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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
Boy Criminals.

A French writer on sociological topics
desperate criminals are now boys and
young fellows under twenty-five. Up
to fifteen years ago the assassin was
usually man full grown; in many cases
he was almost middle aged. Now the
toughs, the gangs, the human wild
beasts that terrorize neighborhoods and
certain districts in cities are from four
teen years old up to Twenty-Five The
boy criminals committed for bold thefts
and bloody deeds are notable in prisons
and reformatories. They seem born
murderers and monsters. In the words
of youth of seventeen, who tried to
kill his benefactress in France: Il would
kill, steal, murder and do all the harm
can. have always had desire to kill
some one, and it would be a delight to
me to cut off peoples heads"
The French writer attributes this
youthful outbreak of crime to inherited
tendencies derived from parents ad-
dicted to drunkenness. The actual state
in which the lower classes of Paris live
in respect to alcoholism is depicted well
enough in Zola's powerful but unpleas-
ant novels Alcoholism develops the
fercer passions and appetites in men.
Confirmed inebriates transmit their in
famed tempers and evil passions to
their children, hence the latter are born
thieves and murderers. The temporary
insanity of drunkenness is transmitted
and made permanent in the same way,
according to the French writer. There
is now twice as much alcoholic insanity
as there was fifteen years ago. This is
true of France 1t is to be hoped it is
not quite so bad in the United States,
although we have no statistics to show
the actual facts.
This much, however, is as true for the
United States as for France. The most
desperate criminals, apparently born so,
are now boys and young men.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25

The following query was asked and
answered in The American Beekeepers'
Journal: (Which is the more desirable
for hives-a fiat cover or gable roof
There were eighteen replies to this query.
Fifteen of these answered "a fiat cover u
The editor was included among the ad-
vocates of fiat cover, and said that
'if the hive slopes little to the front
all the advantages of the gable roof are
obtained, without any of its disadvan-
tages." J. P. H. Brown replied, Flat,
if to be covered with tin, but if no metal
covering prefer a gable" NJ Mapin
expressed a preference for gable roof
&. NJ Doolittle wrote that he used a flat
cover overlaid with tin, which is painted
white
Always have little portico to the bee
hives with roof extending over, and an
inch or two beyond it, advises the Phila-
delphia Farm Journal. The bees do not
want to stay indoors during all the rainy
weather any more than You do. They
may rush to the hive to escape shower,
but if they have veranda they do not
need to all crowd in the hive, but lounge
outside, stretching their legs, combing
their wings, perhaps close some of their
many eyes in doze. In fair weather
the young bees like to play on it as much
as you do on a broad porch, while those
who come home from Il long flight laden
with honey like to alight and rest on it a
moment before crawling into the hive
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
The LONDONDERRY SITTER.
The british Coal Strike,

The most orderly strike ON record was
that of the coal miners of Great Britain,
1t was strike that helped the coal
dealers OF the United Kingdom i'm.
mensely, Immediately the miners
stopped work the dealers put up the
price of coal, and up and up it went till
it touched the point where fuel began to
be brought from Belgium, There it had
TO stop,
The strike was remarkable in char
Ecter. In America and elsewhere, when
the price of coal goes down to con-
sumers so that operators find it no long
er profitable to ship it from the mines,
the first resort and the easiest is to cut
down the wages of miners and thus les
sen the cost of production. The miners
Of Great Britain thought they saw i'm
pending over them this very reduction
because of a glut in the supply market
The Miners federation, which has O
membership of 100000, quietly decided
u
week or longer, till coal should become
scarce and the price in consequence rise.
So the men stopped work. There are
some eleven mining districts in England,
Wales and Scotland. Flintshire in
Wales was the only place where the
order to stop work was not obeyed.
Miners went visiting their friends and
many of them went hunting What
this meant will be clear when we stop
to think moment, Nearly every kind
Of manufacturing known to man de-
ponds on steam to run its machinery,
and steam depends ON coal Railway
companies were obliged to take off some
of their trains, water works managers
at Durham cut off the supply of water
during part of the day and the Cheshire
salt works shut down. There was not
coal in the kingdom enough to keep all
the manufacturing industries running
for one week, and toward the close of
the week at least 100000 men employed
lin them We're idle, making the whole
number out of work by the strike over
half a million.
This new example set by organized
labor will probably be followed in other
parts of the world, Labor takes the bit
in its teeth and does exactly what mine
operators and manufacturers have been
blamed for doing for half a century
stopping the supply to keep up prices.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
Heroes.

