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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
LEARNED lAeoRERs.
Professions represented Among the
Members Of u Railroad Gang.

Professions represented Among the
Members of u Railroad Gang.
Superintendent Elliot Holbrook, of the
Baltimore and Ohio road, in the course
of an interesting chat said he did not
believe any road In the country could
turn up, like the Baltimore and Ohio. a
section gang with county coroner, a
doctor of divinity, an ex-member of the
legislature and an emergency physician
He has been out along the line for a
week and tells a story about an expert
ence he had while his car was lying at
Sand Patch night or two ago. The
foreman Of the gang came up to him
and said:
"There is more talent to the square
inch in the gang on the fur side of that
mountain than have met with since |
was at the last state convention"
Mr.. Holbrook asked the man what he
meant, and the foreman continued
81 was coming up the hill from work
with my gang bit ago, and when a few
rods below Prisons we found the body
of man lying beside the track. His
body was yet warm, and said, Wish |
had doctor here said half to my
self.
"I guess can answer in a pinch.
said one of the men in the gang.
"What do you know about such
thingsT l asked with some show Of con-
tempt.
"Oh, took term in tho old Jeffer-
son Medical college years ago, but didn't
take to practice and quit All this time
he had been rummaging the body. and
in minute said, He's dead
"Well, I'll leave two or three Of you
here to watch the body while | get a
coroner or squire to hold an inquest,
said l. The rest of you can come with
me-
90 guess as I'm coroner of the county
I'll do said another mud covered citi-
| zen.
"'Your said to him.
"'Oh, yes; was elected last fall
"Well, 60 ahead He took six of the
gang and held an inquest and returned
a verdict of accidental death.
"'Well, that's done; put him in the
hand car and we'll take him up and gel
a coffin and a preacher and bury him.
said to the men.
"'What's the use? said a man of the
gang who hadn't said word till now
4 am a minister and always have a Bi
BILE with me. Let's hold the services
right here. Let the others dig grave
up there under that big hemlock, ant
We'll bury him without further trouble.
Acting on his suggestion the grave
was soon dug, the body carried to it
side, and then the minister took hold
He read chapter, gave out hymn, al
he called it, which the men sung, ant
then he delivered one of the most feelir
and Appropriated funeral sermons evel
heard. 1t was out of sight, and nearly
every one of US was purity moist before
he quit There wasn't nothin in it a
all resemblin my church, but it cauph
me, cause it was simple, and va
powerful as the dynamite we had beef
using all day.
"Like the doctor, the Gospel fellow
had had his innings in school anc
seminary, but scrape had downed him
and he was unbeknownst to himsel
doing really big now. What struck M
all of a heap was the fact that |, VIII
was bossin the gang, could only 'toucl
the PEN to make my signature on tn
payrolls, and all the fellows under m
were either M. DIS, D. DIS or d. BIS
Great country Pittsburg Post
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

The remedy which remains to Mr.
Gladstone in case the house of lords re
fuses to pass his Irish home rule bill
after it has been accepted by the com.
mons is to prepare list of a large num-
Der of new peers who are Liberal home
rulers aud recommend their creation by
the queen. There is not lacking prece-
dent, both in English and French his.
tory, for the creation by a prime minis.
ter of peers for political purposes. By
this means Gladstone would get ma
jority for his own party in the house Of
lords. Justin Mccarthy thinks, how
ever, that rather than see themselves
swamped by new Liberal peers in this
way the present house of lords will shut
their eyes and gulp down Gladstone's
home rule bill when it comes up at the
next session of parliament.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
Down on Dogs.

An aged lady who died recently in a
Connecticut town left the income of
100000 to be used in house painting.
All who applied to have their houses
painted should have it done free, pro-
vided they could prove they had not
kept dog in two years and make oath
that they will not keep one in future.
The will adds, mo habit has a more
deadly hold on mankind than that of
dog keeping, which is itself proof that
it ought to be crushed out"
The story is so good that it ought to
be true if it is not. But even if it is
true the old lady's heirs will probably
break the will on the ground that the
testatrix was crazy. But was she SO
crazy? One easily understands how she
arrived step by step in her mind at the
conclusion that dogs should be abolished
She was lone woman, living in city
fiat, or in a house with two or three
families, or in boarding house. She
had suffered torture from the feas, the
smells, the dog hairs scattered about
promiscnously b., the dirty little beasts
kept there by women who have nothing
useful to do. At least, if they have any
thing useful to do they neglect it and
spend their time over the dogs. The
old lady had witnessed the spectacle of
a large woman leading very small
sick dog about the streets with string
She had seen these ladies hold the beasts
face up against their own and heard
them exclaim rapturously, "Kiss your
mother, Tiny" Then she got sick, and
just went off and made that will.
She crazy? She was the sanest woman
of her time.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
Made Up Their Quarrel.

