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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
WISE WORDS.

1t is no use to recommend the truth by
lying about it.
An honest man is never defeated SC
long as he keeps at il.
Death is the dropping of the flower
that the fruit may swell.
No one progresses while they arc rid,
ing upon the efforts OF others.
The wicked things that man will do
for money, a woman will do for Il man.
True independence of character Is
derived from Il jus. Judgment Of ones
self.
Every individual who has work to do
in this world, and does it, needs vaca.
tio,.
True happiness consists not in the
multitude of friends, but in the worth
and choice.
Progress is so dependent upon personal
energy that the man in hurry should al.
ways go on foot.
Listening TO some people tell a story is
equal to judging view by what you can
see through a dusty window.
Let tomorrow take care Of itself and
you will find that it will let you take care
OF yourself when ii gets here,
Many girls get married because their
folks are not able to keep them, and find
their husbands in the same fix.
The man who throws away his own
thoughts and loads up with Others will
be burdened Yith appearances.
Extend sympathy to some people and
they begin to cough all the more loudly
to show you how bad they are.
There is nothing more crude than ignor-
ance. but it must be admitted that all
refined elements are but extracts from the
crude.
Some people think that they pay a
debt by telling their creditors every other
day that they have not forgotten that they
owe it.
We spoil everything By hurry. We
are wearing ourselves out as nstion by
our hurry and intensity-too eager to get
a living to be willing to stop 10 live.
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nothing of her loss aud her fright until
they all reached home, Aud even then
she did not mention her suspicion of the
identity of the thief, saying to me, in a
wise, grave tone she has;
''lf we let him know we suspect him,
Mr., Barclay may run away. AS it is, he
actually came this morning to plead a
sudden illness last evening"
This made us quite sure that he was
unaware of Ellie's recognition OF his con-
spicuously ugly scarf-piu. What fool
as well as rogue he must be
sent up to town for Hunt, who has
been known TO me as clever de-
,ective for long time, aud he shadows"
our dandy thief, day and night 1t is
pretty sure that he has not yet left
Meadowluuds, OF sent his treasure away
by post or by express, Having it still in
his possession, VIC may have a reasonable
hope OF its recovery.
Ellie frcts dreadfully over the heart
break it will be to her cousin to find her
betrothcd a highway robber, but surely
IL is better to know it now than later,
and | always thought her imagination
was more captivated than her heart.
Jack Trueman is such o fine fellow, that
one cannot we'll understand an infatuation
that passes him by to accept Alfred
Barclay.
made some inquiry about the fellow
to-day. He brought good letters here, to
Judge Stone and some Of our leading
people, and he is good lawyer, the
Judge says. HIM! wonder what the
Judge will say when his dinner guest
appears in the dock as a thief.
Somehow think Mr.. Barclay is n
novice at this sort of thing. Viewing
him with professional eye, / can see
tbs, he is suffering intensely from nervous
excitement, kind of dread that is tell
ing very fast upon what can never have
been shong constitution, Most of all
he watches Ellie, who talks frankly OF
her loss in his presence, describes the
thief, always emitting his scarf-pin, and
gives graphic account of her own fright,
and her grief at the destruction of some
rare old lace she wore as scarf. Al
such times Mr.. Barclay becomes rather
CHASTITY in pallor, and moistens his lip:
frequently, while his eyes have hunted
expression, which all delights that wicked
little Ellie sitting there, 'piling up th'
agony" for his benefit and mine. won
der her cousin does not suspect anything
and am almost sure Jack is puzzling hi
honest brains over some vague suspicion
There seems nothing to do until tn
fellow tries to leave here, when he will
certainly take his treasure with him, ant
then Hunt is ready for him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
SELECT SETTINGS.

