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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
Fruit in tho Northwest.

There is an impression among eastern
people that fruit win not grow in some
of the states of the northwest, the Da-
kotas, for instance. But we find from
report Of the South Dakota Horticultural
society that in this state at least fruit
of many varieties and excellent quality
is produced in abundance, Among them
are grapes, apples, plums and berries of
all kinds, 1t is true few precautions
are necessary, as one Dakota fruit grower
lelictously observes-the same as are
taken by eastern fruit growers One of
these is that in most parts of South Da-
kota there seems to be doubled and
twisted crop of insect pests, These must
be sprayed for all there is in it with
paris green, london purple and other
rainbow preventives. AT the approach
of winter grapes must be laid gently
down upon the soil and covered in a
warm bed with coarse hay if the vari-
ETY. is old and tough; with earth and lit
ter" if it is young and tender. But if
this is done there will be excellent fruit.
The Concord grape is reported to thrive
best.
The whole country may point with
pride to the achievement of these Dakota
people in tree planting and fruit pro-
ducing. One speaker at the convention
reported his mother as saying that thirty
years ago there was not on two quarter
sections switch large enough to whip
child with. So the Dakota youngsters
missed one unpleasant experience at
least.
But those brave pioneers went from
eastern homes where fresh. ripe fruit and
berries were plentiful; where great,
beautiful trees shaded the lawn in sum-
mer and evergreens ON the northwest of
the house broke the force of the chill
blasts in winter They resolved they
would have both fruit and forest in their
new home. The struggles of the pio-
neers on these treeless plains to secure
orchards and shade trees are among the
most interesting portions OF the history
Of the brave young northwestern states.
Now they have blue grass lawns. roses.
honeysuckles, pine, cedar and fir trees.
and beautiful Towering japanese catal
pas trees One pioneer strawberry cul
turist reports that for ten years he has
not had single failure with his favorite
fruit. The worst enemy some of the
fruit pioneers encountered in their eff
forts was the silvery tcnguod but unre-
liable nursery agent. Dozens of varie
ties of fruits had to be tried before one
was found that would thrive in that
o1;,,,to
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

ramuses by making constantly such
slips as there amt nobody" didn't
see nobody" etc, instead of saying
there is nobody" II didn't see any
body" and l'now nobody" Stop US
ing two negatives Are the women with
diamonds and the man with gold
watch chain going to persistently use
them" where they should use those,
and say .'them cars" and "them books
instead of those cars" and those
books?"
Nay, more. Shall we pose as an Eng
fish speaking nation that habitually uses
''jist" for "just. .sich" for such" git
for "get" and right away" when we
mean lat onceY Shall we let these
foreigners know that there are Ameri'
cans, and plenty of them-Americans
educated i'll our public schools VINO
think it sounds stuck up and pedantic
to use the best language they know
therefore they drop intothe vulgar idiom
and INSTRUMENTATION with which the
foreigner from Africa and from Europe
have corrupted our common lingos For
the sake of our country and the memory
of George Washington, mol Do not let
them know it.
Therefore start in now. early in 1891
and talk English Don't say THE boys
is going to school" or people says,
THE boys are going to school" and
people say" Stop giving us these de-
formed. crippled monstrosities of Ian
guage
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
This IS Meant for You.

1t has been truly said that half the
world does not know how the other half
lives. Comparatively few of us have per-
feet health, owing to the impure condi-
ton of our blood. But we rub along
from day to day, with scarcely thought,
unless forced to our attention, of the
thousands all about us who are suffering
from scrofula, salt rheum and other seri-
blood disorders, and whose agonies can
only be immagined. The marked success
of Hoods Sarsaparila for these troubles,
as shown in our advertising columns
frequently, certainly seems to justify urg-
ing the use of this excellent medicine by
all who know that their blood is disor-
dered. Every claim in behalf of Hood
Sarsaparilla is fully backed up by what
the medicine has done and is still doing,
and when its proprietors urge it's merits
and its use upon all who who suffer from
impure blood, in great or small degrees,
they certainly mean to include you.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
Public Executions.

