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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
In the Streets Of Tripoli.

In the variegated crowd filling the
streets scores of types may be distin
guished: Arabs of the town, draped in
their blankets like Romans in their togas,
and, in fact, the ''jaram" is the direct
descendants of the toga and, judging from
its looks, seems to have retained all the
dirt of those intervening centuries; Others,
whose costume consists simply of flow
ing robe, generally white, or, of pre-.
else, which was once white, Sometimes
this robe is of silk of vivid hue, and the
effect of that gay note in bit OF street is
like poppy in a at-feld. Bedouins,
whose limbs, why and strongly muscled,
shine superb bronze color through
their scanty coverings, elbow Jews in
ridiculous costumes, half native and half
European. In a few moments one has
met with an infinite variety of negroes,
from the pure type almost without nose
and with enormous jawbones and huge
lips to those whose lineaments are abso-
lutely Caucasian. Porters, in simple
tunics corded about the waist, carry
heavy swinging bales on long poles rest
ing on their shoulders, cheering their
progress the while with an invocation to
Allah and his innnmerable prophets,
chanted by an old man and repeated by
the chorus; true song of savages burst
ing forth like a fanfare of trumpets.
Yelled women, voluminously wrapped,
pass by like ambling bundles of clothes.
Officers by scores, those of the new school
stiff but neat, trying to resemble their
German confreres, since the fashion il.
Turkish circles is to initiate the lions of
the day; the older officers kindly look
ing enough. but in what miserable cos
tumes Moorish dandies stroll! and pose
languidly about, seeming absorbed in pre-
serving their immaculate patent leather
slippers from any impairment fleck of
dirt. Crafty featured Greeks and Levan-
tines tread their insinuating way among
the motley groups. AT each step it is a
new tablcau, and the desire seizes you to
stop while the eyes follows a curious type,
and turning from it with regret you see
ten as interesting --,Scri6ner.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
EARN AND GARDEN MOVIES.

Quick fattening is the secret of making
good and tender and profitable beef
Keep the pigs growing, fat them early.
Smallpork brings higher prices than large
pork.
To feed apples to stock is as profitable
and much more satisfactory than to sell
them to be made into cider.
Those who fasten horses heads high
up for long time ought to be placed in
a BARRIERS chair for some hours with their
beads in a similar position. One lesson
would be enough.
Shrunken wheat, which is of small
value in making -four, is of relatively
high value as a stock food, because it
contains less starch, and is proportion
ateiy richer in nitrogen compounds.
The excuse for not draining wet farm
usually is that the owner has no time for
it; so it goes on, until some enterprising
farmer get possession, drains it, and
makes it one of the best farms in town.
Some one suggests that wild cherr,
trees along the roadsides can easily be
changed into useful plum trees by top
grating. He finds that all plums work
well on the wild cherry, which also takes
the peach and apricot buds.
There is no good excuse for raising
burdocks on the farm. Their presence is
a nuisance; their effect unending annoy
ance. They can be killed by cutting
when the burs are fully formed, even thu
roots succumbing to such treatment.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
A Detectives Detective.

In one of the well-known jewelry stores
on Broadway there is a most accomplished
floor walker, whose never failing urbanity
and courtesy have won him no end OF
friends among the patrons of the estab-
lishment BY no one, either in the store
or out of it, except his employer, is it
suspected that his occupation is other
than the one it seems. Yet the mans
profession is that of detective, and his
real services to the establishment are quite
apart from those OF an usher. The firm
also constantly employs dozen other de-
tectives, not one OF whom knows the real
calling of the man, and it is part OF his
duty TO exercise as close a scrutiny over
the detectives as they do over the Gus
toners of the store lie is the detectives
detective, in fact, though TO their credit
it is to be said, that he has never had a
case even of suspicion against one of
them
The jeweier does not depend wholly
upon his battalion of lIawkshaws to pro-
tect his property. For instance, take
the trays in which the rings are displayed.
Each tray is so constructed that a RUG
caanot be removed until a spring has
been pressed aud catch releases it.
The spring is at the end of the tray TO-
yard the clerk. aud it is part of his bust
ness to press it SO that the customer can
not see the action. The reason for this
! is obvious. Many customers like to LIT
the rings from the tray, and ii they
we're permitted to do it there would be 4
general displacement and many emhar
rassing situations might follow. The in
veption is as much 4 protection to th'
customer as it is to the clerks and th'
proprietor. York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
SEED FROM LARGE CROPS.

