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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Whatever else may or may not be
true with regard to present social tend
encies, it is certain that weak eye
sight, nervous diseases, insanity and
crimes of dishonesty are increasing in
excess of the population everywhere in
civilization. There are more criminals
who can read and write in our peniten-
tiaries than there used to be; there are
perhaps nearly two insane persons where
there used to be one; there are three
school children and young people wear
ing glasses where there used to be one.
The reason is to be found in the mod
Brn system of education. The public
schools have been modelled on the col
lege of century ago, where the student
learned Latin and Greek, little ancient
history, with some mathematics and
physics, all out of books. Burning the
midnight oil while coming books was
the road to wealth and happiness. The
book cramming system has now reached
the point where it must break down. 1t
has proved utterly inadequate to the
needs of mankind at the threshold of
the Twentieth century. We must have
new system of training for school chill
dren. The kindergarten plan through
out is the true one.
The new system must educate the
child harmoniously, developing his
physical, moral, mental and affectional
natures. 1t must introduce him to life
with trained eye, hand, heart and rea-
soning powers. He must learn to think
instead of to memorize.
The beginning Of the new education
will be to burn the dead pile of books
which is breaking down the youth.
Printed rules of rhetoric, grammar,
punctuation and composition must be
the first to go. What does it profit any
human creature to know the definition
of synechdoche, anapest, or even the diff
ference between metaphor and SIM
lie? What good is served by torturing
a poor little wretch till he learns to re-
peat the rule for long division?
Aschool superintendent of many years
experience says that the boys who re-
cited the best lessons and memorized
rules best sunk in after life to inferior
positions, while the ones who had to
take time to think were those who
climbed into prominence. Physical per-
fection, moral culture, the sentiment Of
brotherhood, the power to reason, polite
ness, manual training and the three RS
are what we want in common school
education now. Specific training for a
particular trade or profession can be
superimposed upon this.
Clear away the old trash. Make room
for the new education which takes in
the whole human being. The teacher
who sees this and applies it first will be
the one whose pupils will never tire of
school, the one whose pupils will enter
the world noble, accomplished men and
women
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18


A state convention of the Baptist
young people opened at Burlington
Tuesday. This meeting is held to
consider plan of organizing state
Baptist Young Peoples union. Rev.
DIR. Roberts of Burlington delivered
an address of welcome and response
was made by Rev. E. A. Herring
of Brandon. In the evening an ad-
dress was made by Rev. W. r.
Baldwin of Saxtons River on
sPlasticity and Pluck" and to the
young people by Rev. F. j. Parry
of Brattleboro.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

There appeared in this column last
week brief article in relation to the
bill before the Legislature to make
mileage books good on all railroads.
The article was written by a town
correspondent and it appeared as an
editorial through mistake in 'smak-
ing up" This would not be worth
mentioning but for the fact that the
SITTER hardly agrees with its cores
dondent. While we should be pleas,
ed to see such an arrangement
brought about it is matter of doubt
whether the state has the right tc
compel one railroad to take the paper
of another road, any more than /,
could compel one merchant to take
the due bill of another. The matter
of the constitutionality of such bill
is now before the Massachusetts
courts. Without doubt the railroad
committee took some such view in
the premises and acted entirely con.
scientiously.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
Sifterlets-ShOrt and Snappy.