If hangings must be, then the mob
should be shut out absolutely from see
ing them. Nothing more revolving or
demoralizing to humanity, has been wit
messed recently than the behavior of the
spectators at late hanging, Men gath
cred in numbers the night before the
hanging as if to a country circus. Whis-
ky was passed freely among them, and
they became drunk and made night hid
cons with their whooping and yelling.
They cut away fences and climbed trees
in order to get sight of the show in the
jailyari. They even Struggled whisky
to t:ae guard who formed the watch, and
some Of them became dead drunk too.
When the morning came and the pris-
oners were led to execution the mob
jeered and howled like demons. Some
of the condemned suffered horribly be-
fore life became extinct The blood
thirsty mob laughed in fiendish glee and
cursed and sang and danced like demons
from sheol. Nothing more disgraceful
was ever witnessed in America. The
men and boys who gazed on that scene
will go through life henceforth with less
regard for human life and with more
calloused feelings toward human suffer-
ing in any shape. 1t was with difficulty
they were kept from anticipating the le-
gal execution by taking the hanging into
their own hands. They will henceforth
be more dangerous members of the COM
munity for being unchecked in their con-
duct that night and for being allowed to
witness that hanging.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
Not a Wealthy Man.

In summing up Mr.. Blaine's career
immediately after his death New Yor
paper said, HE wouldnot have been con.
Esidered wealthy man by New Workers,
his estate being worth no more than
about 81 900, OO0O."
The writer of this sentence presumed
Ito speak for the people of New York
Let us see. The census shows that there
ARE some 100000 inhabitants in that
|city. Of that number !, 2O0,0 live il
flats, apartments and tenement houses
This is three-fourths of the whole popu
ilation. So densely packed are these that
with all its wealth, and counting all the
beautiful homes of the multimillionaires
the whole average of houses and people
in that city shows there are not less thar
four families to every house in the cor
|porate limits.
But Blaine would not be considered {
rich man by the people of New York
Are the people of New York the 400, 0O(
Ewho live in house all to themselves
or are they the 100000 who herd to
gether like beeves ON the way to market
lin cattle car? In what is called the
|slum or tenement house district of the
city 5000 families are packed together
THE deadly crowding, filth and wretch
ledness in which they exist are moi
equaled, it is to be hoped, elsewhere il
THE world. If each one of these New
York families had 81 100000, would they
or would they not count themselves rich
Who are the people of New York any
thowp
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

her dramatic greatness. She not only
had the power of expression, but had
masterful intellectually of her own.
More than sixty years ago she began her
stage career in London and won fame
and success at a bound. For her there
was no grievous toiling by slow steps up
the hill. She occupies place in Ameri-
can social and dramatic history because
she lived long among us and because Of
h,r South Carolina husband, Colonel
Pierce Butler, whose home on the plan
tation she left because she could not toll
crate slavery. After abandoning the
regular life of the actress she continued
giving Shakespearean recitations till she
was sixty years old: then she followed
authorship Her last book was pub
ished so late as 1882. This gifted wom-
an had extraordinary grace of figure and
carriage, which she said was largely ow-
ing to the fact that in her girlhood her
mother had required her to be drilled in
military exercises by the regular drill
master of one of the regiments stationed
In her native town in England.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
About Divorce Laws

If you think you will ever want di-
vorce from any cause whatever, do not
go to South Carolina to live. That is
the one state of the Union in which there
is absolutely no divorce allowed. The
only way in which married people there
can get apart is to run away from each
other and hide. In all the other states
divorce is allowed for Scriptural cause.
As one goes west divorce laws become
more liberal. In forty -one of the forty
four states divorce is permitted for ex-
treme cruelty, and in thirty three states
for intemperance. In all but nine of the
states a term in the penitentiary will re-
lease the prisoners husband or wife from
the matrimonial chain, while in twenty
two states and territories gross neglect
will secure divorce if it is proved on
the husband or wife. The term ''neg-
lect," too, is as elastic as peoples con-
science and can be stretched to cover
anything from abandonment outright to
failure to take wife to an evening
party.
Nebraska and the Dakotas are perhaps
more liberal in their divorce laws than
any other states in the time required for
residence before the suit is commenced.
A residence in Nebraska for six months
viii entitle an applicant for divorce to
commence action, while in both the Da-
kotas the applicant need only reside
within the state ninety days. For some
reason persons who wished to be united
have grayitated to Sioux Falls, S. D., in
large numbers, forming what is called
the divorce colony, thereby scandalizing
citizens of that promising young state
who do not believe in divorce.
In 1892 ninety divorces We're granted
in Sioux Falls. The applicants were
mostly women. The churches and the
ladies of the W. c. T. U. in South Da-
kota endeavored to have the divorce in
dustry stopped, at least to great extent
Powerful pressure was brought to bear
on the legislature to lengthen the term
of residence to at least a year.
The Sioux Falls lawyers, however, as
well as various other citizens, asked this
question, Why should the legislature, ON
merely sentimental grounds, drive out
of South Dakota and into North Dakota
and Nebraska business which brings
to Sioux Falls over 100000 year? So
the legislature defeated the bill to
lengthen the term of residence to year.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

