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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
The Fresh Air Society.

The golden days have come again.
The air is full of new wine, purified by
the great waters, ripened by the sun.
1t is ours to drink our fill without price
and become intoxicated with health and
joy and vim. Let us throng to the
source of supply. Not in the moldy
brewery, the reeking wine parlor or the
fetid saloon of the unwashed herd
shall we find it. Under the open sky,
walking beneath the trees, running
races by the waters we drink the wine
of life ever flowing. Do you know
you throw off every hour of your life
thousands of corpses fatal to human
life; your own as well as other peoples?
Every movement you make, every
thought in your mind, causes cell
changes and the death of cell lives in
your body. Throw them off, or you
carry with you millions of decaying
corpses that fill you with disease.
Breathe fresh air and you throw them
out of your lungs. The more pure air
you have to breathe the more corpses it
will carry away. Breathe foul air, and
you not only breathe in again your own
decaying corpses, but those of every
body around you, with the infinite host
of diseases, evil thoughts, drunkenness,
shame and treachery. No wonder all
the world is sick. The only wonder is
that it stumbles along in blind pain as
well as it does.
These are facts. Let us form great
society, like the Kings Daughters, the
Temperance union or baseball league,
to set them before all the world. Let
the new society enter on a glorious cru
SADIE,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
Ka sNss $500
AGARM.F0lAD
&s aNn CARMEN
THE CONSERVATION OF MeTuRE.
Tho Three Operations of Draing, Sub
soiling and Mulehing

The Three Operations of Draing, Sub,
soiling and Mulehmgi
Crops usually fail or succeeSin pro-
portion as they receive an equ distri-
button or uniform supply o water.
Failures are more frequently aributed
either to a deficiency or a snlus of
rainfalls than to any other caus Hence
one of the chief essentials to elture is
to maintain the presence of proper
amount of available water TO cps, and
so far as practicable guard agnst ex-
cess on either side. And this largely
within the control of the cuivator.
Says Mr., Saunders, the superintendent
of gardens and grounds at Wasington;
Tire three operations of draimg, sub
soiling and mulching when roperly
understood comprise all the rluisites
of success and enable the cultiuor in q
very great measure to regard VIII COM
parative indifference whether ae sea-
son prove unusually wet or usually
dry. If the former, the drains emove
all superfiuous water, and the losening
th,n,,S ~ 80 ,o,os LAY - es "a,,i
e en- ~, 10 s,I po.es, WHICH arIapiuiy
49, aA,' 'iui..i.us 'io svii"eelo DO w
~ ., o.apoa"',on lo.t''iis 'n watei
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oo'Ae ."p'oiy oons'''ou ~ W. ins"'nos
49, na5,.;, g.. oo;, n,,,+ a. a. poia 40.
none whose values are so well estab-
.hn,. 49," 80 60 - a. 30.
, ~ - ,I.;o 80, -, Wv cav
agt 60 "at 20 ''' ho ranauam,s '.,o,
..oas 81 800 ns e! 'iuo,
800, '''" - ;s,aoo t,o wv " ., ..n
9Th IS H. ~, co. al.a,r;,,,, nna ''l.; i,s,
,no;~t,,.o A. aoon . an tha 9 ,oroa ~ smaS
go $50 =, -" w l." g" nhS u ~ ~ nL
""Voi 'e'''cN " oe "'9Oi oeu i'e oo'
Ject Ia draining Is 10 allow the srpius
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
Cost of Lighting the House of Conn ons
1t Never Languishes.

