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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
Skoal to tho Northmeni
Deep drinks the warriors soul,
Skoal for the Northland, skoAll

NhoAA Aoh ehc ANoAthAohus nhooN
The warrior soul apparently drinks as
deep as it ever did, IL the performances
of the Norsemen who conveyed tho vi
king ship from its native shores to New
York are to be taken as a sample. In
New York city the Viking crew were
honored only less than Veragua and Eu-
laia had been. Their warrior souls
drank as deep as they liked, and nobody
minded.
1t was different in Brooklyn. They
visited that dreadful town to attend
banquet given in their honor by Brook
lyn Norwegians and few Swedes. The
fierce Vikings were as mild as doves till
at 3 o'clock in the morning they started
to go back to New York. They had
drunk an awful lot of SHOALS. They felt
brave and tuneful and went through
the streets singing whatever the Nor
wegian equivalent is of eve Won't Go
Home Till Morning." Some Brooklyn
policemen whose hearts are as wood ar
rested them and dumped them into the
station house.
In vain they protested that they were
Vikings fierce who could eat up three
policemen apiece. They had to march
to prison cells as if they had been mere
tame menials Of trade. The police jus
tice was as wooden hearted as the police
men themselves. He declared the vi
kings fierce shouldn't set foot out OF
Brooklyn under week and two days,
when it would please his common nine
teenth century soul to try their cases.
They were engaged to set sail for Chi
cago in six days. Instead of whacking
the justice over the head with their
mailed fists and striding majestically out
of that they sat tamely down under the
rule Of the laws minions. Times are not
as they once were.
But there are some $4,000 Scandina-
VANS in Brooklyn. The white males
among them have votes. If this outrage
to the fierce Vikings were permitted to
go on, those votes would be dead sure
for t'other party. The mayor interceded
with the justice, the justice agreed to
try the cases Immediately, and the au-
horities apologized handsomely to the
GO vikings and all went off like the
ID DANES pig which began to jump over
l..o stile.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
TRICKS AT MONTE CARLO.
How the Great Gambling Concern Keep'
Men From WINNING. Largo Sumk.


How the Great Gambling Concern Keeps
Men From Winning Large Sums.
A typical row vt the casino comes In
the nick Of time rs postscript to the
yearly balance published by the keepers
of the notorious gambling den-some-
thing like es dividend for every eco
share-and take it as the earliest oppor-
tunity of exhibiting few of the ways
of the place. This h the official version
Of the row and its cause: Two players
had been caught experimenting with
success in a simple and ingenious way of
giving the chance chance" While
one of them was punting 50-franc notes
on squares or sixes," the other, stand
ing right behind the paying croapiers,
had contrived to slip two or three 1000
franc notes underneath the 50-franc one
each time the ball had favored his con.
federates stake. The croupiers, busy
paying and scooping the stakes, did not
notice the dodge at first, but feeling that
there was something WI ong established
a watch, with the result that the culprits
were caught in the act. AS a matter of
course payment was refused, words and
blows ensued, and with the aid of the
chuckers out the men were elected and
arrested
Well, anybody who knows the ms and
outs Of the place will take this version
with several grains of salt. That Monte
Carlo swarms with unprincipled ruffians
nobody will deny, but the organization
of the partie precludcs all possibility of
such childish tricks as the one above.
What with eight croupiers at every
table, the chef de partie, the inspectors,
the detectives and the losing players,
there are too many eyes on each stake to
admit even its probability. The cue of
the situation is in the word feeling, and
what wish to imply here in all earnest
is that nobody connected with the adj
minstration of the casino can admit a
suggestion of heavy gains on the punt
er's side-thay know better. Old Blanc,
the founder of the place, used to say, II
will give million to anybody who will
prove that he can win money at roulette
with certainty" and there is good deal
more in this saying than "a reference to
the calcul des probabilities.
The fact is that nobody is allowed to
win largely, and that in cases of extraor-
binary luck the administration knows
what precautions to take. First of all,
the casino being in way Il club, a card
of admittance is necessary. This card
must be renewed every day and may be
refused to an unpleasant punter without
giving him any reasons for it. But there
are other ways of getting rid of the OBJ
stinate winners. There is a regular
squad of agents provocateurs, whose
mode of operations is very simple. They
pick quarrel over a stake with the man
pointed out to them, and as they are moi
in the least particular about epithets OF
blows, whether taken or given, a row be
gins, smiling inspector comes up with
re endorsements, invites you politely tc
come with him and gets You out of the
precincts of the place. There he ex
plains that although he has no doubt
you were in the right the rule Of the
place is not to readmit those who have
been the cause of rowland there yor
are.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
scientific irrigation.