The potato is native of Peru.
The average of human life is thirty,
eight years.
The number of men is almost equal to
that of women.
A game of whist is 70 be played over
the telephone.
1t is only one person among u thousand
who becomes a centenarian.
The biggest ruby in the world is found
in the Gar of Russia's crown.
A Meadvillc penn rooster whipped
an owl, dog and two roosters.
A snow white coon, with pink eyes,
was trapped near GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
The Prince of Wales thinks the type
writer the biggest invention Of the age.
The canine sentinels. now being trained
in Northern France, learn their duties
quickly.
Ii requires annually $1,000 tons of
binder Irvine to bind the grain crops of
the country.
One-fourth of the population Of the
earth die before they attain the age of
seventeen years.
John Frey, of Wind Gap, Penn, who
died recently, had sixteen children. His
father had twenty three.
The Arabian year is lunar, and in the
course Of thirty.two years each month
runs through all the seasons.
The first tin found in America was a
crystal of the oxide of tin found in
Goshen, Conn, by Professor Hitchcock,
of Amherst College.
French wine growers have a supersti.
tious appreciation of comets and expect
good crops, because four comets will be
seen during the summer.
There are three chefs in the royal
kitchen at Athens-a Danish expert for
King George. Russian artist for Queen
Olga, and Partisan Gordon bleu for the
visitors.
The barn in which John Wilkes Booth
was killed was owned by man named
Garrett and was located in Carolina
County, Va, about twenty miles from
Fredericksburg.
Sparrow heads are legal tender among
Michigan youngsters, in lots Of ten. 1t
takes one lot to buy fish pole, and two
will furnish base ball, when they have
been cashed in at the recorders office.
Japan has celebrated the two thousand
five hundred and fifty-ffth anniversary
of the coronation of the first Emperor of
the country, an affair which makes our
little two hundred and fifticth anniver.
saries seem insignificant.
"Angel' was an ancient gold coin,
equal to about ten shillings, stamped
with the figure of an angel, in memory Of
Pope Gregory, that the Pagan English
were so beautiful that if they were Chris
tians they would be angels.
An English naturalist says that the
moth was known 800 years B. G. and
that Cleopatra after losing $40, 900 worth
of fine clothes by him in year, paid an
artisan $4,000 to make her chest of lead
to keep her other store clothes from being
chewed up.
When Rome was an empire the males
wore black for mourning, while the
women indicated their grief by wearing
white garments. In Turkey at the pres.
ent day the mourning hue is violet; ii
China, white; in Egypt, yellow in Eth
opia. brown: in Europe and America
black. The mourning color in Spain
was white until changed by the laws OF
| 1893.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
TIE TWO nRornEns.

IN Palestine, long yearsago-
So runs the legend old,
Where Kedron's sparkling waters flow
Across their sands oigold,
And Mount Morlah lifts his head
Above the sunny plain,
Two brothers owned-as one...'tis said,
A fieldo OF golden grain,
And when the autumn days had coma.
And all the shocks and shesves
Stood waiting for the harvest home,'
Among the whitening leaves,
The elder brother said one night:
"pm stronger far than Saul
NY younger brother. lis but right
That | should give him all
These sheaves upon the plain
We own together So
I'll put with his my stack OF grain,
And he will never know"
Scarce had he left the sheaves of wheat
When quietly there came
Across the field with stealthy feet
On errand just the same,
The younger lad who said; 81 SEQ
Ny brother Simon's need
Is greater lar than mine, for he
Hath wife and child to feed;
And so to him I'll give my sheaveS--
is but fright, know;
And he will never think who leaves
These wheat stacks onhis rows
Nextmornmg when the brothers twain
Began to count their store,
Behold each found his stacks OF grain
To numbera as before!
"Why how is thisg" in great surprise
Each to himself them said:
"iE watch tonight to see who tries
These tricks when Pm abed'
And so, half way across the plain
They met--each one bent Ger
With shocks and sheaves of golden grain
Tc swell his brothers store!
Good Saul aud Smoni Would to-day
More brothers might he found
Who seek each others good alwav,
And in kind deeds abound,
---P'urie Former
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05