The force in Comptroller Colgans of
fee in Sacramento is wrestling with the
coyote scalp claims again. Other indus
tries may languish and die, but this one
seems to grow in vigor with age. Coun
ty clerks have sent in claims for nine
months, which show that 20,299 scalps
have been taken during that period
which will pull SlO1, 495 from the state
treasury The southern counties espe-
cially are reaping a harvest in this direc-
tion.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
HOW THEY RAISED THE MONEY.
The Manner in Which Otsego's Library
Promoters Got There"

The Manner in Which Otsego's Library
Promoters GOT There"
Otsego was never suspected of being
among the most enterprising towns of
Michigan, but its talented women have
lately given it national fame. 1t has
about 1900 people, two big paper mills
and chair factory, and according to
one vexed citizen it also has 'more rich
men who do nothing for the place than
any other two thousand town in the ma
ton" However, that is common COM
plant with those who have more enter
prise than money.
Early last year forty Otsego ladies
organized into the Ladies' Library asso-
citation, raised money in all the ways
known to the sex, such as socials, fairs,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
Royalty Will Stay Away.

The big race meeting at Ascot thi3
year will probably not be as well attend
ed as usual, as owing to the death Of
the Duke of Clarence no member of the
royal family of England will be present.
The queen is sincere in her grief over
the loss of her favorite grandson, and
has gone to the length of ordering that
the royal stand at the Ascot track be
kept tightly closed, with all the blinds
closely drawn, during the progress Of
the meeting.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

Ravachol, the Paris anarchist, is the
descendant of family of robbers in
the Netherlands, For generations this
family, from father to son, belonged to
an organized band of desperadoes and
highwayman. His grandfather and his
great-grandfathers for two removes
were hanged as murderers. Blood will
tell. 1t is to be hoped that Ravachol
leaves no children. This kind of hered-
ity is one that ought to be stopped.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

In the last two years, and particularly
within the last six months, the Indian
schools, as whole, have filed up with
pupils as at no former time. Almost all
the schools are crowded, many are wait
ing enlargement and some reservations
are in pressing need of boarding schools
among them the Rosebud, the Navajo,
the Apache, the Papago and the Lower
Spokane. On the five reservations just
specified, containing over 80 900 Indians,
and school population five to eighteen)
of not far from 5000, there are only four
boarding schools with capacity of $50
pupils. On one of these reservations
Rosebud) there are day schools with a
capacity for about 400 more, leaving
1850 children upon these five reserva-
tons with no local school accommoda-
tions.-New York Ledger.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
Corn field Reflections,

A farmer communicates his "rehec-
tions while blowing corn stubble" to
Rural New Yorker, as follows:
A fall plowed cornfield makes full
courthouse.
With good land the fodder will pay
for all the labor of raising it.
The corn planter is the farmers friend.
In nine cases out of ten, a tile drain III
a wet cornfeld will pay for the tiles in
one season. and in the tenth case it will
probably more than pay for them.
With wheat at 81; hay at $40, and corr
at $2.75, corn is king.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

In the celebrated duel with Mr.. Bor-
rowe the coat of Mr., Modoc Fox was,
to use the language of the lamented s.
S. Cox, thoroughly wounded in every
respect" and so honor is satisfied. But
the broad grin wave that swept the At
lantio and crossed the American CONT
nent has not yet subsidized, but is now
ripping the Pacific ocean.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
In Germany they have found tina

In Germany they have found that
common peat yields no end of products
of use to man. Among them are gas,
acetic acid, parafine, solar oil, tar and
naphtha. In Sweden and North Ger
many the elastic fiber of peat is used in
textile fabrics, it weaving readily into
carpets and other articles. Peat cellulose
is good for paper making and for pack,
ing material. Finally, meat, fish and
other perishable goods packed in peat
dust will keep fresh a long time, the
dust being preventative.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
The Question of Weight.

"How to Reduce Your Weight or In
crease It." is the title of a valuable work
recently issued by Celia Logan, who has
gained repute both as an actress and as
writer. Having tendency to embon
point, she has tried various reduction
methods, and the story of her personal
experience and final triumph over su-
perhuity of flesh is highly entertaining
and instructive.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

Those political gentlemen and parties
that happen to be- disappointed at the
various conventions of the spring and
summer may console themselves by
quoting the remark of Wendell Phillips,
that "defeat is education" If this be
true, then some of us get good deal of
learning in the course of our lives.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
GOING OUT IN DARKNESS.
Famous Litigant Shut Up in
Molhnnsa