A hardware store ON Main street,
Manayunk, is the headquarters of sew
eral old citizens, who congregate daily
to gossip politics, ancient history, and
tell stories of their individual trials and
troubles before they retired from active
business life Jokes and tricks, inno-
cent and harmful, are constantly prac-
ticed ON each other, much to the amuse-
ment of the purchasers of nails, paint
and putty. About thirty years ago Ben
Davis and joe Winpenny differed over
a statement made by the latter. Davis,
who doubted the story, requested Win
penny to put it in writing before he
would believe the yarn. Winpenny,
who was angry that his veracity could
be questioned by any present, resented
the charge and left the store, with vow
never to speak to Davis until he asked
his pardon. Yesterday Davis relented
after the long space of time and they
shook hands over the wide chasm. Tears
were in the eyes of the old vets present
at the reunion. Philadelphia Record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
Tho Potato Crop.

According 20 the report of the Stats
tician at Washington, the acreage de-
voted to potato is returned at 94.2 per
cent. of the large area of last year. In
the south, where the breadth of cotton
has been shortened, considerable in
crease in the area devoted to this crop
has been made, but in the New England
and western states, where the largest
Weld is obtained and the bulk of the
crop is grown. there is considerable
decrease.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 9, 1892.
beautiful Trees.

In parts of the country where rain has
been abundant this summer the trees
have been unusually beautiful. Their
foliage has been heavy and Of rich,
dark green hue that is striking and I'M
common. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who
passed his eighty-third birthday Aug. 30.
takes long drives every day. He says that
his principal study during these drives is
trees. He watches them as one might
watch the opening of a flower, and notes
the differences in those he passes during
his drives. He observes that the elms
about Boston are particularly fine. He
has found one that measures sixteen feet
around. These noble elms are charac-
teristio growth of the New England
states, and can hardly be matched else
where.
But there are trees as fine of other
varieties, one or more kinds for each
portion of the Union. The varieties pc
culiarly adapted to soil and climate in
particular locality ought to be fos-
tered as the New England people foster
their elms. One of the first duties of
the municipal authorities when a new
town is laid out in the west should DO
to plant trees along the streets. In a
few years they will be an attraction
that will add so per cent, to the value
Of the property. The pioneers who
planted fruit trees at the early settle
ment of Kansas were laughed at by
sone of the chumps who had not their
enterprise. But now the tree planters
I are eating the fruit from their own
trees, while the old chumps 20 without
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
How Not TO Begin.

II you want to write newspaper let
ter about the progress of agriculture in
the United States DO not begin it, ut is
said that he who makes two blades of
grass grow where one grew before is the
benefactor of the human race" That
old chestnut was worn out about the
time of the American Revolution. 1t
never was much of a saying anyhow.
If you want to report a horse race, do
not begin by quoting that Bible passage
about the strength of warehouses;
noshils being terrible. Everybody
knows it now Neither begin by saying
that the horse was known in Bible times
AMI from the most ancient period of
history. Nobody cares a fig whether he
was known or not, or when he did or
did not begin to be talked about. Do
not commerce either to give us any of
those old gag anecdotes about the Ara
bans love for his horse. We don't want
to hear them.
A distinguished gentleman lately
wrote magazine paper on the present
status of higher education in the south.
Those who labored through the pages to
find out what higher education in the
south was like at present found that
six or eight pages of the thing were
taken up with describing education in
the south before the war. Who but an
antiquary cares brass pin about what
education in the south or north was like
before the war? The living uesent is
what we want now in everyt.,.,,u "a, Only
where the past will serve us Of today
either as an awful warning or as good
example have we time to read anything
about it.
And whatever you have to write about.
don't lug in anything about the silvery
moonlight sl.iinmering upon the waters,
or the green fields, or the ruins of an
old cheese factory. We had enough of
that century ago. Never talk of golden
sunlight, or fleecy clouds piled high, or
the voice of the murmuring wind
among the leafy trees. We've had
enough of that too. Don't begin with
any hackneyed quotation to launch your
self off with under any circumstance.
You will so off anyhow. Plunge direct
ly into your theme, the more abruptly
the better. Say at once that No. 2 red
wheat is eighty cents bushel and then
omit
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
Alive While We Do Live.