If the United States does annex Ha.
wall, it will come to us exactly as SC
many of Great Britain's colonies have
come to her. First the missionaries went
out with Bibles to convert the heather.
Then followed the opening of the coun,
try to the white mans trade. Then it
became necessary to protect the trade
interests. Then followed soldiers, an.
nexation and possession. The men fore
most in the revolution and annexation
movement at Hawaii are the descendants
of missionaries who went from the
United States to the Sandwich Islands
years ago. Judge Sanford B. Dole, pres.
ident Of the provisional government, ID
the son of missionary parents who went
from Massachusetts to the islands in
ElS40, Hon. Lorin A. Thurston, presi-
dent of tho annexation commission, is
the grandson of missionary parents who
went from Massachusetts in 1919, 1t
seems to be the old pilgrim father blood
that is stirring up this rumpus again.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
Never Mind the Howlers.

There seems tendency lately, crop
ping out in the monthly magazines, to
lament the degeneracy of the time that
is on us now. Women writers especially
have taken Up the thankless role of Jere-
miah and chant in melancholy measure
that all the world is going to the dogs.
The dear old ladies! One grieves because
''sel wants." so called, have not the loyal
ty to their employers that they used to
have in the good old days when Mrs.
Pepys, for instance, used to beat her
maid Mary for staying out over night
without permission. The odd thing about
this good old dame who writes is that it
does not occur to her at all to blame the
mistresses themselves for any part of the
change, but throws it on all the maids,
although naturally they are expected to
have less brains and intelligence than the
women who hire them.
Another Mrs. Jeremiah is especially
concerned for the morals of flirting
wives in our time. You might suppose
from her lamentation that there was not
left in fashionable society a good wife or
mother any more, or any married woman
who attended to her domestic duties.
Yet another writer thinks there never
WAS time when labor WAS oppressed as
it is now, forgetful altogether of the fact
that in many of the manual trades boy
apprentices had to work sixteen hours
day even in England WITHIN TIE memory
of living men and set almost nothing
for it.
Don't believe any of the croaking old
ravens The very fact that SO much fuss
IS made about the deficiencies of domes-
tic service and the wrongs of LABOR is ev-
ilence that these evils never were so near
being righted as they are now. Bemen-
Der just this: If we do wrong, no matter
what kind of a wrong, We must pay the
penalty in full. Other people must do
the same, and we do not have to punish
them. Our business is to keepbur own
lives high and pure, mintlingsour own
:ifairs. The fact is. society wis never
so bright or kindly or charitablc'or clean
rs it is now, and one of the best indica-
lions of it is the increased liberty that
women enjoy. Liberty never hurt any
body, and woman can be trusted to take
care of herself and her children. The
mother heart Of the sex can never go far
astray.
Pure morality and human brotherhood
were never inculcated practically and
theoretically as they are now. There
never was so much effort on tho part of
the rich and intelligent to help poor
people to lives of comfort. The general
tendency is in that direction.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
FOR SALE.

My Farm, formerly the Newell Hunt
ing place. Said farm is in the town of
Winhall joining Londonderry on the east,
Peru on the north, and on direct road
from So. Londonderry to Manchester.
Farm contains IS acres more or less, suit
ably divided into pasture, tilaye and
wood land with splendid sugar orchard
of 500 trees.
The buildings consist of large two
story house with l., two cattle barns,
horse barn and henncry and other out
buildings all in best of repair, running
water TO house and barn; also nice well
in cellar, all the laud lies to the south.
and is in high state of cultivation.
Said farm is three miles from So. Lon
douderry and twelve from Manchester
and near school. Farm cuts hay enough
10 winter fifteen head of cattle beside
team and can be bought low this fall on
account of poor health.
For further particulars enquire of S.
M. Holden, So. Londonderry, OF the SUBJ
scriber on the premises.
C. V. BRYANT.
Winhall, VT, Oct, 10, 80.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

A joint resolution for constitutional
amendment calling for the election Of
United States senators by popular vote
instead of by the legislatures of the states
has already passed the national house
of representatives This is one of the
changes that the Twentieth century will
probably witness. Then different polit,
ical parties in a legislature can no longer
lock horns and stay locked till warm
weather thGws them out.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

} Honolulu is nearer to Washington
than Alaska is" says Hon. George II
Bates, ex-commissioner to Samoa. i
can also be reached from Washington il
shorter time than California coult
when it became United States territory
One reason that Hawaii seems so fan
from the United States is that there arr
no steamers on the Pacific as swift a;
the Atlantic f,iers, Hawaii is 2,lOO mile,
from San Francisco. 1t requires almost
10 days for the present line of steamers
to reach it. The United States man-of,
war Mariposa, however, can make the
distance in 81 days. The distance from,
New York to Liverpool is 3,0l7 miles
yet the Atlantic steamers do it in week
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

