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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
His Voice His Fortune.

At recent 'high jinks" of the Ten
derloin club number of professionals
in the theatrical and musical line were
present and helped to enliven the occa-
sion by their songs, recitations and
funny stories.
Among these were comedian Ed
Stevens, of the Casino company, and
Sgnor Tagliapietra, of operate fame.
Mr. Stevens RECALLED the assemblage
with u series of amusing anecdotes, and
the signor in response to repeated calls,
sang ''The Palms and other musical
selections in his own inimitable style.
Among the guests was an elderly gen
tleman from Schoharie county, TINS
state. whose knowledge of the stage
and its representatives, however, is
somewhat limited. AT the conclusion
of the signors last song he turned to
his friend and innocently remarked:
THAT fellow there sings pretty well,
doesn't he? Why, l should think he
could make his living by singing songs.
That's what I'd do, at any rate, if had
his voice As for that other chap
there" he went on, referring to Mr..
Stevens, "he'd ought to study for the
stage. There's the making of a fine
comedian in him."
The countryman was very much dis
concerted at the laugh which followed
He was treasured, however, wher
Signor Tagliapietra came up to him
and said, II am indeed obliged, sir
that was the finest compliment / have
ever received in my life. New Yort
Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
THE LONDONDERRY SITTER, ~

time to inspect the books that come
into my household" If your children
were threatened with typhoid fever,
would you have time to 60 for the doc
tort Would you have time 10 watch
the progress of the diseasel Would you
have time for the funeralR In the pres
ence of my God l warn yon of the fact
that your children are threatened with
moral and spiritual typhoid, and that
usless the thing be stopped it will be to
them funeral of body, funeral of mind,
funeral of soul. Three funerals in one
day.
My word is TO this vast multitude OF
young people; Do not touch, do not
borrow, do not buy corrupt book or
corrupt picture A book will decide
a mans destiny for good or for evil.
The book you read yesterday may have
decided you for time and for eternity,
or it may DO a book that may come into
your possession tomorrow,
THE POWER OF A GOOD BOOK.
A good book-who can exaggerate
its powera Benjamin Franklin said
that his reading of Cotton Mather's
Essays to Do Good" in childhood
gave him holy aspirations for all the
rest of his life. George Law declared
that biography he read in childhood
gave him all his subsequent prosperi-
ties. A clergyman, many years ago,
passing to the far west, stopped at a
hotel. He saw woman copying some
thing from Doddridge's Rise and
Progress. 1t seemed that she had
borrowed the book, and there were
some things she wanted especially to
remember
The clergyman had in his sachel a
copy of Doddrige's Rise and Prog
ress," and so he made her present d
it. Thirty years passed on. The
clergyman came that way, and he asked
where the woman was whom he had
seen long ago. They said, ''She liv$
yonder in that beautiful house" IL
went there and said to her, "Do vol
remember mef' She said, mo, d.
not" He said, ''Do you remember ,
man gave you Doddridge's Rise ant
Progress thirty years agoW "Oh
yes; | remember. That book saved
my soul. loaned the book to all my
neighbors, and they read it and were
converted to God, and we had re
vival of religion that swept through tho
whole community. We built a churcl
and called pastor. You see tina
spire yonder, don't you9 That churcl
was built as the result of that book yot
gave me thirty years ago" Oh, thu
power of a good book. But, alas. TO
the influence of bad book.
John Angel James, than whom Eng
land never had holier minister, stood
in his pulpit at Birmingham and said
Twenty five years ago lad loaned t.
me an infamous book. He would loal
it only fifteen minutes and then | hat
to give it back; but that book ha
haunted me like a specter ever since
| have in agony of soul, on my knee
before God, prayed that he would oh
literate from my soul the memory of it
but shall carry the damage of it t
the day of my death" The assassin O
Sir William Russell declared that h
: got the inspiration for his crime h
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
Manners, Not Mannerism.