Why not live forever? asks DR.. NJ
Maurice at the beginning of a learned
paper IN the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Well, who wants to live forever? Eighty
or hundred years of taxpaying, brass
bands, corns and presidential elections
is enough to satisfy the most ardent ad-
mirer of life on this planet that there is
not much in it.
A far more reasonable question than
that asked by DR.. Maurice would be,
Why not be well while VIC do live? There
are thousand reasons why man can.
not live forever and ought not to if he
could, but there is no satisfactory an
swer to the question why he should not
have perfect health while he is alive.
The persistent cold taking of the race,
toothache, rheumatism, consumption and
neuralgia are all wrong-so many life
sucking excrescences that have grown
up around the human body and hurry it
to an untimely death after an agony of
suffering INDISPENSABLE. Disease is GER
tainly wrong and unnatural. Nature
never meant it, and there is no sense in it.
The remedies prescribed for disease
grow more numerous year by year. So
do the diseases. So far as we can judge,
the human race, although life is longer
on the average, suffers more physically
than it did athousand years ago. Where
is the science which shall show us how
to live all over while we do live, and not
keep dying a little at time for half a
century?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

The editor of Scribner's Magazine
thinks the next change in our political
machinery will be the exclusion of the
"noisy crowd in the galleries" from the
great nominating conventions. Then
the sober-that is to say, sober minded
delegates who go in for principle as
against enthusiasm in politics will be
able to hear themselves think and fol-
low out their best judgment. Not SO,
Mr.. Editor 1t is all very well for a
magazine editor in his quiet, coy sane
tum to feel his head swim when he con-
templates that crowd, but we don't wan
it abolished. Political conventions ana
all other conventions want the greatest
possible airing. If mans Judgment
and principles won't stand the test of
hurrahs that raise the roof, they are not
good for much. The line of course
must be drawn between enthusiasm and
rowdyism, but the enthusiasm must not
be repressed We have little enough of
it left in this age of exhaustion and toll.
And besides, as the editor himself ad-
mits, the shouting for a candidate does
not mean his nomination.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

The Methodist National university, at
Washington, which is to rival the great
Roman Catholic university there, will
be coeducational, for the Methodists
never go back ON women in the matter
of getting schooling. Mrs. John A.
Logan has undertaken the task of rails
ing a million dollar endowment for
the women students end of the estab-
ment. There is no doubt but she will
succeed in her undertaking. Rich Meth
odist ladies in this country can subscribe
the whole amount.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
One of the strangest things about the

One of the strangest things about the
planet Mars is the frequent and sudden
changes of color that are manifest upon
its disk. Recently while Professor Pick
ering was examining it through his tel
escope just before sunrise the snowy re-
gion about the planets south pole was
brilliant green color. After sunrise this
part became bright yellow, while the
rest of the disk changed to orange.
Later the orange suddenly became a
brilliant green. Last year upon one
portion of this mysterious planet which
was green yellow spot appeared eleven
days before the spring equinox. The
spot enlarged till it covered a great
portion of the disk. This season, seven
teen days before the spring equinox, the
yellow spot appeared again upon the
green surface.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

The census shows that there are near .
81, 800, 900 school children in the United
States-that is, persons from five &c
twenty-one years of age, OF the youths
included in the ages named little more
than one-eighth are colored. Our school
population in this young country there
fore constitutes more than third of the
total inhabitants. But they are not
nearly all in school.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

In some of the large cities the reform.
ers are congratulating themselves that
the population of certain "slum wards
has not increased materially in twenty
years. The reason probably is that the
tenement houses were as full as they
could hold twenty years ago and have
no room for any more people.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
Put away your little russell shoes.

A newspaper correspondent in New
York writes that every dry goods house
of importance in that city now has a
woman buyer in Europe, and some en-
ploy three or four. The place of foreign
buyer Is considered the most enviable in
the dry goods business.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

Probably the church that has changed
pastors most seldom since the country
was first settled is the First Parish Uni
tartan church in Gloucester, Mass. 1t
was founded in 1912, and in the two and
half centuries since then it has only
had sixteen pastors. This is an average
service for each minister of nearly six
teen years.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
Tie Genuine Merit

Of Hoods Sarsaparilla wins friends
wher ever it is fairly and honestly tried.
Its proprietors are highly gralified at the
letters which come entirely unsolicited
from men and women in the learned pro-
fessions warmly commencing Hoods
Sarsparilla for what it has done for them.
Hoods Pills cure liver ills, jaun-
dice, biliousness, sick headache, constipa-
tion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

In Milford, Mass, it is claimed that
improvements have been made in the
storage battery street car system which
make this kind of electric car cheaper
than horse cars. This news will be
welcomed in cities where the overhead
trolley system is not practicable. One
of the improvements made consists in
an arrangement enabling the car to run
farther without change or recharging
of batteries.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
The Worlds HYMNS