CALIFORNIA; Famous Litigant Shut Up in
Madhouse.
Sarah Althea Hill Sharon Terry's ex-
traordinary career has ended, for the
present at least, in the Stockton Gal
asylum for the insane. The first thirty
years of her life were as bright and
happy as youth, health, comfort and the
loving care of near relatives could make
them; the rest was but sorrow and hui
initiation, and whether the woman was
more sinned against than SHINING is still
matter of dispute among those who have
studied the evidence most carefully.
Suffice it to say that some of the clear
est headed lawyers in San Francisco de-
clared her the lawful wife of Senator
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
1t Is Not a Horn.

Few persons know that the so called
"horn" of the rhinoceros is not horn at
all, but merely protuberance of ag-
CULTIVATED hair. Cut in two and ex-
amined under a microscope it will be
found that it is made up entirely of lit
tie tubes, precisely like the hair struc-
ture.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
bordeaux Mixture,

pounds of sulphate of copper, four
pounds of lime and twenty-five gallons
of water, and is applied by means of a
spraying machine. For use on potatoes
Paris green can be added; the mixture
to be applied as soon as the potatoes are
above ground, and afterward two or
three times or oftener as the condition
of the plants indicate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

"srmy" at Han
per's Ferry, and
the fact that he
is but hfty-seven
years old attcStS
how rapidly his
tory has been
made in the
United States
since 1851 or
thereabouts. He
lives in u hand,
some residence
on one of the pie
turesuun bluifs
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
TIIE
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.

Advice to farmers from the Smith
sonian institution on how to get rid of
grasshoppers-eat them. But the farm
ers will do better to collect several car
loads of this rare delicacy and send it to
the professors of the Smithsonian for
their own eating.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
Rev. VIM. HoIlinshed,

Pastor of the Presbyterian church of
Sparta, n. j.. voluntarily writes strong
" in favor of Hoods Sarsaparilla. He
says: Nothing l know of will cleanse
the blood, stimulate the liver or clean the
stomach like this remedy. | know of
scores and scores who have been helped
or cured by it."
The highest praise has been won by
Hoods Pills for their easy, yet efficient
action.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06


No ShOrtN B'uCk. >tJ,t't, Washing ,on.
To tue ruy> ,l.tI ii Cnars o, Medical Depa T.
medt >.Jud.-d Medicine Co, Bosom, Mh-s
Nv Dear Docio-: For seserg, year, have
bcetl srHe fng eeNe.elv rom nervous pos a.
.toa aud i oecur,,t and unaCs ouutan'e IL hcui'Y
" uiCh 90 uuv -itau w"Om Uu.u hCu seemeu %
uude -,guu. Dut wuG ii Kept me mos OF ,he Gme
Ia I, , Und GA Uhti,teu 'OT bu-'ue>s, aud iuor-
ou-n,, " e,,utu % III ud aud uOdv. Inc most
70 tun..e ~. .ul.,Lu,t o. INV e Wa NEE ng
VOC To my H.. on .umuut yUu scene" 20 unueti
.,,l,t n,g ,J-e no o. uly, anu .ue c,utn e, yuh
p,,c ne 90 ,ivuia''y PteJV An \tEtE CON
rot 50 W -OU-ut ,ue mo-, ma Ve'ou> thHn-e ~
NV nrta,u. / nave uecn al ng ne t0n"uu1d
!t-ut...rs % some mouth, suu L nas tndhe
urW ,n.,n u,e. NJ ie.tlth j. he,.e tudu il mas
urra E. nrp Is s. ana AN aU'e % tatn-a.t uuei-
ne. con, .puou, ". luou-H no. nu. ,e Te>to!eu,
.u, ;ttr % tufu. OVtmcut j. tuu~tJNt'F acHtttid
,iu. rnu nave 10 dOupt I09y IN mon, or Two
,u,.. npa- wei a. c,ue" men. aud ane 20 TO as
mucnvo.A. he ueut o. 9 a,t,uue owe 10 you
!, ne> oud cOmpt'a a. on'
You ate OF rely Il, .,neYty 10: erto me at any
,tnir " 40 1eeertuvt a he mr.it- Of PERUVIAN
CON Pound N pa gu a, and your supreme
auf't,y a, ply slcIau ia ScHe at.
Yours vt-N 4tuly,
LIE j. PIINER.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