Whenever an extra large crop of good
quality has been grown it is worth while
to pay more than its market price for
seed from it for future sowing and plant
ing. The old rule, "Like produces like, T"
has not been abolished, and, other things
being equal, seed from a good crop is
likely to produce more and better than
seed from a poor one. We always select
the best ears from corn for planting.
With other grains it is not so easy on q
large scale to select individual plants in
a crop to furnish seed. 1t is done par
TALLY by choosing the largest, plumpest
grains and winnows out from the poorer
ones, but many of the heavy grains may
have been borne by weaker plants. On
field where the whole crop produces
heavily, the bulk of the seed is presuma-
bly, good; but it may for that reason re-
quire richer ground and more careful cul-
tivation to maintain its superiority. In
talking with farmer recently, he sug-
gested that the gradual falling-otf in pro-
duction of the bean crop was owing to
planting beans that were apparently all
tight, but which had been grown from
plants producing few pods and not many
beans in pod. He believed the pro-
Efficacy of the bean crop could be enor-
nously increased by breeding up, select
ing seed for series of years from plants
That produced most. The experiment is
well worth trying, but il must be remem-
bered that if this increased productive
ness is to be maintained, the plants hav-
ing this prolific habit must be duly fed
and cared or-4merican Culticator.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
The Problem of the Economics.

The Economic Society is one in which
the members banded together to make
money by being stingy. One rule was
that no man connected with the society
should marry. The settlement is in Ohio.
The farms and buildings of the clan are
the best in the State. The crops are
always large. The wealth of the Econo-
mites is enormous. Years have become
mere figures on torn up calendar since
the society was formed and the leader is
now white haired patriarchal man over
eighty years old. Seed time and harvest
have come and gone. The reapers have
whetted their scythes, oxen and mich
cows have lowed in the broad meadow
lands, orchards have blossomed and borne
fruit, and the thousand and one charm
ing details of rural life have TRANSFERRED
for the Economics or for other men, but
the Economics are not happy. Every
thing is theirs but love and the prattle of
children. Their neighbors respec. them
but do not follow their example. 1t is
better, they say, to be poor and happy
than rich and childless and unhappy.
The grave stares the Economics in the
face. The last parcel of soil they can
hold title to measures but small frac-
ton of an acre. Who will get their
richesl Their resolution is shaken.
Marry they will. Children and heirs may
come to them. They have lived in error.
They will die in matrimony.- Chicago
Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
Worth More After it Was Broken.

'sThc mending of china in this city is
increasing in proportion to the amount of
fine china being introduced into the
houses of the wealthy" said Harry For
roster, to reporter for the Washington
Past SIN Europe the art Of mending
china is one that occupies great many
people and that calls forth the greatest
degree of skill. This is so from the fact
that heirooms in family cannot be re-
placed, and every effort is made to pre-
serve them after being broken when they
are in the form of china. You would
think that the breaking of bowl would
reduce its value great deal, but there
are pieces of such china in Europe that
have been broken into a dozen pieces,
put together again and are then worth
more than before the calamity.
"Of course such cases have arisen only
when the breaking was connected with
some historic event that created relic
Of the broken piece. There was punch
bowl, remember, for sale in a china
store of Berlin some years ago. The
present Emperor, then a Prince, visited
the store and in locking over the goods
accidently broke one OF the handsomest
pieces OF chinaware there. He at once
offered to pay for it at any price the
dealer should name, but the latter being
equal to the occasion insisted that he
could not take money for it, but said
that if the Prince would but write line
saying that he had accidently broken the
bowl it would cause no loss. The note
was written and without the Princes
knowledge was attached Oh the mended
china. The price that had formerly been
on it was increased four-fold, the bowl
was sold, and after the Prince became
Emperor it was worth many times what
it had brought at the last sale"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
WISE WORDS.

