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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
Hudson Bay.

We come now to Lieutenant Cor.
don's observations upon the natural
history of the country, and first of all
as to it's human inhabitants. These
are very scanty, and, with the excep-
tion Of few white men at the traders
post, are solely Eskimos. On the
north side Of the strait they are quite
familiar with the ways of the white
men, and seem to be highly pleased at
the prospect of increased intercourse
with them. Occasionally one is met
with who has mastered the English
tongue, but not often. Many others
understand well enough what is said
to them in that language, although
they can not be persuaded to speak
it, They are particularly fond of any
article Of civilized clothing, and the
head-man at the North Bluff manifes-
ted no small pride at the possession of
stand-up collar, which he displayed
to the utmost advantage. In charac-
ter they are docile, amiable, and will
ing to work. When landing the stores
and coal at North Bluff they worked
all day along with the men, carrying
heavy weights up over the rocks, and
toiling away as cheerily and heartily as
could be desired, asking no other re-
muneration than biscuits, of which
commodity they are inordinately fond.
These people have no farinaceous food
of any kind, and, as consequence, the
children are not weaned untilthey reach
| the age of three or four years. The
families are small, there rarely being
more than two or three children, and,
although early marriages are the rule,
their numbers must be diminishing,
because signs of their presence were
met with everywhere, while the people
themselves were found at only three
six places along the straits, and there
are only some five or six families
known between Cape Chudleigh and
Nachvak. Along the Labrador coast
the Eskimos gather in small settlements
around the Moravian mission-stations.
Main is considered the largest settle
ment, and its Eskimo population does
net exceed two hundred souls Those
at the stations are all educated, being
language, and according to the mis-
sionaries. are regular attendants at
church, and very fond of music-two
excellent and hopeful traits certainly.
| -Popular Science Monthly.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
.JntIanl.

The Eym-Fiord and its branches di-
vide northern Jutland into several is
lands of irregular shape. A triweekly
passenger steamer connects all the
ports, and there are few towns Of
Importance which do not have railway
communication with the south. The
character of this extreme end Of Jut-
land, as we saw it from the steamer on
the Lynn Fiord, varies from east to
west to correspond with the difference
between the Cattegat and the
North Seas. The former, a
well-sheltered, landlocked gulf,
washes pleasant beaches bord-
cred by gentle slopes and sand
dunes, while the boisterous North Sea
dashes its breakers at the foot of high
cliffs. and astunted, Hardy vegetation
clings with difficulty to the submits
of wind-swept hills. Trees are scarce
in all northern Jutland, although the
rest of the peninsula is well wooded
and fertile. North of the Lym-Foird
we saw scarcely enough trees to make
a days fire for an Adirondack sports
man. Peat bogs abound all over Jut-
land, and the cutting and stacking of
peat is the only visible industry in
very large territory. The churches are
the only notewt ny architectural feat
ures, and indeed it is on the churches
alone that may be found specimens OF
the characteristic construction and or.
namentation which mark distinct
artistic period in the history of Den
mark. Barren, inhospitable people
they are, too, most Of them. The peo
pie, like the most of the Englanders
have generally erected the houses OF
worship on the most exposed point ir
the landscape, where the winter blasts
and the summer sun make it alike un
comfortable the year round. A
weather-beaten stone church on a bar
rem hilltop in Jutland is, next to th'
sepulchral structures of the New Eng
land coast, the most forbldding of al
religious edifices.-Harpers.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Truth needs no borrowed wealth.