The village of Ashby is in great
state of excitement over the coming
election on account of the license ques-
ton. The temperance people presented
the play "Ten Nights in Barroom" last
night with a view to influencing votes
Cor. Minneapolis Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

William Sharon.
and that Judge
j. Sullivan, be-
fore whom the
matter was first
tried, decided in
her favor, giving
her heavy alimo-
ny and declaring
her to be entitled
to a wife's share
of the senator's
$50, 900. He
fought it with all
the talent his
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

A young lady of Jefferson, West Vir-
gina, declares that she was all run down
before taking Ayers Sarsaparillai but
that NOW she is gaining strength every
day. Ayers Sarsaparilla is certainly a
wonderfully effective tonic for the feeble
and delicate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

A sixty mile ferry is a novelty OF
rather doubtful success, but the Toledo,
Ann Arbor and Northern Michigan rail
road proposes to have one across Lake
Michigan from Kewaunee to Frankfort.
The ferry steamer now in course of con-
Btruction will cost $250,000, and it is
expected to carry forty freight cars and
make the sixty mile crossing in five
hours. This will save from six dollars
to twelve dollars on each car, the shift
ing of freights costing that much more
than ferrying the cars, and there will
be much less liability to breakage
Should it prove successful, Milwaukee
will also have ferry, and big results
are expected.
Cost of Lighting the House of Commons.
While the electric light has been ap
piled in the house of commons at an
nual cost estimated for the coming year
at Ell 800, the gas bill increases rather
than diminishes. Last year it was
e3, 900; for the coming year it is be-
lieved it will not be less than G3.200
There is some slight reduction on the
bill for oil lamps, which before the in
PRODUCTION of the electric light used reg
ularly to amount to $4,000 a season
Last year this charge was reduced to
81 300, and it is hoped that in the com
ing year the amount will not exceed
81 ,550.-London Tit-Bits
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
HE FOUGHT UNDER JOHN BROWN.

The Sole survivor of the Harper's Ferry
Raid Resident of Rhode Island,
Colonel Richard W. Howard, Of Cone
sett, near Providence, is the sole sur
vivor of old John Browns famous
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

Baptist church,
Richmond, has
renewed popular
interest in this
quaint, hut ruly
good old negro.
He was born in
1879, in Fluyanna
county, Va, and
was a slave till
1865, but enjoyed
rather unusual
liberty and was
a noted preacher
among the slaves.
After the war he
grew raDidly IN
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
Raging Torrent.

How many valuable lives might be saved
yearly it taken in lime Are you tired Ale
you weak ? Are YOU sick ? Are you sleep
less ? Have YOU lndigc> ion or Dyspepsja9
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Heart. OF a tendency to Heart Failure Itso
take the great Nerve Remedy. ELlNlR
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but 1t will cure more han we claim.
See what Henry l.. Mills of Boston the
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Folsom one of Bos,on's great Merchant saws
of Peruvian Nerve Compound. Read what
Lee !. puncr, the great Banker Of Seattle,
Washington. SAYS it did for bun. Read what
it did for MIS- Russ and Mrs. Snow. Read
their testimonials. A word TO the wise is sut-
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Pre-, rip,on and advice free. Write at once,
as delays are dangerous.
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| Boston Mass.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
"rHs SUN DO MOVE" JASPER.
A Famous Coiored Preacher. Who Re-
GENTLY Got Married.
The recent am

Therecent announcement of the mar
riage, for the fourth time, of the Rev.
John Jasper, of the Sixth Mount Zion
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06