In o beautifully illustrated paper In
The Popular Science Monthly Mr.. Charles
Howard Shinn gives much information
about tho stupendous change which is
quietly Transforming more than half the
area Of the United States from arid plain
and valley to blooming farms and Or
chards. Theirrigation question brought
abouta new set Of laws-laws which had
no precedent of legislation to build on.
There is great confusion in the matter
today. II has not yet been settled wheth
tr it is best to leave irrigation to private
corporations, to let the individual states
control 1t, or whether 1t is too big q
situation for either private companies
or individual states to cope with, and
hence matter for the general govern
ment itself to close in on and regulate.
Mr.. Shinn himself has no doubt on the
point. He says that any plan which
should put water distribution within
the power of the separate states would
be dangerous. "Only the federal gov
eminent can protect the sources of water
supply, utilize, reservoir and distribute
that supply and unite water and land in
an indissoluble marriage bond"
Mr.. Shinn thinks that if ever the bal
ance of power in this republic shifts
from the Mississippi valley to west of
the Rockies irrigation will be the cause
of it, transferring the leadership from
'the man Of the corn lands to the man
of the fruit lands" California is the
state that thus far stands at the head in
showing what immense crops can be
produced through irrigation, and her
laws are therefore to be taken somewhat
as models for those of other states. It
was the old gold miners who taught the
agriculturist to irrigate, and to them it
is owing that California is at the head
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
The Prosecution.

What is the duty of the state in legal
trial? The prosecutor is appointed for the
state to seethat no criminal escapes the
Just penalty of the law. tits undoubtedly
the duty of the prosecution to convict
the accused if he is guilty, and to prove
HIM guilty if he really is so. But appar-
entity the legal methods of criminal juris-
prudence have degenerated into some
thing very different.
1t is well known principle of law
that every accused is to be considered in
nocent until he has been proved guilty.
ln 80 cases out of 100 here in America in
our time the attorney for the state prac-
tically reverses this principle, and in all
be says and does assumes that the pris-
oner Is guilty until he is proved inno-
cent. Justice, mercy and common sense
alike declare that the state has no inter-
est in convicting a prisoner. Its func-
ton is simply to see that justice is done.
IN accused is innocent, it is far more
. states business to clear that accused
than to try to convict him. But in the
practical operation of our law the prose-
cutor evidently takes it for granted that
his sole business is to convict the prison
er; that, too, whether he is guilty or in
nocent. The courtroom becomes simply a
stage for the prosecutor to show his elo-
4aence and trickery in gaining his case
and getting glory for himself, irrespective
Of whether the accused is guilty. That is
apparently side issue. When the pros
ecution becomes persecution, and that
fendish persecution, as it does too often
at the present day, it is time for a
change,
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she wore upon her little finger.