"Flirting with truth" is latter day
definition of plain, old-fashioned lying
The man who lost his money is now
thoroughly convinced that it is very
wicked to bet on elections.
The defeated candidate usually has
poor opinion of the judgment of his
fellow citizens.
The cabinet makers are already
hard at work. They do more work
for less pay than any other men in
this country.
The Chicago man who eloped with
three telephone girls, simultaneously,
is doubtless jibberlng idiot by this
time, unless he is stone deaf.
After everything else has been sug'
gested as the cause of the result, that
is cheering or depressing according
to your point of view, it may occur tc
some of the explainers that it was
votes.
The jawsmith who has had the flool
for weeks will now have to come
down to plebeian work, with his
hands, while his tongue is given o
rest.
"How to avoid colds" is again 8
standing headline in the newspapers
Is it because people object to taking
advice that nine out of every ten yor
meet have a cold
The "foaters" have foated off or
the restless tide of humanity, at leas
those of them who did not get "col
Jared" for illegal voting have foatet
off.
IT'S better to have voted and los
than never to have voted, is para
phrase of an old maxim which may
prove balm for some wounded heart
"Out of the frying pan into th'
fire." Before Texas has chance tt
recover from the most remarkable DO
litical campaign in its history it il
visited by the government rail-
makers.
B'r'er Harrison is prudent mar
and he never takes any chances wher
he can help himself. He issued hi.
Thanksgiving day proclamation sew
eral days before election.
When the number of those who
"knew all the time just how it woulG
be" is considered il seems strange
that overcoats and derbies of the vim,
tage of 80 and '91 are still worn ir
SuCu iaiSc Huuuclo.
Ben Butler has begun his seventy.
fifth annual run against father time
Ben does not use pneumatic tires, mol
run on kite-shaped track, but it is
hoped that he will "get there" in his
usual good style.
Political prophets are never downe6
by failure to correctly prognosticate
The very fellows who made the worst
blunders in predicting the result OF
the election now come up smiling tc
tell the names of the members of the
next cabinet.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Erastus Wiman says the receipts of
the transatlantic steamships would be
cut down at least one-third by cholera
epidemic next summer. The whole
country would be affected proportion
ately. Every precaution against a
cholera visitation in 1893 must therefore
he taken
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
All Sorts.

Prince Bismarck says the American
lacks army officers.
A Laplander will often skate 15(
miles in a day.
In India there is species of crow
that laughs just like a human being.
The saloons of London, if set side by
side. would reach distance of seventy
five miles.
The Dead Sea is nothing more thar
a small but very old salt lake now in
an advanced stage of evaporation.
Paul B. Du Chaillu says that while
he was in Africa he had $4,000 oppor.
tunities to marry and declined them all.
Able List first concert programme,
when he was only nine years old, has
been discovered. 1t bears the date Of
1920. The performance was given in
Oldenburg.
The famous Bank of Venice began
business in 1892, lasted 900 years, and
might have existed to this day but fol-
the invasion of Napoleon.
Fine voices, says Good Health, are
seldom found in a country where fish
or meat diet prevails. Those Italians
who eat the most fish, those of Naples
and Genoa, have few fine singers
among them. The sweet voices are
found in the Irish women.
Just before the sermon the other
evening in Cambridge Mass. )church
the electric lights went out. But they
were not initiated in that respect by the
congregation. On the contrary, every.
body stayed and listened to the pastor
while he threw light on the subject he
had chosen for his sermon.
Queen Victoria is quite success
full farmer, and has taken 447 prizes
at English cattle shows.
Mr.. Gladstone's physician is put
ting still more restraints upon him,
and insisting upon his adopting every
means of economizing his failing
strength.
Mrs. Wills, who has just died in
London, was the author of the remark
that females who fought strenuously
for women's rights were generally
mems lefts.
The only specimen of fossilized Oh
petrified cave man ever found in the
United States was that discovered by
an exploring party at Craighead cave
near Monroe, Tenn, in 1882.
An electric incubator, in which the
temperature of the egg drawer is au
tomatically regulated to the fiftieth Of
a degree Fahrenheit, has been exhib
tied in Liverpool.
There is sign on the entrance tt
a London cemetery which reads
"No admittance except on business.
1t seems that 25 per cent of tn,
women of England earn their owl
living, but one would scarcely believ,
that there are nearly $50 femal,
blacksmiths in England, which, how
ever, sounds no stranger than th'
statement that women may now b,
seen driving cabs in New York
Chambers journal.
A good steel bowed, nickle plated
cork nose eye glass for 80 cents, at
CHAs. A. TRIP & Co., Jewellers,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

