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Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-20

Magic Mosquito Lotion absolute
preventative, at Smiths Drug Store
Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-20

Blue Lick Springs water on tap, at
lightfoots Drug Store.
Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-20

The only delightful ice cream soda,
at j. A. Lightfoots. 81
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
To Get Rich.

Mr.. Erastus Wiman has been telling
young men how to get rich again. First
of all you must never go in debt, never,
unless you can thereby certainly secure
immediate and profitable returns. Then
use your credit. But otherwise the per-
son who goes in debt pawns his future.
Having determined to keep out of
debt, then begin to save regularly and
Systematically. For this purpose moth
ing is better than to lay up your savings
in a loan and building association, called
III Massachusetts cooperative bank,
which is a good name. The combined
capital of building associations in this
country exceeds that of the national
banks. The next step is to get hold of
some land, a plot near growing town
or city. If you live in the country and
cannot get a town lot get farm or
portion of farm. Agricultural lands
are bound to become valuable soon, be-
cause there are those now living who
will see in this country population of
1870, 100000, all of whom must be fed.
If, however, it is not convenient to get
land in any shape, then invest your say
ings in industrial stocks of some kind,
as, for instance, the great oil, sugar and
lead industries. Combination is the or
der of the day in the business world, ana
those will make fortunes who seize on
the spirit of the time. Then, says Mr..
Wiman, watch the first symptoms of
economic changes and go in on the top
wave. This is all very fine and wise.
At the same time many of the large for
tunes have been made by disregarding
every one of the rules laid down by Mr..
Wiman. On the other hand, thousands
who have observed his most important
rules all their lives are as poor as a
church mouse and likely to remain so.
One can't always tell.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
women Are Good Customers.

The custom of keeping bank ac,
counts has increased with surprising
rapidity among the women of New
York With the last five years
There are two banks-the Lincoln
national and the Fifth avenue
which have upward of l,50O women
depositors each, and special facilities
are enjoyed by women in these two
banks, Important alterations are
now being made in the internal ar
rangement of the Lincoln bank in or.
der to give better accommodation
to the female customers, General
Thomas l., James, president of the
bank, said that of the So, 633, 600 of
deposits then on hand fully $1,000.
600 stood to the credit of women,
When asked how the women in gen.
eral managed their accounts, Mr..
James said that they were more
methodical and more careful than
the men, They kept their books
written up more closely than the
men and never attempted to over
draw their accounts. They are the
best kind of customers for bank to
have" added the president. New
York Times,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
Bad Country for Newspapers.

There is no such thing as really free
country on earth, social philosophers
say. But that some are considerably
freer than others is proved by the arrest
of the editors of the Cologne Gazette
for criticiZing the celebrated speech
made recently by the German emperor
at Brandenburg. In that speech his
majesty recommended everybody who
did not support him, Emperor Billy,
to shake the dust from his feet and get
out of Germany. He further said he
would grind to powder those who OPP
posed him
If monarch in any other kingdom of
Europe except Russia had made such
silly and violent remarks, every newspa-
per in the realm would have been out in
criticism against him next morning and
spoken in no measured terms. Thus much
has been gained for the press-even in
Europe. But in Germany this foolish
ruler will allow no criticism of any of
his acts in the newspapers. One thing
is plain, he is brewing for himself such
storm that one of these days, unless
meantime he learns to keep his mouth
shut and modify his notions to suit the
requirements of modern times, his king
dom will come tumbling down over his
head. Instead of leaving Germany his
subjects will rise in body and make
him leave it, that in short order too.
William seems to have never heard of
the French revolution.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
A Centenary of Mourning.