"Men's behavior" observes Bacon,
''should be, like their dress, not too
straight or point device, but free for
exercise or motion" There can be no
genial fellowship between affable,
courteous people and your stiff backed
Journalists; while the intercourse of the
latter with one another is necessarily
dull and dreary to the last degree.
They can no more enjoy society in
their strait jackets of cold reserve
than wretch in the stocks could en-
joy the hilarity of the crowd around
him. Whoever desires to make friends
should be cordial and conciliatory.
Nobody cares for automatic men and
women who seem to go by clock work,
and to want oiling at that. The error
of utter unreserve should be avoided
too. 1t is less repulsive than its oppo-
site, but it does infinitely more mischief.
A man had better seal up his thoughts
and feelings in his own breast than
sputter them forth, in season and out of
season, to everybody he meets Such
incontinency of speech is sure to make
the person guilty of it unpopular, and
to create general embarrassment and
alarm in the circle in which he moves.
New York Ledger.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
Australians Pastoral Areas.

Australia has in her vast pastoral
areas sources of wealth as great and
more permanent than those of her
mines. Already she has nearly 100,-
600, 900 of sheep, which in the mild
climate and under the sunny sky of the
country require no shelter throughout
the year and no food beyond what
they get on the open plains. 1t is true
that the sunny sky may change to a
sky of brass, and that drought is the
dread of the Australian shepherd, herds
man and farmer. Occasionally there
is succession of dry seasons and then
sheep have persisted by millions and
cattle by thousands on the more re-
mote stations.
To master recurring droughts is the
great problem of Australians inland
future. Here, as elsewhere, nature
challenges mans free advance and
places some special obstacle in his way
Australians are facing their task with
energy, confidence and with promise OF
much success. They have learned the
art of drawing wealth even from scrub
land, of which a single sheep requires
several acres for its support. Irriga
ton works on a large scale have been
begun in Victoria and south Australia.
Century.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
THURSDAY EVENING, MAR. 10. 1891.

end, Measure it-the height of it,
the depth of it, the length of it, the
breadth of ii, You cannot do ii, En-
anime the paper and estimate the proc
ross mgde from the tine of the impress
sions ON the clay, aad then ON to the
bark Of trees, and from the bark of
trees to papyrus, and from 2apyrus to
the hide of wild beasts, and from the
hide of wild beasts on down until the
miracles of our modern paper manu-.
factories, and then see the paper, white
and pure as an infants soul waiting for
Gods inscription,
A book Examine the type of it.
Examine the printing of it, and see the
progress from the time when Solons
laws were written on oak planks, and
Hesiod's poems were written on tables
of lead, and the Sinatic commands
were written on tables of stone, on
down to Hoes perfecting printing press.
A book 1t took all the universities
of the past, all the martyr fires, all the
civilizations, all the battles, all the vic
tories, all the defeats, all the glooms,
all the brightnesses, all the centuries to
make it possible.
a book 1t is the chorus of the ages;
it is the drawing room in which kings
and queens and orators and poets and
historians and philosophers come out to
greet you, If l worshiped anything on
earth | would worship that If
| burned incense to any Idol | would
build an altar to that. Thank God for
god books, healthful books, inspiring
looks Christian books, books of men,
looks of women, Book of God. 1t is
With these good books that we are to
1 overcome corrupt literature. Upon the
rogs swoop with these eagles. I'de-
pend much for the overthrow of in
! iquitous literature upon the mortality
of books. Even good books have a
hard struggle to live.
Polybius wrote forty books; only five
of them left. Thirty books of Tacitus
have perished Twenty books of Pliny
have persisted, Livy wrote one hun
dred and forty books; only thirty five
Of them remain. Hschylus wrote one
hundred dramas; only seven remain.
Nuripides wrote over hundred; only
nineteen remain. Varro wrote the biog-
rphies of over seven hundred great
spmans All that wealth of biography
lbs persisted. If good and valuable
1oks have such a struggle to live, what
ltIst be the fate of those that are dis
Used and corrupt and blasted at the
yry startl They will die as the frogs
llen the Lord turned back the plague.
he work of Characterization will go on
atil there will be nothing left but
gpd DOCKS, ana they Will take the SUI
pbmacy of the world. May you and
lie to see the illustrious day
pUNTERACT THE BAD WITH GOOD.
, against every bad pamphlet send
, god pamphlet; against every unclean
: piture send an innocent picture;
aainst every scurrilous song send a
Cristian song; against every bad book
sad good book and then it will be
ait was in ancient Toledo, where the
/, Tetum missals were kept by the saints
6 iusix churches, and the sacrilegious
, Rmans demanded that those missals
bldestroved and that ~" D.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