she wore upon her little finger
do you want pledge Of pardon for
your holiness" she said; "here it is. +"
And putting her whole soul into last,
playful smile she added: ut is tails
man that will aid you In returning to
the right path, my dear brigand. Re-
member that should prefer to see You
dead rather than unfaithful or q felon."
At these words, lightly uttered, the
masked man showed extraordinary emo
ton. Then, with reverence this time,
he kissed the lady's hand and disap-
peared.
When she entered the house, she found
the duke and Dom Maroufot at the chess
table. The duke was SO absorbed that
he did not even turn his head as she came
into the room. She thought that really
she was in the presence of consummate
actor.
She leaned over his shoulder as he wa
moving knight and suddenly turned
palette duke had no ring ON his finger
The poor marquise passed restless
night.
Toward morning she had scarcely
closed her eyes when she was awakened
by the sound of gunshots. followed by
the noise Of galloping horses.
The duke at the head Of his dragons
was returning TO the chateau. lie had
alightcd and was taking off his pistols
when the marquise appeared.
"It's all over" he called out to her
II brought down Gillou with single
shot. We had hardly got outside the
park gate before the idiot came to MS
He threw himself between our horses
legs, so, to speak. And for fear that
might not recognize him he cried out
I am Gillou! Kill mer
HE kneeled down 10 steps from me
When he saw me aim my pistol at him
he raised his hand in the air and held W
something brilliant; then he cried out
again, but l don't know what he said
for the report of my pistol drowned hi
voice.
HE fell, and one Of my men picked
up the brilliant thing he held in his hand
If you want it, here it is. 1t shall b,
your part of the booty. But there is ;
little blood on it"
The duke handed beautiful diamond
to the marquise. Recognizing her ring
she turned deathly pale, and suddenl.
she read clearly in her heart. She hat
never loved the duke, and now she de
tested him.-From the French.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

Quarrels about stakes arc always plen.
tiful at Monte Carlo, and very often
they are genuine. In some cases, espe-
cially when the stakes are small and ON
single chances, the administration pays
both claimants and keepsan eye on them
if unknown, for there is a whole army
of ruined gamblers hanging round the
place, known to everybody h it, and ex-
ercising the profession OF SO called "or-
phan pickers" (cueilleurs q orphelins).
An "orphan' is a stake left by inexperi-
enced noviees about minute hnger than
1t ought to be and kidnapped in the
twinkling of an eye by a cueilleur who
has spotted his man. Croupiers and in
spectors look with q benevolent eye on
those green baize pirates and generally
side with them.-Cor. st, James Gazette.
Suicide Time.
An eastern daily records the suicide
Of nine persons in one day within ra-
dius of u few hundred miles All were
men, and thrceof taeia killed themselves
because they had embezzled funds in
trusted to their care in business.
1t has been observed that most of the
suicides occur in tho hottest season of
the year, when mems brains are broiled
and their blood frenzied with the heat.
Many Of those who thus put themselves
ont of the world are leading members of
society and OF church in their respec-
tive neighborhoods. 1t is evident that
Christianity had no hold ON their minds,
or they would not have dared to take
away the lives that had been given them
| to make wise use of.
In the old Greek mythology it was
taught that suicides wandered on the
shores of the river Styx 800 years before
| they were allowed to cross. They fit
ted hither and thither, homesick shades
belonging neither to this world nor the
next. 1t is the oriental belief that the
man who kills himself must hover dis
| consulate about the scene of his eartl
lie till the natural term of his existence
here expires. 1t certainly seems that il
there is any hereafter the individual
who cowardly shuffles ont before he has
done his work will have to undergo
some dread purgation ere he can joir
the spirits that departed peacefully wher
their time was up. If one has done
wrong on earth, this earta is the plac,
to right it. If one has been wretchedl,
unhappy, unsuccessful and disappointed
in his cherished earthly hopes, this world
not the next, is the place for one to buckl
ON his armor valiantly and fight straigh
through all troubles. Every determined
soul can DO it.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
Petition for DIVORCE.