No indulgence of passion destroys the
spiritual nature so much as respectable
selfshness.
There cannot live a more unhappy
creature than an ill-natured old man, who
is neither capable of receiving pleasures,
nor sensible OF doing them to others.
Every man deems that he has precisely
tine temptations and trials which are the
hardest of all for him to bear, but they
are so because they are the very ones he
needs.
Where necessity ends, desire and Curl
osity begin; and no sooner are we sup
piled with everything nature can demand,
that we sit down to contrivc artificial
appetites.
My first word to all men and boys who
care to hear me is, don't get into debt.
Starve and go to heaven, but don't bor-
row. Try first begging. But don't buy
things you can't pay for.
All trust is dangerous, if it is not entire;
we ought on most occasions to speak all,
or conceal ALL We have already too
much disclosed our secrets to man,
from whom we think any one single cir
cumstance is to be concealed.
When great truth really fills the
mind it naturally seeks to find express
sion in speech. 1t is then more difficult
to restrain ones self from speaking than to
speak. GAN repression is grievous when
man is full of some truth"
Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy,
recollection is its golden tinge; but the
latter is wont to sink amid the dews
and dusky shades of twilight; and the
bright blue days which the former
promises, break indeed, but in another
world, and with another sun.
If you do not rise early you can never
make progress in anything. If you do
not set apart your hours of reading, if
you suffer yourself or any one else to
break in upon you, your days will slip
through your hands Improbable and
frivolous, and really unenjoyed by your.
! self.
Thou mayst be sure that he that will
in private tell thee of thy faults is thy
friend, for he adventures thy dislike,
and doth hazard thy hatred; for there
arc few men that can endure it, every
man for the most part delighting in self
praise, which is one of the most universal
follics that bewitcheth mankind.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
pox,r GO DOWN THAT STREET.

was visiting at good minister's house
a few days ago, and made friends WITH his
bright little daughter, only six years old,
who taught Inc lesson. ] invited her to
take a walk with me, and we proceeded
down the street, her hand in mine, chatting
in a very friendly way. As we came TO a
crossing, she said: Don't 60 down that
street,
''Why notF' l asked in surprise.
because ! am always tempted when | go
down there
what is it that tempts you:'
1.-The candy store. l always wants to go
go in and buy some candy"
Now here Is lesson for children of larger
growth. What should you do when YOU are
tempteis Run away, or rather don't so in
the way of temptation. Is it the saloon that
tempts YOU TO enter? Keep away. What
ever it IS that makes You spend your money
needlessly, keep away. Keep ON the safe
side. We give you the advice in the words
of the Bible: Avoid it. pass not by it, turn
from it and pass away Youths Temper
ancs Banner
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
SUCCESS.

As we gaze up life's slope, as we gaze
hthe morn, ere the dewdrops are dry,
What splendor hangs over those ways,
What glory CLEANS there in the sky;
What pleasures seem waiting nshigh
On the peak OF that beauteous slope
What rainbow-hued colors of hope,
AS we gaze!
As we climb up the hill as we climb,
Our hearts, our illusions, are rent;
For Fate, who is spouse of old Time,
Is jealous of youth and content,
With brows that are brooding and bent
She shadows our sunlight of gold,
And the way grows lonely and cole
As weelimb.
AS we toll on through trouble and pain,
There are hands that will shelter and feed
But once let us dare TO attain,
They will bruise our bare hearts till we
bleed,
IT'S the worst of all crimes to succeed
Know this as ye feast on Il crust
Know this, in the darkness and dust
0e WHO cliilib,
AS we stand ON the heights of success,
10! success seems as hard as defeat.
Through the lives we may succor and bless
Alone may its bitter turn sweet;
And the world, lying there at our feet
Withits caviling praise and its sneer,
We must pity, condone and not hear.
Where we stand,
As we live on those heights, We must 1.-Two
With the courage and pride of god;
For the world, it has nothing to give
But the scourge of the lash and the rod.
Our thoughts must be noble and broad,
Our purpose must challenge mems gaze,
While we seek not their blame nor their
praise
AS We live
Ella Wheeler Witco1.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
FnnpINe Fowls IN wNrER.