When Fred Hamilton, reporter of
the New York Advertiser, was attacked
with typhus as result of investigating
in person the tenement houses where the
fever appeared, his fellow reporters
thought it was rather joke. They said
that no more than 8 per cent. of those
attacked with the scourge died, and
there was no prospect at all that their
comrade would immortalize himself by
dying in the discharge of his duty. At
any rate, it was no more than any other
fellow would have done, they said But
when the word came that Hamilton had
died new face was put on things, and
even the newspaper boys stopped their
chatting and looked grave. He died be-
cause of his desire to put his paper first
among those giving reliable and read
able news of the plague, and it was as
much loyalty to the editor in chief,
Colonel John A. Cockerill, as anything
else that led him to take the risk.
| But it was true, what the reporters
said. ANY other fellow would have
done it"-any other reporter, that is.
In their enthusiasm for their papers
they take their lives in their hands in
many parts of this Union daily. And
they lose their lives. In fire, in ice, in
tempest, in railroad wreck, in battle and
pestilence the soul of many and many a
newspaper reporter has gone out upon
the unknown. No Drawer men ever lived
than they.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25

An astrological prophecy in Al De-
baran's Arabic Triangle, for the month
of March, says, AN affecting social
scandal in exalted circles produces a
most painful impression in the United
States of America" Perhaps if the
prophet had said an Aston illogical pre-
diction it would have hit exactly, seeing
that Mrs. j. Coleman Drayton, whose
name Mr.. j. Coleman Drayton has sue
ceeded in getting into all the newspa-
pers, is daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Aston. This is the second atrocious
scandal in the very cream of the Four
Hundred within month. How glad
the rest of the world ought to be that it
is not classed with the Four Hundred.
Few respectable people could afford to
have their names mixed up with a
crowd where there are such goings on
as are chronicled among Mr.. Ward Nc
Allister's Four Hundred.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
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FlELp,sNp GRRpEN
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CORN CULTURE,
Sweet Corn as Farm Garden Crop.
How to Grow 1t,

Sweet Corn as Farm Garden Crop.
How to Grow 1t,
Sweet corn for market is emphatically
a farm garden oropbut too rarely grown
in the market garden, T, Greiner, in
his book, "How to Make the Garden
Pay" places sweet corn as a farm crop
far ahead of common field corn or pota-
toes for profit. There are few locali-
ties in which reasonable quantity of
good boiling ears could not find ready
sale at seventy-tive ceets or ono dollar
per hundred. Where grown for can
ming or evaporating of course the ruling
price has to be accepted, Greiner says
81 find that can plant sweet corn closer
and grow at least one-half AS many
more ears to the acre than | can Of field
corn, and this even with less labor and
risk and with no greater amount of ma
nure. Consequently the grower easily
realizes two or three times the profits on
sweet corn that he would on the other"
Corn delights in warm, well drained
soil, and none is better for it than rich
clover sod. The plant is a quick grower
and powerful eater and not in the
least particular as to the kind of food.
Anything in the shape of plant food
comes acceptable. even fresh, coarse
stable manure. Good crops can be
grown in thin soils if dressed broadcast
with from 400 to 800 pounds of some
high grade complete fertilizer per acre,
narrowed or plowed in. Sometimes we
may plant corn on unmanured land in
the supposition that it is rich enough for
the crop only to find out our mistake
afterward by seeing the plants at al
most complete standstill, Even at
this late period the matter can be easily
remedied in most cases and fair crop
obtained by applying few hundred
pounds of the fertilizer per acre as top
dressing between the rows.
Planting in hills for the purpose of
cultivating both ways may be admissible
! on rough, stony or gravelly farm land
and for farm crops, but we want none of
it in the garden, provided it is such as it
should belong and narrow in shape,
and of clean, well titled soil The drill
method with corn and most other crops
gives us an increased yield at no increase
of labor, for with skillful management
of the narrow toothed cultivator or
wheel hoe, going twice (back and FORTH
between each two rows, each time close
to the one at the right, the entire surface
of a reasonably level and smooth piece
of land can be SO thoroughly and effect
lively stirred that the field will appear as
if it had been narrowed all over. Willie
the plants are yet young, in good mel
low soil, there will be nothing left to be
done with the hand hoe, or at least very
little later on if skillful cultivator work
is persistently and timely done.
The early dwarf sorts may be planted
in drills two and half or three feet
apart, one stalk every six or eight inches,
1 or two or three plants every twelve to
eighteen inches. The intermediate va
| rieties need little more space, and the
late tall sorts should have the rows three
4 and half or four feet apart, one stalk
every eight or ten inches, or two to three
| stalks every eighteen inches.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25

We shall not mention where the place
is, but merely remark that it ought to
be ashamed to lift up its head among
respectable cities from this on. A debt
of over $1,000, with interest, hung over
this town. The creditor was a man who
had bought in good faith the bonds of
this place when it was small town.
The town went back on its bonds. The
man who had bought them sued in the
courts and got judgment twenty years
ago. On one pretext and another the
high principled city rulers put off levy
ing the tax necessary to pay the debt
1t has Just now run out under the stat
ute of limitations. We are told that the
taxpayers are "jubilant" that this is the
case, for now they will never have to
pay the money at all. This new and
unique way of paying debts is to be COM
mendedSto cities that do not care what
anybody thinks of them, and private in
dividuals who do not care whether they
ever go to heaven or not But it may
possibly become difficult for cities to OBJ
tain money on their bonds hereafter
Likewise the business honor of a tax
payer who can be "jubilant" over his
towns disgrace must be curious speci-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
FRIDAY MORNING, MAR. as, 1892.
The Training of Rows.