Truth needs no borrowed wealth.
Hope is the matchless sanative Of
life.
Slanderers are cursed with their
own echo.
Want of prudence is too frequently
want of virtue.
Three things to avoid-idleness, 10.
quacity and hippant jesting.
The power to do great things gener-
ally arises from the willingness to do
small things.
There are few, very few, that Will
own themselves In mistake, though
oil the world deem them mistaken.
1t is strange how often we think
lightly Of the gifts we have and wish
for those that providence has denied.
Obstinancy and contradiction are
like a paper kite: they are only kept
up SO long as you pull against them.
Every day is little life, and our
whole life is but day repeated.
Therefore live every day as it would
be the last.
The moderate are often called cold
by men who think themselves more
warm than other men because tran
sient glow comes over them.
Manners are the ornament of action;
and there is a way Of speaking kind
word, or of doing kind thing, which
greatly enhances their value.
The tone of good company is mark
ed by the absence of personalities.
Among well informed persons there
are plenty of topics to discuss, without
giving pain to any one present-with-
out submitting to act the part of a
butt, or of that poorer creature, the
wag that plays upon him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
A Barrel Hammock.

Tho season for hammocks is here,
says writer in an exchange, and l
will tell you how to make comforta
bic, inexpensive one Bring your old
-four barrel from the cellar or store
room, knock it to pieces, clean and
PAINT the slaves. Procure rope foL +
times in length of the place where it
is to be suspended. and in size little
larger than clothes line Now halve
the rope, double each piece in the mid
die, and commencing two yards or sc
from the end. weave it over and under
each stave about three inches from the
end of each one, which will bring the
rope crossed between each; do both
sides the same and your hammock is
complete One end of the rope should
lie fastened up higher than the other,
At first this may not seem firm, but
when there is any weight on it, the
rope becomes 'taut' and secure.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
PRICE THREE CENTS
Ginseng.

A parliamentary paper contains tho
account of journey made by the Con-
sul-General Of Great Britain in Corea.
Some interesting information is given
with regard to the production Of the
famous drug ginseng, SO priced as a
tonic by the Chinese. 1t is grown
from seed which is sown in March.
The seedlings are planted out in beds
raised foot above the level Of the
surrounding soil, bordered with up
right states, and covered in from sun
and rain by sheds Of reeds, well closed
in except toward the north side, where
they are left open. In the first or sec
ond year the ginseng plant.is only two
or three inches high, and has only two
leaves. 1t is transplanted frequently
during this period. In the fourth
year the stem is about six inches high.
with four horizontal leaves standing
out from 1t at right angles, and in the
fifth year a strong. healthy plant has
reached maturity. though it is more
usual not to take it up until it has
reached the sixth season. Ordinary
ginseng is prepared by simply drying
the root in the sun or over charcoal
fire. To make red or clarified ginseng,
the root is placed in wicker baskets,
which are put in large earthenware
vessel with closely fitting cover, and
pierced at the bottom with holes. 1t
is then placed over boiling water, and
steamed for about four hours.
Ginseng was for centuries regarded
as a very elixir of life all over the
East; and especially in China and
Japan. Its properties were supposed
to be miraculous, but they were gen.
orally supposed to be confined to the
Corean ginseng. But its enormous
price put it out of the reach of the
poorer classes. The wild ginseng of
Corea has frequently fetched twenty
times its weight in silver in China.
The export from Coroa is strict mo-
nopoly, which affords a considerable
revenue, and is said to be the kings
personal perquisite. Death is thepun-
ishment for smuggling it out of the
country. The total export is only
about $4,000 pounds avoirdupois.-
Scientific american.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
Tho Butterflies.

They fly to the milliners' bowers.
To welcome the coming of Spring;
They find there their favorite flowers
From garden of peasant or kingi
They fit from the choicest exotic
Perehance to the commoncst wcodS
For Fashions DEGREES are despotic
As laws of tho Pcrsians and Nlcdcs,
Here sunnowers reign for season
With lilies exclusive and rare,
And buttercups bloom without reason
Near orchids of thorough air;
And here arc loose clusters orroses,
And there arc forget-me-nots blue,
With lunches of wild woodland posios.
Besprinkled with crystalline dew.
The milliner models her treasures,
silk, satin, and laces combined,
Into manifold wonders and pleasures
For the butterfly tastes OF mankind;
Then the dear dainty creatures assemble
Society's butterfly band
And flutter and quivor and tremble
With joy at her slightest command
She dresses each pretty newcomer
In marvellous patterns and shades.
Such as butterflies love, in the summer,
To wear among forests and gladcs-
In robes of silvery simmer,
In raiment of purple and gold,
In garments that glitter and glimmcr
With radiant beauties untold.
They will revel in meadows and mounta ins,
They will dance by the old ocean side,
They will sip from the sweet flowing fountains
Which Nature and Fashion provide,
They will rival the rainbow in color,
They will rest where the nightingale sings,
And this working day world would be duller
Were. it not for the butterflies wings.
-yNartha c. Cook in The Basar.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