Spring Bargains
At The
New York Store
Ladies' Jersey Vests, Sc.
Ladies' fast black Hoes, Sc.
Ladies' Muslin Chemise CSC.
Ladies' Muslin Drawers csc.
Ladies Muslin Night Gowns so.
Window Shades with fix
lures complete, 20, IS & Doc
GOOD CARPETS,
n. 2s, Is and 3Jc.
10 ri. Tin Pals, &c
10 o. Dish Pan &c.
Curry combs, Sc.
Lubiu's Toilet Soap, lc. cake.
Bluin., large boxes, lc.
shoe Backing. per box, lc.
Nutmeg Graiers. lc., Good Tumblers Sc
Clothes Inns Sc.
Table Oil Cloths, l3c. a Yard.
5 quires Note Paper, 10c.
White Envelopes, Sc, bunch
Lead Pencils, DC. a dozen.
Shoe Brushes, sc.
Floor Oil Cloth, 25c. a yd.
Veneer Chair Seats, Sc.
Chamber Pals, 25c.
Chamber or Toilet Sets, LBS
Curtain pole, & fixtures, 19c.
Best zinc washboards, 1Sc.
Decorated China Tea Sets,
worth S.. for So.
Mems Jersey Shirts,
Lace fronts; 23c.
Large size China Cups
and Saucers, Zoe.
Large size china shaving
Mugs Zoe.
Brush Broom>, Sc.
And many other bargains at
The
New York Store,
Manchester Depot, Vt.
Terms Cash. Only.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-06
ELIXIR VITA
Peruvian Nerve Compound.

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This Compound acts principally through the
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-12
THE NEW GAS WELL.
The Union Pacific Excursion to Lake
Shore, Last Night.
IT WAS A COMPLETE SUCCESS.


The Union Pacific excursion TO the
Lake Shore natural gas wells iast night
was grant success. The train which
lef, ihl. city al 1915 was comprised OF
twelve coaches aud two engines.
Every seat was occupied and many
persons were compelled to stand on the
platforms and along the aislus. 1t IL
estimated that nOt less than one thou
sand persons were ON the train. one
car was set apart for the exclusive use
OF the members Of the Territorial Lesls'
lature aud representatives Of the ptess.
Among them were Included reporters
OF Denver, Omsha and ~. Louis pa
pers. Owing 10 two or three short de-
lays the train did not reach It's dcstina'
ton until S O'Clock. ON arriving ut the
gas fields n great rush was made
10 the wells situate about n quarter OF
a mile to the west Of the truck. The
country was III up for considerable
distance around by the burning gas,
and the air was full Of a variety Of
whistle sounds made by the escaping
gas through pipes prepared for the
purpose. Large numbers Of country
folk were thefe In wagons, carriages
AMI sleighs.
The grand illumination was from
the old wells only, tile new one not
yet having been lighted. Col0red hrc
powder OF several hues was put upon
the flames aud the effect was most
pleasing. -.
Suddenly the valves ni the big well
was opened aud aterrlhc roar followed.
The numbling could be heard afar Oh,
and the vibrations OF the earth were
plainly perccptiblc.
a continuous stream OF gas shot
forth In the air Ia a perpendicular
column for probably les feet, aud In
the moonlight looked very beautiful.
Three successive attempts were made
to ignite the vapor by discharging
Roman candles into the column. AS
many failures followed on account OF
the candles being imperfect THIS
fourth attempt was, however, success
ful. AS the burning missile came In
contact with the gas u terrific ex-
plosiOn followed ana tongues Of flames
shot skywarJ many feet. The spectacle
was n magnificent one, aud an excited
hurrah went up from the enthusiastic
spectators. This well was allowed TO
bum during the brief stay Of the visit.
ore on the ground.
several eastern experts were present
anu Pronounced the gns Us being Of the
best quality. SRinabury * johnson
took a numbor Of photographs Of the
new wells.
At O'Clock tho excursionists re-.
turned TO the city, highly pleased with
their trip anu satisfied that natural gas
exists here Ia unlimited quantities.