literature, in its championship for God
and the truth will bring down the evil
literature in its championship for the
devil I feel tingling to the tips of my
fingers and through all the nerves of
my body and all the depths of my soul
the certainty of our triumph. Cheer
up, oh men and women who are toihng
for the publication of society," Toll
with your faces in the sunlight. If
God be for us, who, who can be against
B?n
Lady Hester Stanhope was the daugh-
tr of the third Earl of Stanhope, and
aer her nearest friends had died she
Wnt to the far east, took possession of
aleserted convent, threw up fortresses
aid the mountains of Lebanon, opened
t. castle to the poor and the wretched
id the sick who would come in She
lhde her castle home for the unfortu-
nte. She was a devout Christian
pman. She was waiting for the com
ig of the Lord. She expected that the
brd would descend in person, and she
bought upon it until it was too much
pr her reason. In the magnificent
sables of her palace she had two horses
goomed and bridled and saddled and
dparisoned, and all ready for the day
| il which her Lord should descend, and
y on one of them and she on the other
4ould start for Jerusalem, the city OF
the Great King. 1t was a fanaticism
I'D a delllsion; but there was romance,
AMI there was splendor, and there was
thilling expectation in the dreaml
| Ill my friends, we need no earthly
pareys groomed and saddled and bri.
did and caparisoned for Our Lord
WIN he shall come. The horse is
reay in the equerry of heaven, and
! the imperial rider is ready to mount
''A.d | saw, and behold a white horse,
an0he that sat on Jim had a bow and
a cpwn was given unto him; and he
wen iorth conquering and to conquer,
And tn, armies which were in heaven
followed him ON Write horses, and or
his gestre and on his thigh were writ
ten kim of kings and Lord of lords
Hosemq of heaven, mount Caval
rymen Pf God, ride on! Charge
cha;ge! hntil they shall be hurled bach
on their haunches-th black horse o
famine, and the red horse of carnage
and the pale horse OF death. Jesu
foreIarl
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
A Gentle Hint.

Fred's mamma had trained him by
example and precept" to be courteous,
and he seldom forgot the lesson, even
under very trying circumstances.
One afternoon a maiden aunt, who
was something of a trial to Fred, came
to the house while his mamma was
away and insisted on his rehearsing all
the new verses and songs he had learned
at kindergarten since her last visit.
He went through his repertoire pa
tiently until he was quite tired, and
still his aunt demanded another and
another.
At last Fred said politely, but with
considerable firmness, ''I'll do just this
one more, Aunt Lucretia, and them
looking anxiously at the clock-"I am
afraid you'll have to go, if you don't
want to lose your rain"-Youth's
Companion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