1t appears that there have been writ
ten altogether no less than 100000 Chris
tian hymns. Of these "Julian's Die
tionary of Hymnology" makes mention
of 100000 Mr.. Julian is of opinion that
Charles Wesley is the hymn writer of
the ages, though this would be disputed
by Protestant Germans no doubt. They
would place Martin Luther at the head
of hymn writers. Luther gave to the
world thirty-seven sacred songs, of
which the noblest is that grand rolling
rhythm, "Eine feste Burg list unser
Gott," which Frederick the Great said
was "God Almighty's grenadier march"
Of the 10000 hymns in the Julian die
tionary nobody will be surprised to
learn that $500 begin with "Oh" and
100 with "And." 1t was not from the
Established church in England that
the most inspiring and musical Prot
estant hymns came. The credit be-
longs to the comeouters. the Methodists.
Dissenters, etc such men as Isaac
Watts, the Wesleys and Dr. Doddridge.
Charles Wesley alone wrote $500.
James Edmeston, an architect, wrote
1000. Watts 400 and Charlotte Elliott
$50. Henry Francis Lyte wrote 10
hymns, among them the beautiful one
beginning "Abide with me-"
What was once considered deeply de-
votional and poetic would not always
be the correct thing in the hymnology
Of our time. For instance, an old YER
sion of part of the musical service for
Palm Sunday says:
Be thou, o Lord, the Rider,
And we the little ass;
That TO Gods holy city
Together we may pass.
Herrick wrote "Litany to the Holy
Spirit" in which were these stanzas:
When the artless doctor sees
No one hope. but of his fees,
And his skill runs on the lees,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
When his potion and his pill,
His. or none, or little skill,
Meet for nothing but to kill,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

The status Of civil service reform in
Canada may be guessed from the fact
that the Intercolonial railway, which is
run by the government, is operated ut
an annual loss of 100000. 1t is said
openly that this loss is due to politics in
the roads management. The Dominion
government is now negotiating with tho
Canadian Pacific road to take the Inter
colonial off ITS hands, thus relieving it
Of its white elephant.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

New York StOIe'
Is Selling
Workmen's Dinner Pals
large size, l5c
10 qt. flaring pals, 12c
10 at. dish pans, lie
Tin Cups, &c each,.
Sheet Iron dripping pans
large size, Zoe
Fancy covered dust pans,
nicely decorated. 10c
Tin Chamber pail, fine quail
ty, only 25c.
Fancy engraved Tumblers, &c
Good Tumblers, &c
Decorated 10 pieces Toilet
sets, only $500.
Jelly tumblers, with tin caps,
Sc, glass sauce or berry sets,
6 small and l large, only 2Cc
Veneer Chair seats, Sc each,
AT Sc. aides Jers ely
Vests worth Zoe, at SSc La
dies calico wrappers, At SOC
aides shirt waists, at 4Sc
aides muslin night gowns,
at 25c Ladies muslin drawers
at 25c boys knee pants, at 90
Indigo. blue prints, white strl-
ped lawn and chi'dren's gauze
vests.
In our grocery department
we have these brands of -four
White Lion, Pillsbury's Best,
Kin" of the West and White
Foom. We sell only the best
quality of -four and at lower
prices than any other house.
We have the greatest bar
gain in Tea that was ever of
fered, here it is:
10 Chests Fine Japan Tea
in one pound packages, quail
ty guaranteed, only Zoe a 10.
Canned peaches, l3c. Sal
mon Zoe, tomatoes or corn &c.
Terms Cash, Only.
! BLACKMER'S
| New York Store,
Manchester Depot, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

The watermelon crop of Georgia
brought to the state 100000 this sea-
son. One understands now why the
Atlanta Constitution bursts into pteans
of poetry whose refrain is. 1.-THE coun-
try's safe"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09
City and Country Markets.

Mr.. Citiman-We are getting perfect
butter now. Buy it of farmer who
comes into the city twice week. pre-
sumo you have good butter right along.
Mr. Suburb-First rate.
make it YOURSELF"
mo; buy it in the city and carry it
home. New York Weekly.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

The news from Europe will no doubt
seriously affect the watermelon trade.
1t is pity, too, for this is the greatest
watermelon year on record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

The Paris undertakes have formed
great combine, and people who die there
cannot be buried on any terms unless
they consent to pay syndicate prices.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

Labor should rule capital, but the
laborer has no more right to rule the
capitalist than the capitalist has to rule
The laboref.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

Slipping half a winegla,s of wafer is
declared 10 have raised a mans pul e
from 76 10 over 100 beats.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

A quarryman at West Rutland, w.
foil a distance Of sixty feet to the DOT
.om Of a quarry, but. strange to say no
ZONES were broken.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-09-09

An unusual number of balloon casu-
alties are to be added to the accident
record of this unlucky year. There
were two in one day lately.