An Englishman has offered prize
of S2500 "for the invention or discov-
cry of an economical. efficient and safe
subitute for gunpowder and other ex-
plosives employed in the getting OF
coal"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

The Canadians are going to make
whisky and tobacco pay for the war
in the Northwest. The internal re-
venue tax on whisky is to be raised
from 81 to $l.25 gallon, and that on
tobacco from twelve to twenty cents a
pound.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

Washington is remarkably religi-
Gus city. Statistics show $50 churches,
with 1851 members. OF this total
membership. however, about $1,000
are In the eolored ehurehas
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

Statistics show that murder in this
country has reached an astonishing de-
gree Of frequency. and that the sacred
ness of human life is held more light
y every year. In 1888 there were
$3.50 murders; the number increased
20 ID, ,397 in 1884.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

Jsere are only two regular savings
banks in Chicago, and the deposits in
such banks in the whole state of Illi-
nois only reach million dollars. This
Is partly due to the fact that Western
people on small incomes don't save as
the corresponding class in the East
does, and partly to the large number
of savings banks failures after the big
Chicago fire Of 1871.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

1t seems curious that, though the
press in England is declared to be
free, the publication of the Scriptures
is still under an ancient restraint.
Only the presses of the great univer-
sites can print copies of the Bible;
and they sometimes seize on all the
advantages secured them by their
valuable monopoly. In speaking of
the Revised Version of the Old Testa-
ment, the London Times says: "It is
announced that the Old Testament is
not to be published separately, except
in a somewhat costly form, and that
in the cheaper editions it will be
bound up and sold as one volume with
the New. They who have the New
already by itself must buy it over again
with the Old. Though buyers of the
Revised New Testament have no lega
redress. they undoubtedly are threat
ened with a breach of moral faith.
They were entitled, when offered half
TIE Revised Version separately, to
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

White muslin parasols, matching the
muslin bonnets are novelty for sum.
iaeI,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

In hotels throughout Massachusetts,
the location of stairs and fire escapes
is marked by the distinctive device Of
red lamps. just as the proximity of a
lire alarm box in New York is indt-
Gated by the color of the nearest street
lamp. In case of q sudden alarm the
transient guest in Il Massachusetts,
hotel need never be bewildered, for
the red lantern guides him to the
dearest way of egress. In every hall
there is also a gong noisy enough to
almost wake deaf man. These pre-
cautions are enforced by law.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

Or. Crichton Browne states that
headaches are increasing among chill
dren in England attending schools
where methodical and effective venti-
lation is carried out, and such head
aches can only be traced to the Incl
dence of intellectual work upon brains
of low educability or badly nourished,
and so easily fatigued and exhausted.
Headaches in children used to be rare,
and were regarded as almost always
importing organic disease of the brain,
but they are now Of daily occurrence.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

A London doctor has published
some curious comparative statistics
IN the longevity of public and pro-
'essional men. He found that the
average age at death of the twenty
i've most prominent American states
men during the last hundred years
@as GO. The average of an equal
aumber of English statesmen was &c
years = practically the same. He
thought the latter did more work at an
advanced age. The difference in favor
Of English, as compared with Ameri-
can, political life was brought out by
comparing the ages at death of men,
bers of the British Parliament with
those of the United States Congress
who died between 1860 and 1884.
Of our Senators, SO gave an average
Of 81 years; l46 Representatives aver
aged SIS years, and the average for
both was SO. l2l members of Parlia-
ment averaged 68 years at death.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