When DR.. Sanderson sent for me to
take care of party name OF Barclay
what was suspected of stealing diamond
was sure it was green hand. Let alone
the fellow leaving a party sudden like to
waylay the young lady, no knowing one
would a-wore such Il scarf-pin out show
ing like that. 1t was sharp to be sure,
to keep his mouth shut, but he was new
to the business, he was.
Well, watched him close, and SEE l
to myself, drink'll fetch himl He amt
used to drinking that's sure, but he's
taking to it now. Sure enough, in about
three weeks down goes my man, sick,
dreadful sick, and my doctor, watts pay.
ing me, sent for.
"Rum," says my doctor.
"Rum!' says I.
He was in boarding .housc, and the
doctor he tells him he'll have to have a
nurse for few days and he'll send me.
Hunt" says he to me, "what kind of
4 nurse are you:"
"Fair to middling," says I.
"You can do as you're told, sup
pose?" he says, sharp like.
II can do that" says I.
"Well, he's off his head some" says
the doctor, "and you can just listen to
what he says
Then We walks up stairs to my gentle
mans room, aud the doctor, solemn-like,
/ says to me:
Joseph" my names Tom, but that's
neither here nor there) "Joseph," says
the doctor, ''this gentleman is very ILL.,
threatened with brain-fever, Joseph, and
must be watched careful" says the doc
| tor; "he's to have one of these pills every
hour, Joseph, "and then he gives me about
a dozen directions till the chap on the
bed was fairly green with scare, "and ii
he gets worse, Joseph, come for me"
He said the three words so far down
in his stomach that the poor chap fairly
squirmcd,
Doctor" says I, in sepulchral tone,
"will he recoveri'
"While there Is life there is hope, p"
says the doctor.
Because" says I, "rm skeered of a
corpse"
Gracious goodness. thought our man
would bounce off the bed, he jumped so.
Then the doctor walked off, solemn as
an owl, aud sat down and looked at our
man. There wasn't much Of him, being
he was slim little fellow, and what
with the liquor and the scare, he was
white as dead man, and his eyes rolling
about in his head fearfully. says moth
ing, except what s'pose nurses say to
invaIids, rs to whether he was comfort
able, aud would he like pill now, and
50 on, and about dusk he went off hi:
head.
He didn't say nothing I wanted tc
hear till along near midnight; then h.
clutches me by the arm, and says he:
Glide it. Hide it somewhere else
Somebody may climb up atop o. thu
p wardrobe aud find it. Hide ii in the
hearth, I've hid it i'll forty places and
cant find the right one! Hide it,
= says he
"All right" says |, ''I'll kiver it up
so nobody can't lind 1t.
Then he dozei awhile, and woke up
screeching he was going to die, ant
raved like mailman till morning. Whei
the doctor came he was still at it, and
told him all the news had.
: "The delirium won't last long, say
the doctor; land we must get u con
fession out of him. He's Just working
of the liquor on his b-ain, now, but hi
head will be clear enough by and by.
So lust sat down again, and kept on
eye on my man, and one on the ward
robe.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
STORING POTATOES.


;. rota'oes snouiu Always ne sorted "ilen
olg!hg' WIN the oigSefs that we NOW
use III harvesting crop o' po'a'oes INV
Is no1 50 Hiucn o' tasN "s when .nc mug
OF iorh was aepenoea upon hen IL
can DC aVoloea, potatoes snoui' ho' DC
Jug "hen !ne sol, Is wet Usually h''ie
OF les: airG VIII ciihS 10 the tupe.s.
"hile IN ADDITION II VIII usually require
more time 10 dry them OUT thofoush,y'
IL IS not good economy 10 put away 'he
small potatoes, they are usually OF more
value 'or hog 1eea IMAM anything eise'
ana they can De used now TO a better ao-
vantage ,nah al any time later
Az digsing Is the pest Tune TO seiec'
t,ie seed ana medium SIZED tuDefs IRON
the nils producing the largest number oil
these arc pest TO save Tor TINS purpose,
L
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05

Ellie has her crossl Il was very
simple matter after all. When Mr.. Bar.
clay found we knew the thief, and even
the hiding place, he gave up at once, and
really thought he was glad to get rid
of his spells, He was apparently very
grateful TO be allowed to escape, aud
protested, think with truth, that this
was his first offense. He is heavily IN
debt, and the value of the diamonds
tempted him, but he was thundelstrucs
when told him Ellie recognized him,
and he does not know yet what betrayed
him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
Most Horses Are Either Gray or Bay.