The French campaign in Dahomey
lasted two months and half, ending
with the capture of Behanzin's capital
Abomey. 1t contains $4,000 inhabitants
and had ditch and hedge of thorn
bushes around it. But the French got
in, the fierce Dahomeyans fighting them
every step of the way. OF French
soldiers under Colonel Dodds in the
African campaign there were 1000.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Two eminent divines, Professors
Briggs and Smith, are now on trial
for heresy. Clarkson, Quay & Co.
would like to try the thousands of
Republicans who voted for Cleveland
on the same charge. But then
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
Londonderry, May 26, 1892.
So. Londonderry, VT, July IL, 1892.

So. Londonderry, VT, July II, 1892.
GEORGE G. SMITH,
SIR used myself and in
my family last winter three bottles of
your Rheumatic Cure with most excellent
results. l had rheumatism three or four
years previous to that time, but it COM
menccd to relieve me almost at once and
have not been troubled with it since
taking the first bottle My general health
was also very much improved by its use.
could mention also members of my fam
lily who used the remedy at the same time
and received much benefit thereby.
consider it very valuable medicine and
do most heartily recommend it.
C. D. FARNUM.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
New York, Sept. End, 1892

New York, Sept. End, 1892.
Mr.. GEO SMITH,
Sir Enclosed please find money
order for bill sent for your cure, and can
say that it is the only thing of the kind
that has proved to do what is claimed,
and have ordered these six bottles to
give to my friends claiming that it will do
the same for them, not only for the time
being but permanent cure, and / will say
that two bottles will do the work as it did
for me and I was so bad that l could not
walk without falling fat and have not had
any trouble for three months and feel as
well as ever.
Very Respect,
II. r. PATTERSON,
420 Broadway, New York.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

The Brattleboro Democrats cele-
brated the national victory last Mon
day evening with torch light pro-
cession, fire works and music. Rut-
land and Burlington also held big
celebrations.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

John Slash 'em-up Clarkson is fair
ly mad over the result. He is re-
ported as follows:
"The result is not personal de-
feat of President Harrison, nor really
of the party. 1t is protection de-
feat, reputation of high tariff, a
Republican reverse in a field where it
put aside all the nobler issues and
staked everything on the economic
and mercenary ISSUE"
He characterizes Tammany Hall as
the incarnation of partisanship, and
after criticising severely the Repub-
lican party, for not enforcing its rights
in the South, concludes thus: SIN
that day of new energy the Republi-
can party will not allow a million OF
its voters to be disfranchised because
they are its members, and it will draw
its line openly and boldly and free
itself alike from the Carnegies, Fricks
and others who betrayed protection
to gain cheap labor, and from all
others wearing its name for purposes
of their own gain
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

One of the things certain to be
brought about by the next Congress
is the admission of Utah, Arizona
and New Mexico to statehood. This
will add to the senate six Democratic
members.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
One Consolation.
Hardwick Gazette:

One thing above all others that
reconciles us to the election of Cleve-
land is the knowledge that G. G.
Benedict. collector of customs for the
district of Vermont, will be summar-
lily bounced. The event may also
possibly have some bearing on Col.
Forbes sugaring next spring.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Forces that utterly subjugate and
enslave the mind of mediocrity some
times rouse to thought and action the
great soul" says Ingersoll, writing about
Ernest Renan in The North American
Review,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

It's pretty bad defeat that's GER
tain, but as it begun in Vermont and
rounded up in Chicago, that is chock
full of Vermonters, our state bosses
and their postmaster cliques ought to
stand up and take the medicine like
little men.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