This year whole nation, the people
of the country that was opse Polans,
wears mourning, The women will ap.
pear clad in black garments, the men
will wear Grape bands, till the year 1898
strikes, 1t means that century ago, in
li9s, was completed the final crime by
which nation was wiped off tho earth,
chiefly by the Vaccinations of Russia,
and divided between Austria, Prussia
and Russia, Russia got the most of it,
Prussia the least, Icing then herself u
fmall and comparatively weak nation,
Russia had meant to gobble it all up for
herself udt the other powers would not
listen to this, so in order to quiet them
she consented to divide.
AS far back as 1864 Russia was at
work to get Poland. An army sent by
the great Catherine watched over the
polls at IT, election which placed Stan
islaus upon the throne of Poland in that
year,
Stanislaus was the tool of Catherine
and the bayonets of her soldiers kept
him on the throne, An army of 10000
Russians remained in the country. Po-
lish patriots, at the head of them Count
Pulaski rose in arms to drive the Rus
slams from their land. Catherine called
this revolution and rebellion and OPP
posed it on the ground that the patriots
were "brigands." The strategic tactics
and peculiar diplomacy that have char
acterized Russia ever since We're mean
time brought to bear with all their force
against unhappy Poland. In 1899 Kos
ciusllo took the lead and hurled all the
force of hapiess Poland against Russia.
But it was in vain, and Polands star
went down.
Three generations have passed since
then, yet today the love of liberty is as
strong among Russian, Austrian and
German Poles, and the sorrow for their
lost autonomy is as keen as ever. 1t
ought to be a lesson and warning to
great states that take possession of little
states and blot them out of existence by
simple right of being the stronger. Rus
STA will have black reckoning to pay
some day.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

or rock ana gravel, sana aud clay, While
its building was going ON nine-tenths Of
the people of Brooklyn knew nothing of
what was being done underneath their
feeE Many We're barely conscious that
anything was being done at all. Seven
shafts We're sunk, and this necessitated a
little temporary Encouragement of car
tracks. These and the burrows of dirt
that came up the seven lifts" We're the
only evidences of the labors in the city's
depths.
The contracts were let in late June
and early July, 1890, and the working
time was two years Unlike most city
works, it will be finished within the days
specified, the lower portion being al.
ready in u-c The work was divided
into two sections, it being found that as
the canal was approached the line passed
through made ground aad dangerously
near the surface, within four or five feet
toward the end, The tunneler wants at
least twenty-five feet between him and
the roadway, that he may work with
bedrock overhead.
Section No. |, considerably less than
half mile, was built, therefore, in
open cut, Part of it is circular, exactly
conforming to the hnnel, which it
joins, but owing to the low elevation
above tide level near the outlet it be-
came necessary to change the form there
to rectangular section, 81 feet wide
and feet high, and again II feet wide
and 6 feet high, These sections were
covered by brick arches between steel
beams, tied by iron rods, the whole
covered with hot asphalt pitch.
The work in the open cut, however,
was child's play compared with that in
the tunnel. In the course of construc-
ton the figures delving there seemed
gnomes or moles rather than men. Ex-
cept for the completed patchwork above
and below it seemed like some huge end
less boiler, lit here and there with the
radiance of an incandescent bulb and
the flicker of II candle in the hands of
an inspector, A curious labor fact is to
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
Many an enterprising young debater

Many an enterprising young debater
is asking just what is meant by the
term free silver" Well, free silver.
as is understood by those who are
advocating it, means the privilege of
taking silver bullion to the United
States mints and having it made into
standard coins free of charge. This is
what is done with gold now. But under
the present silver law the owner of sill
yer bullion sells it to the government at
so much per ounce. The government
pays him for the silver and either coins
it into dollars or issues silver certificates
that represent its value. This is the
present difference in the bases on which
gold and silver coinage stand before the
lnu-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
Peter IbbetSOn's True Dreams,

