill, has both qualities
This is the story:
Draper Is the son OF Governor Draper
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23

President Taft and Congressman Ford
ney Did Not Get Down to Business.
Legislation Regarding Water Power.
Sincere, if Not comPIimentary-Talk
of Capital.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1909-07-23
Business Interests Represented.
He Didn't Bet.

"a man in my county" said a Kan
sas congressman. was always anxious
to bet on bis game Of checkers. One
time be was about to play a game for
SO with a fellow called Three Fin
gered Jack. Suddenly one Of his
friends exclaimed:
Don't bet. Charlie. Don't you
know that fellow wore OF two fingers
playing checkersl That's why he's
called Three Fingered Jack
. That settled It. The bet was never
made. A man who had worn OF two
fingers by brushing them up and down
the checkerboand was too much for
my friend --Ksnsas City Journal
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Accomplished as Well as Rich.

Mr.. Guggenheim Of Colorado is not
only the richest man in the senate,
but also is ranked as the most accom-
plished linguist in that branch Of con-
gress. He is credited with being COM
plete master OF four or five languages,
having as a youth been sent abroad to
specially study foreign tongues. He
speaks French, German. Spanish and
italian and. having knocked about so
much I'm the far west. is said to under
stand tolerably well several Of the In
dian dialects. He is yet in the prime
Of life, being only forty-one years Of
age. CHARLES w. ARTHUR.
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Signals For National Forests.
The e.ttI, Of A., Nations.

CHARLES w. ARTHUR
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WORKING FOR
UNCLE SAM.
officials Think II Should Not Be
Made a CinCh.
SERVICE TO Be INVESTIGATED

Those Occupying CIerkships Must
Earn Their Pay or ouit-Seoretary
Nagel's ldeas-Leeslators at Seaside
Resorts-Summer Gossip of the Ma
tional Capital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-04
PERSON AIS.

Captain Burk OF the steamer Du-
buque which recently put up in the
canal for the winter will remain IN
the city for about a week before re-
turning to his home in st. Louis.
Carl Megchelson left this morning
for Vincennes to resume his duties as
school teacher. He attended the Lake
Forest-Monmouth football game at
Monmouth Saturday he having attend
ed the latter school.
Congressman James Mckinney OF
Aledo, Ill, was in the city for short
time last evening. He has been MAX
ing a trip over his district and came
across on the Iowa side to see his
friends In Keokuk. Mr.. Mckinney has
just returned from a trip south with
the presidential party and he says the
ovations to President Taft were I'M
mense and enthusiastic. Mr.. Taft is
very popular. Mr.. Mckinney says that
the deep waterway project is receiv-
ing a great impetus and that the river
will be improved as per the deep wa
terway plan when the right method is
found by engineers.