lishments engaged in publishing cheap,
corrupt literature, From one publish
Ing house there went out twenty differ
ent styles OF corrupt books Although
over thirty tons of vile literature have
been destroyed by the Society for the
Suppression Of Vice, still there is
enough of it left in this country to
bring down upon us the thunderbolts
of an incensed God.
In the year 1868 the evil had become
so great in this country that the con-
gress of the United States passed q law
forbidding the transmission OF bad lit
erature through the United States
mails; but there were large loops in
that law through which criminals might
crawl out, and the law was dead fail
ure-that law of 1868. But in 1873 an
other law was passed by the congress
of the United States against the trans
mission of corrupt literature through
tbs mails IA grand law, potent law,
a Christian law-and under that law
multitudes of these scoundrels have
been arrested, their property confis-
Gated and they themselves thrown into
the penitentiaries, where they belonged,
HOW CAN IT BE FouGHT2
Now, my friends, how are we to wal
against this corrupt literature, and how
are the frogs Of this Egyptian plague tc
be slain9 First of all, by the prompt
and memorable execution of the law.
Let all good postmasters and United
States district attorneys and detectives
and reformers concert in their action tc
stop this plague When Sir Rowland
Hill spent his life in trying to secure
cheap postage, not only for England
but for all the world, and to open the
blessings of the postofiieo to all homes
business and to all messages of charity
and kindness and affection, for al
healthful Accommodation, he die
not mean to make vice easy or to fill
the mail bags of the United States witt
the scabs of such leprosy,
1t ought rot to be in the power o
every bad man who can raise a on,
cent stamp for circular, or a two cen
stamp for letter, to blast man o
destroy home. II D., postal service o
this country must be clean, and W,
must all understand that the swift ret
ributions of the United States govern
ment hover over every violation of tn
letter box.
There are thousands of men an,
women in this country, some for pei
sonal gain, some through innate de
pravity, some through spirit of re
venge, who wish to use this grea
avenue of convenience and intell
gence for purposes revengeful, sala
cious and diaboic. Wake up the law
Wake up all its penalties. Let ever
court room on this subject be a Sina
thundlrous and aflame. Let the cor
victed offenders be sent for the flu
term to Sing Sing or Harrisburg
| am not talking about what cannc
be done. | am talking now abou
what is being done. A great many c
the printing presses that gave then
selves entirely to the publication of vii
literature have been stopped or hav
\ gone into business less obnoxious
l What has thrown off, what has keI
Z of the rail trains of this country fc
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
BATTLING WITH sNoWBALLs.
Struggle Between the Girl Sophs and
Freshies of Smith College.

stfusSIe betWeen tne SOpns ana
Freshies of Smith College.
Smith college girls have just had a
novel experience. 1t was a SNOWFALL
battle between the ''sophs" and fresh
les" and the former won after spirited
fight, The sophs were led by Capt.
Wilcox and the freshies by Capt. Gain.
The young ladies were dressed in their
gym" suits, and were prepared for a
regular rough and tumble racket. The
signal for the commencement of hos
tilities was given by the gymnasium in
structor Miss Adams, and the fun be-
gan. Capt. Wilcox's shot hit daring
freshman in the front rank directly on
the right ear
A cheer went up from the fort, and
the old gold banner was waved aloft;
but one shot does not win battle. The
freshmen had marched upon the cam
pus with a determination to win the
fort, and the flag if they could in the
half hour allotted to the battle, The
most reckless sailed up to the very
walls. Here they met a perfect volley
of grapeshot, from which all but one
tall, handsome brunette flinched.
She threw three balls inside the fort
at three of the largest sophomores with
unerring aim. One hit set of daz-
zling white teeth, another would have
pierced the heart had it been bullet,
but before the third had taken effect
there was sophomore cheer A bold
sortie had been made, and sophomores
were mauling the daring besieger, but
for moment only. The freshmen
rushed back like drove of prairie
ponies wildly charging, Then began a
hand to hand encounter which mud
died the amateurs with kodaks awfully.
1t was muscle, and nothing else
''Why, those horrid things actually
threw me down n~a III | on me"
eutenants
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
tunbling
and one
~. There
)uld have
rvis field.
-apia re-

uI,uuo ,ls,lIIs uiaueu themselves by spe-
cial acts of bravery. Again and again
did the crimson freshmen enter the
fort, until it looked as though they
would rout the gold utterly, but the
plucky sophs succeeded in driving back
the invaders at every onslaught. When
the bugle blew at the end the sophie
mores held the fort, with their golden
banner still floating New York
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

A PaIs scientist has published the re-
suit OF fis researches on the subject of
talking fshes. He says that every fish
in some way or other talks to fish Of the
same kid. Herrings cry like men, roach
grunt lie pigs, and tench make a noise
like frogs. Conger eels bark and cod
6shliss Lobster and crayfish scream
wher they are boiled, and Paris soles
have \ wayo communicating the fact
of their stalehess to diners at restaurants.
London Tit-Rits.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
When Gold Looks Green.