The most original idea advanced in
recent fiction is that of George du Maui
rier in Peter Ibbetson." The heroine
is married to another man, the unhappy
hero Is shut up i'll an asylum, yet these
two devoted lovers are constantly to-
gether in their dreams. They walk,
they talk of their love, they pass bliss
full hours in dream life. They remember
in their waking life the rapture of these
dream hours, and the remembrance COM
forts them inexpressibly. So they live
on to middle life and old age, always
lovers, always as happy as in the first
hours of loves young dream. They
travel together in their dreams on long,
sweet journeys that give them Joy I'M
speakable. They never tire of one an
other, as the most devoted of lovers
sometimes do in real life-after they are
married. On the contrary, they are to
one another always young, splendid and
beautiful. After the years of childhood
they met in the flesh but twice in their
lives, yet in the true dreams" they met
constantly. Peter Ibbetson" is the
most remarkable psychological novel
written recently.
But what a world Of joy it would lie
if others, like Peter Ibbetson and his
lost love, could meet in true dreams.
Across the ocean, over half hemisphere
would fly the thoughts of those who
were dear to one another. 1t would be
like no parting at all between loved
ones. The happiness mankind enjoyed in
dreams would make them strong to bear
the toughest of the ills that come upon
them in the external world, knowing
night had only to let fall her gentle cur
tain, and then would begin the life in
which, in full splendor, all the fondest
hopes and dreams of each mortal would
be realized.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
TESTIMONIALS.

Standard Medicine Co.,
Gentlemen: l think no one can be more rolii
petent than myself TO speak of the marvellous
Virtues of he PERUVIAN NERVE CoMPoUSD
Three years ago was on the point of succumb-
Ing entirely 10 nervous prostratiun, when it was
prescribed for me. The effect was wonderful
Strength driSted rapid Y back to me, and | be-
came conscious of a buOyant Joyous sensation
rarely experienced by any person not in vigo.
rous health. l think this Is specific quality of
this Compound for in reco mmcnding and even
administering it to ailing and feeble friertls at
different times, have closely watched its II suits
aud always found that 1t strengthened and invia;
Grated mentally as well physically. We en-:
any member of the family begin to lose vitality,
we know that 1t can be speedily restored.
never speak of this exquisite Compound of
cholce and rare extracts by its prOSaic name but
offer draught of 1t as the wine of life meaning
the essence of the life force which it always
seems TO me, it contains within itself
OF This Compound can never say enough. |
believe you must have discovered the boarded
secret OF some long orgotten alchemist, solved
Its mystery, and are now benefiting mankind
with it.
| wish | could feel sure that might have
three easpJontuls a day of it as long as l live
| eau say with perfect truth, that | never have
taken or have known of remedy which pro;
duced exactly the effect that this Ccmpound
does, and it is rot merely upon one person, but
upon all whom nave known TO have used it,
MRS. C.. Il. RUSS.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
Our Moral Brain Areas.

Edward Payson Jackson has consider
able to say in The Popular Science
Monthly about the moral educability of
the race. He reminds us of the three
different areas into which the human
brain is divided by certain scientific in
dividuals, AS it is generally conceded
to be the center of intellectual activity,
so also it is the center of physical and
moral expression. a certain area is de-
voted to each of these three sets of fac
ulties. If the brain is small and the
Convolutions shallow in the intellectual
area, then the subject is but feeble wit
ted. If his convolutions are few and
the space limited in the physical area Of
his brain, then he will suffer from inva-
hdism; and the same is true of the
moral convOlutions.
Accordingly, if you would know
whether man is honest, or strong, or
intellectual, examine his brain tracts.
These will show whether there is in his
areas any feeble or arrested develop
mont. That is what defective intellect
or moral character is called now.
Mr.. Payson thinks mans intellectual
and physical brain tracts developed first,
ages ago, i'll fact. The great Drained
man of today is no way superior to
Plato, Copernicus or the other old fell
lows who were the great lights of the
ancients. Neither are our strong and
good looking men of today finer than
the Greek athletes. But the capacity of
the human race for moral improvement
in plainly shown to Mr.. Payson's mind
by the fact of the decline of the death
penalty for small offenses, the torture
rack, the gladiatorial shows and bull
fights. Mankind is more humane and
altruistic than it used to be, altogether.
Maybe so. All the same, few weeks
ago man was burned at the stake by
party of lynchers in one of the states of
this Union and woman applied the
tnrch
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