A near-sighted youth, writes James
Payn, on going in for his medical ez.
animation, was advised by that guide,
philosopher and friend, his crammer;
"The doctor will ask you about the
horses on the common; say gray, very
rapidly, for all horses are either gray or
bay" This was, no doubt, too hasty
generalization; but it is the fact that to
persons who do not concern themselves
with the equine race, horses are very
much alike. A young gentleman of my
acquaintance, who used that animal
merely as the means of loconlotiou--
"the means and not the end"---was once
given "mount" by the friend with
whom he was staying to visit Reading
races. On coming away he had taken
the animal which was offered to hin: out
Of the crowded booth without investi-
CATION, and rode home on it. His host
met him at the lodge gate, aud with the
quick eye of proprietor perceived there
had been an exchange which might or
might not be robbery. Why, that's
not my horse, Ned" rs it not!' re-
piled the enthusiastic equestrian. at
looked extremely like him." know an
other case, where matters turned out
much worse. A good man of business,
but one who was a very careless rider,
Mr.. A. was wont to come TO town on
horseback every day, and put his horse
up at certain livery stable. Mr.. B.,
friend of his, used to do the like, and on
calling tor his nag one evening, had an
other brought ont TO him by the hostler.
That's not my horse" he said; 'that :
Mr.. AS horse" "rhen Mr. A. must
have taken your horse By mistake, sir. y
If so" said E., with gravity, she is a
dead man." And so, indeed, it turned
out. Poor A., riding home with loose
rein and careless seat, upon, as he
thought, his own quiet steed, was
thrown and killed upon the spot by 4
buck jumper. Frank Les!ies Monthly.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
TO PAINT A BUGGY,

The first thing to be done is to sand
paper all cracks, etc, out of the old
paint, then give coat OF the best paint
mixed with coach varnish, This is
sandpapered smooth as soon as it is dry
and hard, and second coat is given and
smoothed. A coat of varnish is given
and rubbed smooth with tlnely-sifted
pumice powder aud water, and second
coat is then given, to make good JOB a
third coat is frequently given, The best
coach varnish only is used, --Nc0 Tost
Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
What One Lightning Bolt Did.

In jackson County, this State, bolt
of lightning shivered a shade tree, up
rooted five currant bushes, melted thirty
eight rods of wire fence, smashed a
smoke-house, killed dog aud knocked
down two horses, ''all under the same
liberal management and in the same ring,
aud without extra cost to regular pat
rons. Detroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
Files STORY.

Nell WIS married this morning. She
told Jack all, and Jack gladly iorgave
her the temporary iufatuaton. She was
the prettiest of brides, and we had very
fine wedding, though l could not be
bridesmaid, because l, too, was married
this morning, and pinned the lace upon
my bosom with my diamond cross.-IHe
Le3Qer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05
pn. sASpEnsoN's Story.

Ellie sclt for me last week TO give me
the document quoted above, and ask nv
advice. Sheis SO tiny that ves amazed
at her pluck in merely racing sitter her
ce;isin ard Mr.. Trucnan aud ssyine
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05

4 GOOD deal OF excitement prevails in the
phosphate fields of Florida consequent upoo
the word received from Washington that all
phosphate lands will be claimsd as mineral
lands and that those who have taken home
stesds must give them up. A small army
has been in the field stalking o1t mineral
claims
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05

The Maine Savings Bank in Portland
has 1926 unknown depositors, of which
number twenty-six have not troubled
their deposits since 1859.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05

Belgium's Queen is great whip. She
can manage the most unruly horses, and
drive six in hand. She is also perhaps
the best equestrienne il all her kingdom.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-06-05

From the time of Louis MI to Louis XVII
was there a straw botto ned chair in France
that did not set more solidiy than the great
throne on which the French Kings regned9
Were | called TO sketch misery in its
worst form, l would not go up the dark alley
of the poor but up the highway over whicl
prancing Bucephali strike the SPARKS with
their hoofs and between the statuary and
parks of stalking deer. Wretchedness is
more bitter when swallowed from gemmsd
goblet than from earthern pitcher or pew
ter mug. IL there ara young people here
who are looking for this position and
that circumstance, thinking that worldly
success will bring peace OF the soul. let
them shatter the delusion. II is MOI what
we get, it is what We are. Daniel among
the lions is happier than Nebucnadnezzar
on his throne. And when life is closing,
brilliancy of worldly surroundings will be
no solace Death is blind, and SEES no diff
ference between the King and his clown,
between the Nazarine and the Atheniau,
between booklesS hut and national
library The frivolities of life cannot, with
their giddy laugh, ecaoing from heart to
heart, entirely drown the voice of tre-
mendous conscience wh;ca says: ~ am I'M
mortal TIE stars shall die, but | am immor
tall One wave of eternity shall drown time
in its depths. but l am immortal. The earth
shall have shroud OF fame aud the heavens
fee at the glance OF the Lord, but | am i'm,
mortal From all the heights AMI depths Of
my nature rings down, and rings up, ami
rings out the world immortal" good
conscience and assurances Of life eternal
through the Lord Jesus Christ are the only
securities
The souls happiness is too large craft to
sail up the stream of worldly pleasure. As
ship carpenters say, il draws too much water.
This earth is bubble, and it will burst.
This life is a vision, and it will soon pass
away. Timei It Is only ripple, aud it
breaketh against the throne OF Judgment
Our daysl They fly swifter than shuttle,
weaving for Is a robe OF triu np1 or a gar
ment OF sharhe. Begin your life with re-
hgion and for its greatest trial you will be
ready Every day will be a triumph, and
death will bs only Kings servant calling
you to royal banquet.
In olden tims the man wao was to receive
the honors Of knighthooi was required to
spend the previous night fully armed, and
with shield and lane, to walk u ani ioH1
The times., 1890-05-02
citv Finances.