Iiofi an Garages at all hours. Persons
cnfrit! o a'l surrounding points upon arrival
Of l;ai..s. Special accomp1oda' ions 20 ekeuI.
sino ~ sies. Good teams Rud attentive dI.
ttrs. g
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

Generally speaking the discovery of
good coal in any country having the
slightest pretense to civilization is an
earnest of assured progress. An ex-
tensive bed of coal has been found in
Mexico, near the line of the Mexican
Central Railway and about midway
between El Paso del Norte and the
City of Mexico, and has given ground
for the belief that tho difficulties
which Mexican railway and mining
interests have to encounter from scar
city of fuel will soon be greatly less
ened.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18
SITTER OFFICE, LONDONDERRY, VT,

vs. Entered at tho post-oilico at South
Londonderry, as 5ccond-c ass matter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-06-18

In the central agricultural districts
Of Russia, the whole number Of inhabit-
ed houses is nearly 100000 and of
these only about $4,000 are built of
stone. In the manufacturing PROV
noes there are $500 stone houses in
total of 100000 dwellings. These
igures give an idea of the extent to
which wood is used for house building
n Russia, and the demand is pretty
constant, for fire is so frequent that,
according to trustworthy estimates,
wooden Russia is wholly burned down
about once in every seven years. A
great deal is also used in the con-
struction of boats to ply the Russian
waters, as one-quarter of the entire
number of vessels thus employed are
destroyed annually.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-19
Ague-shake "a Asuferats

~ sa..s1.st y 4
WHO resort to Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters, experieilce speedier and more con-
pleteFslief them they can hope to do by
the use of duinine. This we'll authenti-
Gated fact is of itself Sufficient to have
establlshed highs-reputation for the
Bltters. But the article is not q specific
merely for the various forms of .mala-
rial disease, it endows the system with a
degree Of vig9lS and reforms Its 3irregug
iarities with n certainty, that constitutes
ITS best defence ls,t against disorders of the
stomach, liver and bowels, specially rife
where the atmosphere and water are
miasma tainted. Fever and ague, bilious
remittent, dumb ague and ague cake are
remedied and prevented 'by it, and it
also removes. dyspepsia, constipation,
rheumatism, &c Take this medicine on
the first indication that the system, is out
of order, and rest assured that you will
be grateful for tho hint. '..F.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-19
LAND FOR SALE,

WILL sell to the chighcst bidder at Pick
4 ems G. H., $. e., on .Salcday in Dcccm
hcrl8S5, the following TR CTS Of LIND,
II NOT sold privately before that time viz:
lst Tract in the western part of the
prosperous town of E%s'cy, on the North
side of the Railroad, adjoining NIauldin,
smith, Williams and others, containing
30-lOO acres more or less.
2d. Tract on the North side Of the r,
r., adjoining Union Church, No. 3, Ken
ncmorc, llollingSworth and others, con-
tanning i04 80 acres, more or less. =.
3d. A Tract on the South side of the r,
r., adjoining Kcmcmorc, Mauldin; Hol-
llngsworth No. 2, and others, containing
l6l l-lO acres, more or less.
The number OF acres in each tract, in
clndoS the right OF way to the Railrond.
Terms, Onc-third cash, the remainder on
a credit Of one aud two years in equal an
nuaI Instruments, with interest from day
OF sale, at ten per cent per anntm
For further particulars, and pIats of each
tract, call on c. J.. ItOLLTNGSWORTH,
my attorney at Pickcns G H., 8. q.
ABNER MU LINK.
nov 10,
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-19
Restoration After Actual Death
Frank Leslie's Illustrated.