be noted in connection with the work.
There was hardly an Irishman or an
Italian at the pick or car, but instead a
body of Swedes. They proved, SO the
records say, both diligent and faithful,
nor would there have been the slightest
tremor of fear among them had an omi-
nous cracking sound came.
The method of tunnel construction in
use was Il curious and a novel one. 1t
was experimental within the excavati II
of smaller masonry sewer in Brooklyn
in 1885 and 1886, and it worked to a
charm. This present sewer, though, is
the first, so far as is known, 70 be built
solely in this way. A small tunnel
technically a pilot" six feet in diameter.
composed of sheets Of rolled boiler iron,
is built into the central part of the exca-
walton on the axis of the tunnel. The
men work from the inside, excavating
enough to advance plate or sheet and
bolt it firmly on. The material around
the exterior of the pilot is then excavated
and braces are set radiating from it, SUP
porting ribs of iron which form the out
SLUG Silell 10 nOlu the edfIn IN place until
the masonry is built. The bricks are
laid on boards, closely following the
tunnel line.
The masonry is left twenty-four hours
to harden, and then boards, outer shell
and braces are taken away. The rear
plates of the pilot" are unbolted and
removed. In the meantime the excava-
ton has been carried forward, prepar-
ing the way for further brickwork.
The pilot" is usually kept about thirty
feet ahead.
The silt and trap basin at the outlet
is ingeniously contrived. Here all solid
matter is caught ON screens and odors
are imprisoned. 1t consists of a boxlike
structure, sixty feet long and eighty
wide, divided into two chambers. In
the first are the screens, and the odors
rise into the arch above. The flow pass
es through twenty 3G-inch pipes, over a
trap wall and thence goes out into the
canal through like pipes eight feet be-
low mean high water.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of
Robert Elsmere" and David Grieve,"
promises to be the George Eliot of her
generation. Like George Eliot she
never INDUCES in the small talk of So
ciety. Her conversation is on grave
problems of life. George Eliot always
seemed to feel that responsibility rested
on her to say something that would help
people or make them think of the deeper
philosophical, moral or artistic ques-
tons. Her conversation was a grave,
sweet music. So we are told it is with
Mrs. Ward.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18
The DolGevilIe Way.

Whenever any great manufacturing
establishment or corporation has sue
ceeded in establishing satisfactory CO.
operative relations with its employees,
giving them share of the surplus earn
ings and creating such cordial spirit
on both sides that there are never any
strikes or labor troubles, it has been, al
most without exception, brought about
through one man, the founder of the in
dustry. When that founder has died,
moreover it is the history of such en-
terprises that they straightway go to
pieces. If the Dolgeville system of di-
viding surplus earnings with working
men goes down when its founder, AL
fred Dodge, leaves the world, it will be
a pity.
He came to America from Germany
when young man, without cent, but
with good knowledge of how to make
the kind of felt required for the ham,
mers OF pianos. He could also make all
the parts of a piano His father had
been socialist in Germany and suf-
fered imprisonment for his opinions
The son inherited just enough of his
fathers ideas to make him kindly dis
posed to the workingman, at the same
time that he kept his head level enough
to use shrewd business sense in all his
undertakings.
He began the manufacture of piano felt
in Brooklyn twenty-three years ago.
Eighteen years ago he went to Brack-
ett's Bridge, N. Y, where there was a
magnificent water power, and estab-
lished his factory there. The place is
now called Dolgeville and has loo
inhabitants. When Dodge bought the
old tannery and turned it into factory
the town had scarcely hundred inhab-
ltants. 1t now has the best of schools.
fine library and handsome club
house for the working people. 1t is
beautiful town. Dolges worlmen have
an annual banquet with their employer.
At the last one there were present 700.
The industries at Dolgeville now in
clude piano felt and sounding boards
for pianos, with other articles made
from lumber, and felt shoes. The feature
in which all the world is interested,
however, is Mr.. Dolge's provision for
his workingmen. The provision is made
from the surplus earnings of the fac
tories. 1t embraces pension system
for old age, life insurance plan by
which the lives of all employees are in
sured, and third an endowment scheme.
By this last an employee who has
worked for the firm over five consecu-
tive years has credited to him each year
such an amount.as he has produced for
the firm above his wages. He gets per
cent. on this amount, and the principal
Is paid to him when he is sixty years
old. If, on the other hand, he has
caused loss to the firm the loss is
charged against his endowment account.
II at the end of year it is shown that
any department has made unusual prof
its, the surplus is divided with the
workmen IN that department.. Mr..
Dolge's creed is that capital and labor
should divide the profits between them.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