State of Vermont, Windham Co, Court Sep
TENDER Term, 1893.
William F, starkey, The libellant, William F.
VS. Starkey in the above en-
Adie Starkey titled cause having this
day filed in the oflce of the Clerk of the Wind.
ham County Court his libel for a divorce, return
able at the term of said Court next to be holden
at Newfane within and for said Windham
County on the second Tuesday of September A.
n. 1888, setting forth that he was lawfully mar
ried to the said libeee, his residence within this
County, and praying that divorce be granted
him from the said libellee, Adie Starkey, by rea-
son of her wilful desertion of him the said IL
bellant. And it being made to appear that the
said Iiheee is now II sitent without the State of
Vermont so that the ordinary process of this
Court cannot be served Upol her, it is therefore
ordered that the said libelant give notice to the
said libellee of the endency of his said libel
and the term of court to which the same is re-
turnab,e, by publsh The substance of his
said libel together with this order for three
weeks successfully in the LONDONDERRY SITTER
newspaper printed at Londonderry in said
Windham County, the last publication to be at
least six weeks prior 90 tie session of the said
court to which the same is returnable. Which
sad publication shall lie deemed sufficient no.
tice 10 the said lihelee to appear and contest
the same shall she tit.
Given under my hand at Rrattleboro in said
windham County the 2Ctl' la! of June \. d.
1893.
ROYAL TYLER, Clerk.
Ha.kins & Stoddard, Atty's for Libellant.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
JOSEPH JEFFERSON.
Give the evil one hi, duo. There i,

Give the evil one his due. There is
one advantage the Chinese have over the
white man, and that i, that they can
keep their mouths shut. What John Is
going to do or not going to do you never
can find out from him. This reticence
is assumed probably for self protection,
but it pcrvadcs the Chinaman in Amer
ica from the laundryman to the highest
official. You may pull Johns cue, you
may swear at him, you may smash his
washhouse windows in, yet never a word
he answers back. He stretches his dry
little lips tight across his mouth and en-
dures in wooden silence. He may med
itate revenge He probably does, but it
will be taken in way and time that his
tormentors are not expecting. He broods
and bides his time. Even when you try
to converse with him friendly in his
laundry, he mostly pretends not to un-
derstand, and his language is confined to
tho vocabulary of shirts and the price
you pay him for renovating them. That
he knows perfectly. He is watchful,
suspicious sphinx carved in ivory. Even
Chem She Lem, accused Of being gov
eminent envoy commissioned by the
emperor to study the status Of his coun-
trymen in America and report on Amer
lean public opinion toward them, an
swers nothing when asked if this is the
case.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
1t is said that in spite of the verdict Of

1t is said that in spite of the verdict OF
the jury and trial in which the prose-
cution in vain moved heaven and earth
to hang her there are many in Fall
River who still believe Miss Borden
guilty. The malignity which has pur-
sued the unfortunate girl from the first
in quarters near her home is utterly IN
applicable. It looks almost as II the
frightful old belief In witchcraft was
not yet extinct In Massachusetts, and
that some demoniac influence was in the
air working It's diabolism against Lizzie
Borden.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
Extracts from European papers in r,

Extracts from European papers in ref
erence to the Worlds fair show an i'll
concealed hostility to us on the part of
nearly all the writers, from the solemn
editors down to the wretched fake cor
respondents who lie about the fair per-
sistently and shamefully just because
they believe it viii please their European
readers. Well, it is not to be wondered
at. Wear republics great, rich and
successful one at that. We draw away
from Europe besides its best and plucki-
est manhood and womanhood. For these
crimes we cannot be forgiven.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
TIN
Londonderry..Sifter
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
THIN

Liverpool ought TO be an American
city, it is 30 snterprising. Besides the
elevated electric railway there, the lar
gest dredge in the world has just been
put into. the mouth Of the Mersey by the
live Yankee Britons of Liverpool. The
dredge raises $4,000 tons Of mud day
from the river bottom.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