Most fowls that have free range in sum
mer will then of their own accord take
exercise enough in getting their food,
But in winter ii is different. What they
get must be fed them, and 1t is usually
in such concentrated form that they can
fill their crops in few minutes, Then
they stand moping in the cold or return
to their perch for greater warmth, If
fattening be the object this is well enough
but it gives small chance for the health
sul thrift necessary for egg production,
The feeder who always makes his hens
scratch for their living gets the most
eggs. Feed small grains, oats or wheat,
and throw this among so much finely cut
straw that they will pick but one grain
at time. The health and prolifcacy OF
barnyard fowls that depend on the manure
heap for their living is due to the fact
that they have to earn what they eat be-
fore they get it.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
which food is supplied 10 them, will IN.

which food is supplied to them, will In
evitably detraot many cents per pound
from the merohantable value of the fleece.
A farmer who can show to buyer after
shearing heeces free from burrs and the
dust and dirt of the winter feeding will
be more than compensated for the trouble
and expense it may have cost him,
The sheep is furnished by nature with
a warm covering, which is ample protec.
ton against dry cold, so that, except in
the case of young lambs, the single ele-
ment of cold will be neither uncomforta-
Bile nor damaging The housing of the
flock, therefore, need not be constructed
with especial reference to warmth, but
ample shelter from rains aud sleet should
be afforded, When sheep are allowed to
remain exposed to storms until the fleece
has become saturated with rain, it is at
once changed from protection against
cold into an uncomfortable wet blanket
that is not soon easily dried, and be-
comes source Of disease.
To keep a flock healthy, the sheep
must have dry feet, Where pigs would
fatten in muddy Enclosures sheep would
contract diseases and die. Their out
door winter quarters should therefore be
on ground naturally dry, or made so ar
officially, and from which the water fall
ing on it will quickly drain OIL. Not
only should their winter quarters be on
dry ground, but they will always be
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
A SleenY Senate.

"The Senate of the United States pre-
sents remarkable contrast with that of
Brazil" said an attachee of South
American legation to a Post reporter as
he eyed critically the various Senators
from the gallery recently. Sin Brazil
senators hold office for life, and take a
so-called active part in the legislation of
the country so long as they can be carried
to the senate chamber and set up. A
view of the Brazilian senate reminds one
of a hospital for the inirm and aged,
with here aud there man of some bodily
vigor thrown in. As rule at least a
third of the senators are so old that they
fall asleep after sitting in the senate
chamber for half an hour, and even on
important occasions of debates it is i'm
possible to keep them awake long enough
to hear the argument of the younger men,
they never attempting anything like an
address themselves. | remember on one
occasion counting thirteen of these aged
legislators sitting in their chairs asleep
while one of the ablest debaters was adj
dressing the body. - Washington Post.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
Fashions In Dos.

'''rhe fashion in dogs has changed
very much during the past few years, !"
said canine fancicr recently. Form
crly the rage among the people was for
:hc black tan, an'i they often
brought enormous prices. Dogs Of that
saccics that would then bring $50 would
nat now bring one-tcnth that sum. In
fact, the blacs,-and.tans are drug On
The canine market. The larger terriers
have succeeded thcp as general favor.
ties. -Iehrcr Tia9ss.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
v1oLErs AND pANs1Es IN wINrER.