The Montpelier correspondent of
the Hardwick Gazette prefaced his
last weeks letter with the following !:
'sThe past week has been rather a
dreary one for me. Hardly brother
statesman in town, and l have been
revolving from my boarding house to
the picture gallery of our local down
town Hoffman House, thence up
town by gradual progression and with
frequent short calls at more places of
interest, until the rapid and bizarre
precincts of South Main street are
attained. Some of the places of en-
tertainment on this route are very
reserche, or thereabouts, and are
largely patronized by our gilded
youth. Also by others who are mere
ly whitewashed. On the business
counters are free lunches for visitors,
consisting of cloves, mustard, raw
coffee and scraps, and in the most
elite resorts, pretzels and oyster
crackers. On the walls may frequent
ly be observed artistic and appropriate
notices like 'Feed My Lambs No
mixed drinks sold,' 'What is Home
without Baby and three foreign
ers for quarter. ] have got so !
would like to live here, except when
it is time to get up in the morning.
Then l feel of my distressed hair and
want to die here"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
OUTH LONDONDERRY VT, FRIDAY MORNING NOV 49, 1892

The final election returns place
Kansas in the Weaver column and
makes Ohio and California so close
that the official count will be required
to determine the result.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

The Legislature has passed the
school bill embracing the town system
and it has received the signature of
the governor. 1t also passed the bill
appropriating 5000 for a Worlds
fair building. The Senate promptly
killed the women's suffrage bill. In
the contested election case from
Danville the sitting member, Davis,
was allowed to retain his seat.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Speaking of the suicide of man be-
cause he had been slandered in a news
paper, a writer remarks, "It was deed
which but marks the ending to another
chapter in the damnable history of per-
sonal journalism
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

If the rabbits of Australia were to be
exterminated the price of felt hats
would rise at once. In New South
Wales in one year as many as s5, $50, 900
rabbit skins have been shipped to Eng
land
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

For lame back there is nothing better
than to saturate flannel cloth with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bind it on
the affected parts. Try it and you will
be surprised at the prompt relief it affords
The same treatment will cure rheumatism.
For sale by
Goddard & Gibson, Londonderry.
Richardson & Leonard, Londonderry
and Peru.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Gov. Fuller has appointed lawyer
Martin of Brattleboro tax commits
sioner, and Geo. W. Pierce. the
asylum farmer, member of the
Board of Agriculture.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
We Have Levi Left.

IF our Democratic brethren are wise
and heed the lesson well, it means a
long lease of office. If on the other
hand they think themselves masters in
stead Of servants they will go where
the Republicans have gone at an early
day. Well, if everything else is gone
we have Levi left all to ourselves.
That is some consolation.
DEMOCRAT.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18


J. w. Shanks, formerly roadmastel
of the New London division of the G.
V. r., has been appointed general road.
master of the Central and all its divis.
ions.
w. F. Burns, carpenter, of Rut.
land, fell distance of 20 feet Tues
day forenoon from a staging attached
to house on which he was olking
He fell over backward upon pile o.
stones. Three of his ribs wert
broken, and it was thought that hi
was injured internally.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

A Vermont League for good roads
was organized the other day with
Gov. Fuller as President.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
DEATHS.

In Londonderry, Nov. IA, Amaziah
Holland Howard, aged So.
In Goodelville (Jamaica) Nov. IL,
Mrs. Herbert Stewart, aged Is.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

The Burlington Clipper fayors put
ting state convicts at work upon the
roads.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

A good steel bowed, nickle plated
cork nose eye glass for 80 cents, at
CHAs. A. TRIP & Co., Jewellers,
Brattleboro, VT
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Do not pin people down and tell them
with the air of one who has discovered
great truth something they have
known all their lives.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
The St. Johnsbury Republican tells

the following story:
At Cavendish Falls, on Black
River, a vertical cliff is known as
Lovers Leap. It's poor town that
has not one such feature in this
country. A man actually went over
this Vermont leap along in the '40s.
He did not mean to, and compan-
ion crept to the edge and looked over,
expecting to see him dashed to pieces
below. The man was crawling out
of the river.
"Hello," shouted his friend. "Are
you hurt much p
81 amt hurt much, was the answer,
''but I'll be darned if l haven't lost
my jackknife."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Official vote of Vermont at presi-
dental election is: Republican, 49,
992; democratic, 16,325 prohibition,
1924 populist, 43; scattering, 6.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