The report of committee of the Common
Council on settlement with the City Treas
urer is published i'm this issue of THE TINES.
No tax payer can afford to overlook it. The
report is exhaustive and the various fiscal
transactions of the city presented in clear
and intelligent manner. One gratifying
feature is the careful summary of all the
water works transactions, showing the net
cost to date to he $685. 1862, Al; this sum, how
ever, includes SO, ,767,5S expended prior to
letting the contract. OwOsso has also paid
this year 81 900 of the bonds issued to aid
i'm the construction of the Il. A. A. IL n.
M. Ry. and So, 900 of the car shop bonds.
In all $4,000 of the railroad bonds have
been paid and the amount now outstanding
is $27, 900, beside S55, 900 water works bonds.
One item in the expenditures that should
he carefully noted by the present council Is
that of damages paid to Emma Furgeson,
on account of defective sidewalk. 1927,
will build good many cross-walks and
sidewalks.
Now that the city taxes are to be collected
during July, it ought not to he necessary to
borrow the large sums of money customary
in the past, thus saving the interest paid
heretofore. The council should adopt the
recommendations of the committee in refer
ence to frequent reports by our city officials.
We trust the present administration Will
will be able to make as successful showing
as their predecessors.
The times., 1890-05-02
zurh q. ohr,stiau noad.

At 4:30 D. m, ON Wednesday of this
week, after an illness extending over sever
al years, Hugh Grant Christian, brother of
Thomas o. and Daniel M. Christian, of this
city, sank peacefully into rest. He was
born in Chagrln Falls, Ohio, March IA,
1862. He graduated with honors from the
high school of his native town at the age of
seventeen. The following year he went to
Washington, where he was matriculated in
the government training school of the Sig
nal Service Bureau and six months later
went to New Orleans i'm that service.
Shortly afterward, IN the spring of 1881, he
was placed In charge of the station at Port
Eads, where his work was very acceptable
to the officials of that department of the
government service. This was at the ags
of nineteen years, an unusual honor. THE
post, however, while very important in the
signal service, is well known to be very
hazardous as regards health, the entire
ground being foot under water at very high
tide. Though at that time very Hercules
I'm stature and strenth, the malaria at length
made inroads OH Mr. Christians health, and
after short time in the marine hospital at
New Orleans, he was compelled to ask a
discharge from the service. After this he
went to New York City, where he found
lucrative employment. But the malaria had
sown the seeds of chronic rheumatism in his
system and in broken health he was COM
PEELED to return to Chagrin Falls. Here he
was stricken with paralysis. A year later
Mr.. Hugh came to OwossO and made this
city his home until his death. He was dearly
loved by the small circle of friends which
his broken health allowed him to form. He
had been an OmnlverOus reader, delighting
especially in the more esoteric works of Sci
ence and philosophy, in which he was
unusually well versed. The stroke of par
alysis threw shadow over the natural
alertness of his mind, and this, augmented
by second stroke year ago, which depriv-
ed him of speech, made communication
difficult. But in this solitude of mind into
which he was thrust, and i'm the blocking of
his plans, i'm which he was justly ambitious,
he dwelt uncOmplaining and cheerful. Ills
patience and sweetness of character will
abide as lessons to all who ever knew him.
He was tall and well knit i'm body and brain,
and death to one such is one of our strong,
inferential proofs of the necessity of immor-
tality. The deceased leaves father, two
brothers, Mr.. Il. o. and Mr.. ID. M. Chris
tian, a sister, Mrs. A. Nj. DOnsereauX, and
q half sister, Mrs. James Menderhall, of
California. The funeral will occur from the
home of Mrs. VIM. Howell, East Main ST.,
Rev. c. b. Spencer, assisted by Rev. Mr..
ShartS, officiating.