tits wonderful process, that by which
barrels and casks are now made directly
from the wood without the slaves being
first made. A tree is cut into lengths
suitable for the height of the barrel
The short log thus formed is boiled three
hours in water through which a current
of electricity is constantly passing. The
softened wood is then cut into layers of
sheets the right size for the barrel. The
sheets are grooved for the heads and are
pressed in form which gives the proper
taper. Last of all the single joint is
fastened together and the barrel is COM
plete
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

From June. 1891 to January. 1892 544 =
625 hogs were examined under the new
meat inspection law. Nearly per cent.
OF the swine We're affected with trichina,
which shows the need Of the new hog
law. Of cattle, 2,04S,7C5 passed the
rlg1d examination now demanded by
the United States government, and of
these less than one-tenth of per cent
were found to be unhealthy. What
country could make better showing
than this in the matter of healthy beef?
No wonder our meats are getting a good
name abroad at last.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

Wood pulp has been found useful for
a variety of purposes. 1t is now nodded
into any shape desired stained and var
nished and affixed to furniture so skill
fully that it cannot be distinguished
from wood carved and turned. 1t has
also been found to serve an excellent
purpose as AZ antifriction material for
water wheels and other wheels under
water. 1t is first hardened in molds I'M
der enormous pressure. Then it makes
a grantees substance which can be
bored, drilled and worked in all respects
like metal. Used for the various pur-
poses of machinery it has one great ad-
vantage, and that is it requires no olling.
1t is especially valuable in bearings. and
has been tested in this line in cotton
spinning machines, dynamos, steam en-
gines, etc. After months of usage with
out any oiling the wood pulp bearings
have been found to be still in good CON
dition. aud the friction was one-tlird
less than with tho Ordinary bearings.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-18

bout region of the navy yard, place of
lumber and market wagons. This and
the land directly back of it is known as
the flooded district" for Immediately
after great rain the outlet sewer gets
choked with the volume of water pour
ing down the HILL the torrent backs,
rises in the manholes, throws off the
covers and deluges the streets, flooding
the easements and cellars of houses
near by.
To dispose of this surplus storm wa
ter was the problem that the engineers
of the city cudgeled their brains over
for several years. 1t would not answer
to enlarge the Wallabout sewer, for as
the city grew SO would that be out
grown. The engineering riddle was
finally solved in the building of re
lief" or great storm" sewer, cutting
across the existing pipes at right angles
and tapping them in their course river
ward.
1t was not intended that the new
storm sewer" should take off all the
water in the old pipes. The normal
amount of drainage is still to keep on in
its former course. But, by a clever az
rangement of stone coping, whenever
the flow exceeds that the surplus will
drop down many feet into the tunnel of
the new sewer, and having thus acquired
a mighty head" or impetus will rush
along into the waters of New York bay.
That there might be sufficient head
for the storm water a great depth was
necessary. Therein lies the feat of en-
gineering now on the verge of accom-
plishment. Instead of being long pipe
set deep in a trench after the fashion of
most sewers, the relief sewer is great
round gallery of solid masonry, its
diameter never less than ten feet and in
creasing as the cross sewers are reached
to twelve, fourteen and fifteen feet. Its
distance below the street varies with the
inequalities of the surface.
Where Brooklyn hill first commences,
less than mile from the outlet at Go
wanus canal, its depth is 80 feet Eight
hundred feet farther on this becomes Al;
1900 feet more and it is increased to 66:
but a little distance farther it reaches
its greatest depth, n feet, and at its be-
ginning, 81 miles from the canal, the
tunnel is 50 feet below the surface
Its light is hidden under bushel-un-
der many thousand bushels, as it were