The great want today is not more
opportunities, but the power to Crap
Pile with hindrances to obtain the de-
sired objects. The men who are fill,
ing leading places in the various call
ings and pursuits Of life are usually
those who in their youth had to bat
tie with adversely and meager oppor-
tunities, and who, by the force thus
developed, have risen to their present
high stations.
1t is interesting to note that ON
this principle the sons of the royal
family of Germany are required to
learn trade, some manual industry,
that they may learn self mastery and
be able to endure hardship. A self
INDUCED, easy going boy, who never
knew one act of self denial, promises
little in the years of mature man
hood. The boy is father to the man
in that sense. Presbyterian.
Blaine believes and hopes that his
chief claim to recognition as a states
man will rest on his reciprocity scheme.
He thought it out when he was secre-
tary of state under Garfield, and he has
held fast to it ever since.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25

Should we wash the mud off horses
legs or let it dry on and then brush it
Off" Good horsemen differ on this
point. This is the answer given in
Rural New Yorker IF the mud could
be quickly dried off, the best way would
be to let it dry and then brush it clearly
off. But if that is not possible, it is evil
dent that, so long as it remains there
undried, it keeps the skin of the hooks
wet-the very thing to be avoided.
Hence apparently the best thing to do is
to get rid of it in the quickest possible
manner. This is attained by washing
and sponging. But if this is done it
must be followed up by thorough dry
ing If this is not done the second state
will be worse than the first. To avoid
grease, have dry hooks in the stable, free
from the Judgment of dirt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
ODDS AND ENDS.
Beware of a fawning exterior.

Beware of a fawning exterior
Citric acid will remove ink stains.
Australia had 233 free libraries in
1858.
He who would exert influence must
exercise Judgment,
Chicago has become the third man
ufacturing city in the country,
Retrospect brightens existence only
as it is replete with pleasant memo
ries.
Alarge party will soon leave Wash
ington state to explore the Yukon
river.
Some never umcork the walls of
their wrath except to pour forth II
torrent of abuse,
Talking business in the fur trade
has always been called talking mus
quash" musk rat,
In France the custom of shaving;
came in with Louis XIII, who was
young and beardless.
A swimming bath for race horses
has recently been introduced ON a
stock farm in California.
If you double at every failure, Sue
cess is certain in the end, by all the
laws of poker and ethics.
To preserve mucilage of either
gum arabic or tragacanth, add few
drops of oil of cloves or alcohol.
A young high school student has
made the discovery that, THE spinal
cord serves as support to the back. !"
A good cement is melted alum, but
it must never be used when water
ard heat are to come in contact
with it.
Cats die at an elevation of 10, 900
feet, even though they are reputed
to have mine lives" when on a level
with the ocean.
Steel wagon wheels with hollow
felloes and spokes are coming to the
front. Detroit is manufacturing
them to large extent.
The curious information is given
that the crown of England, which is
valued at $500, 900, has been in pawn
four times, once for $1,000
For the falling hair make simple
rosemary tea and sponge the head
with it. Have the ends of the hail:
cut or tipped by hairdresser.
The Prince of Wales, if annoyed
or nervous, winls his left eye rapid
ly. His son, Prince Edward, holds
his chin between the thumb and first
finUnr
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25

moro, chaplain of the French army in
Algiers and teacher of mental philoso-
ply in the Stonyhurst Jesuit college.
In 1869 he was sent to California. There
he had charge of st. Ignatius college,
whence be was transferred in 1880 to
Santa Clara college. There he remained
until he breathed his last.
Father Bayma was a tall, handsome
and particularly gentle man. He was a
great philosopher, but his speciality, and
the study to which he devoted his life,
was mathematics. Several of his works,
the master minds among the mathema-
ticians say, will live forever One of
his books was entitled, The Curves AS
sumed and Described by Falling Drop
of Water" Another which the Smith
sonian institution has now in press,
''Cycloidal Functions" has the loga-
rithms calculated to eight places He as
sailed the theories of Tyndall, Newton
and others. His books are used in many
colleges. He was born in Italy. but
spoke several languages fiuently.
The best faith cure in the world il
try cure" says writer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25

Those who sometimes forget just how
long it takes a steamer to reach San
Francisco from China and Japan may
be interested to know that the ship
Oceanic has lately broken the record on
this route. She sailed from Japan by
way of Honolulu. From Yokohama she
steamed to Honolulu. making that part
of the journey in eleven days. AT Homo
lulu the Oceanic was quarantined nine
teen hours, after which she started for
San Francisco, making this distance in
six days. The whole trip from Yoko-
hama to San Francisco by the route
named required eighteen days. The dis
lance has never before been covered In
so short time.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
Black and white Breeds of Poultry.