Gof can be beaten out so thin that it
ALLOYS light to pass through it, in which
easel though it still appears brilliant yell
low by reflected light, it is green as
viewsi by transmission; that is, by the
lighthat passes through it. This curious
effec, can easily be observed by laying a
pieceof gold leaf upon a plate of glass
and lolding it between the eye and the
lightlwhen the gold will appear semi
tranparent and of peculiar leek green
coloi-Chambers' Journal
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

The Chinese have their tombs built
in the shape of the horseshoe, which
custom is very curious as it may be
fairly regarded as branch of super
stition long prevalent among ourselves.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

A eff acting electrical balance has re-
Gently peen invented. The object to be
weight is placed in the pan, which
closes The circuit, starts a motor, and
noves he weight out on the beam of
she balace. When the equipoise is es-
tablishe the circuit is broken.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

This
is fine
type
but like the SITTER
it "gits thar"
every time,
and
dollars to doughnuts
you'll
read it through,
and
only to learn that the SITTER Office
is
the
place
to get your Job Printing.
That's ALL
And
what's,
the use of
spinning out great long yarn about it3
Anything
from an
address card
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

We see SO many books we do not I'M
derstand what book is. Stand it on
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
An offer Remarkable for its

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pr" Twony-fve Complete Noveie any hnye select
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19

In the possession of these dealers in
bad literature were found nine hun
dred thousand names and postoffice
addresses, to whom it was thought it
might be profitable TO send these cor
rupt things. In the year 1873 there
were one hundred and sixty-five estab-
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-21

Bald heads, 1t appears, are becoming
more and moro common. In big cities
where pulses Of commerce and culture
beat with intense force, onc-half Of the
men at forty have heads as destitute Of
hirsutc ornament as billiard balls At
fifty, crania which make In summer
time excellent skating Kinks for blue
bottles, arc the heritage of every three
persons out of four whose lot has cast
them out Of country life AS for the
ladies', it is asserted that an even far
greater proportion of women at similar
ages have about us much Of what
Scripture calls their 'glory" upon the
attics of their persons rs the summit Of
the Bunker Hill monument
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-21
PHOTOGRAPHY IN coLoRa.
a Frenohmnn Sugscsts q Simple Process
The Latest Wonder.

a Frenohman SugScsts Simple Process
The Latest Wonder.
The fixing in the camera of the nat
ural colors of picture has always been
the philosophers stone of the photog-
rapher, and ever and anon the state
ment is given out that this much-de-
sired goal has been attained, to be
quickly followed by description which
goes to show how far from It's promise
the actual result of the supposed discov-
cry really is. NJ. Lippmann has, how
ever, now put before the French Acad-
cmy of Sciences plan which, If the
statements made concerning it are sub
stantintcd, will constitute a distinct
step toward the solution of the problem
of photographing objects in their nat
ural colors-
The suggested process is very simple,
aid involves the use of the ordinary re-
agents The sensitive film. during ex-
posture, Is floated on the surface of mer-
curry. Suppose, for instance, a ray of
blue light strikes the sensitive film, it
will pass through and, being reflected
from the surface of the mercury behind,
will pass out through the film ag,lin in
terfcring on its way with the incident
ray. When the two rays are in the
same phase their effects will be addi-
tive, and the sensitive matter in the
film will be strongly acted on AT
small distance farther on the two rays
will neutralize each other SO that the
film is there totally Enacted on. In this
way the thickness of the film is divided
up into layers, on which the light has
acted, half wavc-length apart and
hence when fixed and dried it may be
considered us consisting of number of
thin plates of half the wave-length Of
blue light in thickness, and will, there
fore, give rise to blue color when seen
by reflected light, just rs the thickness
of Is soap bubble gives rise to the coiors
seen in it,
Owing to the fact that the thickness
of an ordinary film is many times the
wavelength of ray of light the colors
obtained are said TO be remarkably bril-
liant. They are, moreover, perfectly
fixed, and the prints have been exposed
both to powerful electric arc light
and to bright daylight without any
signs of fading. 1t is also found that if
the prints are viewed by transmitted in
place of reflected light each color is rc-
placed by its complementary che,