The sensations of an individual who
assists in breaking open Jail, taking
out prisoner and hanging him to a tree
till he is dead must be peculiar, to say
the least, when the individual finds out
that he lynched the wrong man. The
blood Of the innocent will be on his
hands forever. Do what he may, 20
where he will, he can never get rid of
the recollection. From that day on he
is haunted man. If he has the feel
ings Of human being, the protests, the
purple, distorted face Of the man he has
helped to murder, will pursue him till he
joins his victim in the world to come.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

Is it an invitation to filibustering when
a Cuban announces that the revolution
airy sentiment is spreading in the island
and that force Of 10000 men well &C.
quainted with the country could whip
out the whole 5000 soldiers maintained
there by Spain and proclaim republica
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

When the thermometer marks hun
bred in the shade, think Of polar bear
upon an iceberg; think of hundred gal
Ions Of ice cream in glass house under
the sea; think of the look on the face of
your rich relative when you ask him to
lend you Is.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07
Declining Birth Rates.

One would hardly guess from the
swarms of children in every street and
schoolhouse that the birth rate of even
the United States is falling off at a rapid
rate, but DR.. J. S. Billings informs us
in The Forum that such is the fact.
Even in 1880 there were SO children born
to every 100 inhabitants. Now there are
only trife over 80. The same dimin-
ishing rate is observed in all European
countries, even Ireland and Italy. DR..
Billings does not regard this fact with
great alarm, however. The same state
of affairs was noticed in the decline Of
the Roman empire, and if the birth rate
had not diminished in those days the
world would have been awfully over
crowded now, and no American would
have had room to spread himself.
1t is not sign Of the decline of the
United States, however, this diminish
ing number Of babies. DR.. Billings says
it is attributable to several causes. One
is the increasing Discrimination CT women
to marry and enter what seems to them
domestic slavery. In these days women
have educated tastes and prefer to re-
main single and crafty these themselves
by earning their own living if they cannot
find husband rich enough to suit them.
Other reasons are the increased migra-
ton from the rural districts of our coun-
try to the city. The increase of wealth
and luxury has educated expensive
tastes into the people, and they are I'M
willing to burden themselves with chill
dren unless they can.give to these all the
advantages of the time. Still, if the chill
dren that are born have happy child
hood, surrounded with everything that
can make them become healthy, useful
and intelligent citizens, it does not mat
ter that there are not SO many, DR. Bill
lings seems to think. He writes:
1t does not appear to me that this lessenine
Of the birth rate is In itself an evil or that il
will be worth while to attempt to increase the
birth rate merely for the sake Of maintaining
a constant increase in population, because to
neither this nor the next generation will such
increase be specially beneficial. But consid.
cred as one Of the signs Of forces which are at
work to modify the existing conditions of So
ciety, and some of which appear to be Of evil
tendency, this diminution Of the birth rate
merits careful consideration by statisticians
1 sociologists, politicians and all who are inter.
ested In tho physical and moral well being Of
the inhabitants Of this country.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

The governors of Arkansas and South
Dakota have spoken out in favor Of a
great interstate railway from North Da-
kota to the gulf Of Mexico. But these
two governors-one from the north, tho
other from the south-are agreed that
the federal government should control
this interstate railway. The laws and
interests would be too conflicting to
trust its management to the states
through which it would pass, they think.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

In old times it seemed to be thought
that medicine must be nauseating to be
effective. Now, all this is changed. Ayers
Sarsaparilla, one of the most powerful al
teratives, is agreeable to most palates, the
flavor being by no means medicinal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

A soft, fair skin is the result of pure
blood and a healthy liver, to secure which,
Ayers Sarsaparilla is the Superior Medi-
cine. Ladies who rely upon cosmetics to
beautify their compilations, should make
q note of this, bearing in mind that they
can't improve upon nature.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

Observe this from Outing: "There is
neither need for nor sense in taking gun
or rifle into the woods at season when
the law forbids its use upon birds and
animals certain to be seen."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-07

Here Is one of Senator Stanford's say
hgs which is worth remembering:
obstacles are only things to be over
come. l have no hobbies l cannot put
into practice"