A correspondent of the New York
World, who has fancy for black and
white fowls, writes as follows: Il would
like to say a few words about them, mem
tioning first of all the Polish varieties.
Any one who wants to raise fowls for
their good looks and eggs should try the
Polish. They are not much in way of
poultry for table and market, because
their plumage is very heavy compared to
the weight of flesh, but find them splen-
did layers. The chicks feather out very
rapidly, and they are not so hardy as
many other breeds. Wet weather and
dampness are especially hard upon them
and often cause roup. But any person
who takes pride in keeping handsome
fowls will be pleased with them, and
where the object is to obtain eggs do not
know of better breed. The white crest
ed black Polish are very striking and ele-
CANT birds. Besides these are the gold
and silver spangled or laced Polish.
another good black and white fowl is
the Wyandotte Wyandottes begin to
lay much earlier than Plymouth Rocks,
and their eggs are larger and deeper col
ored. find that they lay about as many
| as the latter breed, though some Of my
poultry growing friends claim that theirs
do not and that the birds are lighter
! weight, and therefore not so desirable
for the table. But they are pretty close
4 feathered and fine boned with flesh fine
grained, tender and juicy. Their bright
yellow legs, free from feathers, and their
yellow skin and plump breast make them
1 attractive in market. Their hardness as
chicks and the consequent ease i'll raising
| them is decided recommendation. For
all practical purposes call them excel
| lent fowls The Wyandottes are white,
heavily laced with black. especially on
the breast, the tRil solid black, the face
l and ear lobes red and they present a
very handsome appearance.
4 The Houdans .are black and white
4 breed of decided merit. In France they
. are perhaps the leading fowl. They are
excellent table fowls for summer and
l fall and good average layers. 1t has
been said that they incline to roup, but
have not found it so. This may be be-
| cause for year or two past have had
! exceptionally good quarters for my
fowls, the poultry houses being warm
and the soil naturally well drained and
dry. This last. by the way, is point too
many people overlook. do not believe
4 any breed of chickens can be made to pay
on low, damp ground. There will be too
! much loss from disease, especially roup.
! A farmer writing to the Philadelphia
! Farm Journal says: My farm wagon
[ needed new rims on the wheels and
] now while the sled is in use am having
/ the wheels cut down to thirty inches,
and the new rims shall be four inches
; wide. | believe shall save man power,
horse power and road destruction.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25

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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
ELIXIR VITA
Peruvian Nerve Compound.

In offering this Great Nerve Remedy to the
that it is nuta Qrlck Medicine in any sense
Of ne word, but prescription or formula used
by one Of he most celebrated Nerve Special
s., in he wor 4, and il is now offered to The
people of ibis royuy lor The first time, 1t is
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duc'ion prepared by one OF the largest Man
uHciwng Chemists in The United States. II
contains the most carefully selected nerines
known 10 Medical Scicuye al The present day.
This tompound aels principally through the
nervous system and digestive organs, and
thereby restores the weak and deblitated sub
ect>, suffering from Nervous proSlratiun,
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) ecpcssncss, 10 a healthy and vigorous con.
dition. 1t is made expressly lor The Banker,
he Brokcr, the Farmer, the Mechanic, the
Tradesman, the Molner, the Teacher, the
Doctor, The Clergyman, and all suffering from
any debiiUaled condition Of he Nervous Sys.
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
STRANGE, BuT TRUE.
A Case In Which Fact beats the Widest
Dreams of Fiction.

Dreams of Fiction.
Although Oliver Curtis Perry has seen
but little more than a quarter of century
of life, and although he is not of partic-
ularly robust mold and weighs only
about 1870 pounds, yet he is a criminal
the latest of whose exploits would have
caused the cheeks of the James and
Younger brothers to blanch with dis
may if those veteran and widely cele-
brated appropriations of the property of
others We're now in the active pursuit Of
their profession"
No dime novel author who has the
slightest respect for the intelligence of
his readers would think of making the
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-25
At a vegetarian banquet lately given

At a vegetarian banquet lately given
one of the faithful, a tall, thin man, de-
slared that he would not even eat eggs,
If he should do so he would feel like a
murderer every time hen looked at
him. What the hen would think when
she looked at man who would make
such speech as that we have no means
of knowing, and it is pity,