Copies ofthis paper can be obtained
at Carpenters Netos Rooms an Brat
tlebOrO.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

No Other Sarsaparilla has the merit
by which Hoods Sarsaparilla has won
snch a firm hold upon the confidence of
the people.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

The President has appointed Will
liam Potter of Pennsylvania to be
minister to Italy; David P. Thomp-
son of Oregon to be minister to Tur-
key, and Edward G. Little of Kan
sas to be agent and consul to Cairo,
Egypt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
Letters from the People
What Beat Harrison.

Since 1855 or before the war and
inflated currency real estate has depre-
ciated until it sells today for one quar-
ter to one half the price at that time.
In all these years we have been under
the protective tariff system. Today
manufacturing and commercial busi-
ness is booming, prices for labor have
been advanced to twice as much as in
1855. The farmer has been steadily
growing poorer in the constant decline
in land value and it has cost him twice
as much to run his farm with hired
help. The farmer is ready to try
something that 'protects" his interests
as well as the manufacturer. Gentle
men of the jury, this is what beat Ben
jamin Harrison Nov. Sth, and have
never voted anything but the Repub-
lican ticket either.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
PRICE THREE CENTS.
NOVEMBER.
BY CELIA NJ. REYNOLDS.

BY CELIA NJ. REYNOLDS.
The last days of autumn have come
Once again, the last glowing ember
OF flaming October has died,
And its ashes blown into November.
The labor of harvest is past,
Begun in the balmy September;
The best of its meats and its fruits
Slowed away for the feast of Novem
ber
The skies have grown grey with the
year;
The last of the twelve months, December,
Approaches with shivering steps
Through the chill, sloppy ways of No
vember.
The month of Thanksgiving is here,
The time when the wanderers remember
The comforts of home, and thank God
For the happy return of November.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
-THE-
F|LONDONDERRYasSIFTER.I Il
HENRY M. SHANKs, PUBLISHER.

Terms, $l.OO Year, Strictly in
advance. Persons outside of Windham
County who receive the paper in single
wrappers must send 10 cents in addition
to pay for wrappers and postage.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

advertising from
the visited that the
experiment entirely satisfactory to them
Were you that NUMBER reader?
trial from that particularly solicit and respect
hand when such trial would be oppor
tune and lies better
acquaintance.
We hope to hear from you before the advent of 1898
c. ]. HUBBARD
Matchmaker and Jeweler.
the world who is forever her bed
person sending will receive valuable
present.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

G. G. SMITH,
Dear Sir: would like to speak a
good word for your Rheumatic Cure.
After suffering five years with muscular
rheumatism l took one bottle of your
medicine and have not had rheumatism
since. That was last October.
Yours Respectfully,
Mrs. D. F. DAVIS.
Londonderry, May 26, 1892.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
FARMER.
Honor to the Women suffrag,sts.

All honor to the representatives who
followed the dictates of their consciences
and voted for right of women who are
taxed to vote in our municipal elections.
The question is not whether these
women are demanding this privilege.
We, as gentleman, and true human
beings should be the quicker to grant
them this unquestioned right from the
fact that they are not with loud, brazen
voice, clamoring for this undoubted
right.
1t is curious to note how that almost
the same persons voted for the town
system of schools as voted to give
women a share of their rights. In the
Legislature, as elsewhere, there are
always two classes, the class of reform,
and the class of drag-behind. The
class who honestly have the interests of
the community at heart and the class
who are forever figuring how such or
such way of voting will affect their
chances for election to some petty Office
at home. X.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
Clear Away the Old Trash.

Lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels each
Day. In order to be healthy this is necessay
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18

ss-Entered at the Post-ofice at So. London
as second class matter.