LIS restoration of life to tho dead to
crown the achievements of this centuryp
Several noted savans of Europe agree
that life may be restored after actual
death, III many cases, and they are now
experimenting with a view to prove it,
although they can never hope TO change
80 dead sure thing as the fact the best
and cheapest paints, oils and grass seeIs
are for sale by Sloan Bros, Greenville.
BY combining artificial circulation with
artificial respiration, dog was restored
to life an hour and five minutes, after
having been killed when the heart was
still and cold, and the limbs were beoom-
ing rigid, Poisoned frogs wore restored
70 life after being nine days dead, and
when putrefactiOn haG begun. The eff.
feet OF peroxide of hydrogen in starting
tLs blood and restoring heat to reallY
dead body isstartling, and distingniah.
60 physiolan affirms that "a drowned or
suliocated mon is not hopelessly dead 40
long as the bodily organs remain min.
lnred by violence or disease, and the
b!ood remains sufficiently LIQUID to no
set N motion artiRcially and snnnlieJ
STith little oxygen to start the obem;noi
mt yenents Of life" Now let the hone
fra theorists give some results of 4bLe;r
i raetiee on human beings. ~, .,s -
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-19
What the Poor Man Demands,

The poor man who is included in that
greater proportion Of the public who are
compelled to study economy in purchas-
ing clothing, has a right, first, to expect
civil and courteous treatment, second, to
hear truthful statements regarding the
quality and durability of the goods he
desires to purchase, and, third, (and un-
doubtedly the most important consitlora-
ton to him) he has right to expect and
domand full value for every Investment
of his well-earned wages. If he reads
our advertisement Offering pair Of Serv-
lceablo Working Pants for $65 cents, 81,
or $l.25, he has evory reasonable right
to demand these goods. If we offer to
soil good and durable Suit for 81 or S5
ne Will, OF course, expect us to produce
the garments on demand. Then, again,
II he desires to buy Chinchilla Ovor.
coat for $5 or Sc, lie has q right to ex-
pect to buy just what we advertise for
that much money. We have the Best
Clothing for Poor Men in Greenvillc,
end we sell these goods ut poor mems
pllces. We know what the working
classes demand and we can meet these
demands satisfactorily and promptly
we want poor mon and workingmen to
visit us-to examine the stock wo have
provided especially to meot their de-
mands and suit their purses at the Ex
celsior Clothing House, Greenville, S. G.
IL. RoTsCHILD, Prop.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-19
Let Charlcston Rest.

Dea't We wish that airline aud air
castle railroad builders would let Char
lesion rest, rat least ten days2 Tie Angus
to correspondent of ftheNews and Courier
gives long account of . proposed grand
trunk line from Chasleston vim Chata-
nooga to Kansas, Missouri. There is
hardly q paragraph in the letter that does
aot tell OF its great importance to Char
eston. Would it not be better to run
nat road from Port Royal, or Savannah
ct Charleston rest. She is looking to
washington for aid to deepen the channel
to her port, she will then have free access
to the Atlantic, and may desire to spend
the summer on some Of the islands where
railroads cease from troubling.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-19
Executor s Sale Of Land
AT LIBERTY STATION.

PY virtue of the power bestowed upon
- me. by the last Will anl Testament of
Catherine Templeton, deueased, late of
the county Of Pickens, will offer for
sale at public outcry, to She highest bid
dor, on the 3D. day ClHURSDAY) of
noxt DECEMBER, the following LOTS
OF LAND situate lying and being i'll
the Town of Liberty, Ar Limo Railroad,
Pickens county, South Carolina. con
tnining the following number Of acres,
to w.t.
No. l, IS acres, more or less.
No. 2, 25l acres, more OF less
No. y, l6 acres, moro or less.
NO. 4, IN acres, more or less.
No. 5, 20 acres, more or less.
Also, thirteen other Lots in tho snil
town, all Of which. will be pointed outby
the Executor on day of sale.
Terms OF SALE-Ono half tho purch
ase money cash Oh day Of sale, balance
on credit of twelve months. purchaser
to give bond and mortgage of lots to
secure credit portion, the samo to bear
interest from day Of sale. Purchasers to
pay for papers and recording tho same.
DAVID II. TEAIPLErON,
Executor.
ri" The Eosley Messenger copy three
times.
nov 10 1898 0