To grow violets or pansies outside of
greenhouse is considered by practical
gardeners one of the easiest things to per-
form. Many florists keep them in cold
frames exclusively, for, as rule, they
have not room for them in the green
houses, unless house is built onpurpose
for them. They may be grown in pots,
as window plants, provided plenty of air
can be given on sunny days and steady
temperature, between thirty five and fifty
five degrees, can be kept up. If kept in
too high an artificial temperature they
will not flower much, but will make UP
IN rcd spider what they lack in blossom.
A geranium, carnation and monthly
rose may be wintered and Powered at a
low temperature if plenty of sunlight
prevails.
The violet wants to be kept cool at all
times if it is expected that it will fulfil
its mission. All this docs not imply that
the temperature of a violet house or
frame should never be allowed to run up
to sixty degrees, because sometimes the
heat in the daytime is not always under
control. The sun may sometimes make
the atmosphere under glass warmer than
ihe gardener would like TO have it, but
to raise the sash only one inch would LEI
the frost in and do more damage than
the heat. In such case little too high
temperature is the lesser evil.
A good place to grow violets or
pansies may be constructed at the south
side of dwelling. Dig pit two feet
deep along the house. Into this put a
stout frame to receive common hot bed
sash, the sash to lean against the
building. Tear down the wall that
separates the frame from the cellar under
the house and put row of windows in
its place. The idea of that is that tho
natural heat in the cellar shall keep your
frame at steady temperature. AT the
same time you may work over your
flowers, no matter what the outside
weather may be, and when no air can be
Given from the outside it may be done
indirectly inside. When the outside
sash is open the inside may be shut.
Thus the sun will warm up the cellar,
and perhaps store up a little heat for the
night.-Philadelphia Record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09

A Lancaster PENN woman has per-
formed the feat of smoking two domestic
cigars in seven and half minutes.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09

The shipments .: petroleum from
Philadelphia for 1859 shcw small gain
oyer the year 1883.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09

TIE American B..nl, Note Company
prints 10000, 900, 600 postage stamps peS
y ar.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-05

FOR RENT, fFS7s& Pleasant rooms, with partial board if de- W;;sl sired, at 1855 BRADLEY STREET
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-05
| NEWS BY TELEGRAPH From All Quarters. THE GAVEL LAID ASIDE. Reed of Maine Among His
 Constituents. \ WAR OF WORDS IN THE HOUSE. Fears of an Appalling Rail-
 road Disaster. EMPLOYING PRINTERS IN SESSION. A Fast Mile by Dallas at
 Springfield.
EMPLOYING PRINTERS IN SESSION.
SPEAKER REED AT HOME.

SPEAKER REED AT HOME.
 Thousands of His Tovnspeople and
 Responds With a Great Speech on
 Congressional Matters in General
 and House Filfbustering in Par
 ticular.
 PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. 4.-Speaker Reed was welcomed home this evening by a crowd of three thousand people, who packed the city hall half an hour before the time he was advertised to speak, Chandler's band furnished music on the street and in the hall till 8 o'clock, when prominent citizens, including members of the Young Mems Republican club, the Portland club and the Metropolitan club, took their places on the platform They were followed by MT. Reed, who entered on the arm of Mayor Melcher, and was greeted with storm of cheers and the waving of hats. He rose and bowed his acknowledgements, and then Wilbur F. Lunt, chairman of the Republican City committee, introduced State Representa- tive John H. Fogg of this city as presiding officer of the meeting. In few words
 HOSS pteeoncoo OPeaker Need, WnO advanced to the front of the platform and was received with prolonged burst of the audience rising in a body to welcome the distinguished speaker.
 MT. Reed spoke long and earnestly of hls work in the house and of the many oredltable measures evolved by the pres ent congress. He said that the laws treated by that body would be an honor to he country and glory to their origina- 'ors. He eulogized the famous members who have died within the year and spoke eelingly of Hon. Samuel J. Randall as of a heart of oak and will of iron, the trongest force in half a century," His beech was received with unbounded en- husiasm and at the end he was given a monster ovation.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-05
The old Colony Di.a.ter.

QUINCY, Mass. Sept. fudge Humphrey made his return this afternoon on the in quest held upon the recent Old Colony dis aster at Quincy. He finds that the track jack was the cause and that Joseph F. Welch, the section master, was guilty of criminal negligence in allowing the jack to be placed on the track at that time and under the existing circumstances, and guilty of gross negligence for not ordering it's removal before the time on which the the train was due at that point; that the train was three minutes late at Brockton the jack was on the track at the time on
 which the train was due at the latter place. He finds that Michael Hartly placed | the jack on the track by Welch's direction | and under his personal supervision.