1t is to be hoped that the proposed in
vestigation of the Nicaragua Canal com
pay will be carried through to the end
and the disbursing agents of the company
be required to account for the way in
which every cent they paid out was ex-
pended This will now be necessary in
view of the Panama scandal. The agents
of the company will doubtless welcome
as eagerly as anybody this opportunity
to show their countrymcn that the bust
ness of the Nicaragua canal is in clean
hands. We shall have no Panama scan
dal in America. The public will want
to know on exactly what kind of basis
the Nicaragua canal stands before in
yesting money in it, and the directors of
the enterprise will of course be only too
glad to show how honestly and econom-
ically the funds have thus far been man
aged.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
How He Broke Hi. Collar Bone.

Melvin Prilay. son of the Ohio street
grocer, met with a singular accident the
other day in the breaking of his collar
bone. He was putting on his overcoat
preparatory to delivering load of goods,
when he felt something break, but
thought it was collar button or some
thing of that sort. Returning to the
store, he experienced severe pain, and
upon going to a physician he was told
what had happened. The broken bone
was set. and Mr.. Priley is now much
better Bangor (Me.l Commercial,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
The Jewish Colony in New Jersey

Early in the year 1881 the American
agents of Baron IIirsch bought 5, 100 acres
OF wild pine lands in southern New Jer
sey. This was in anticipation of the ar
rival of large number of Russian Jewish
exiles. They came, and the real colony was
founded in April, 1891. Most OF the men
had been tradesmen in Russia. but it
was partly to keep them from over
crowding still more the field of peddling
and small merchandising among their
race in America that the attempt was
made to put them to farming. The 5, 100
acres were divided into 30-acre plots
which represented the farm that was to
be allotted to each family. 1t was a
very small farm, according to American
ideas; still the result shows that the
founders of the colony calculated cor
rectly Tie families were settled upon
the plots VIII the privilege Of buying
them, being allowed twelve years to pay
for them.
The result thus far has been crafty
ing in all respects. The first work done
by the colonists was to chop down the
pine trees and clear the ground; the
next was to cultivate the soil. Professor
II. l.. Sabsovitch, Learned Russian
Jew, who came to America some years
ago, gave up his place as professor of
chemistry at the Colorado state agricul-
tural experiment station to take charge
of the farming operations of the exiles
in New Jersey. Cloak and trousers fac
tories have been established besides the
farming industry, and the Russian Jew
ish colony promises to add substantially
to the wealth of southern Jersey There
are now about 600 people in the colony.
Woodbine is their postoffice and railroad
station. Many of them have taken out
preliminary naturalization papers.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
Saxon and Sandwich Islander

The main source of the trouble at Ha-
waii seems to have been that Queen
Liliuokalani had visited Europe and got
her head turned by the Difference paid to
royalty there. She had seen the snob-
bishness, the toadyism, the getting down
and crawling of civilized white men be-
fore the sovereigns of Europe. The
kings and queens treated her for the
time as one of themselves. 1t amused
them to do SO, but it spoiled Liliuoka-
lani for plain working life She deter
mined to be as absolute a despot as the
GEAR of Russia. She hated the whites,
particularly Americans, because they
Opposed this in the interests of their
own lives and property. The constitu-
ton which she endeavored to fix upon
the people abolished altogether the house
OF mobiles, or upper house of the legis-
lature, to which many of the foreign
ers belonged. The legislature consisted
of two houses of "a members each, rep
resentatives and mobiles.
The new constitution which Liliuoka-
lani intended to promulgate deprived all
white men of the right to vote and left
the appointment and dismissal of judges
of the supreme court wholly in the hands
lof the queen, limiting them to 6-year
term besides.
There is no doubt that if the natives
alone had been consulted in the matter
they would have preferred to give Liliu-
okalani all the power she wanted, to the
exclusion of foreigners" as all the
white men are called, though their an
cestors have been in Hawaii for genera
tions. But that is just what the white
men would not endure. They had too
many business interests at stake to per-
NIT it. Their lives would perhaps have
been endangered besides from drunken
native mob. The Kanakas are given up
to drunkenness in frightful degree,
and this and other vices of civilization
are wiping them surely off the earth. SO
it comes about that Hawaiians them
sCiNCo udf0 Icdiiy llIJle Sdy III Tie IldLtCI
of whether they shall be annexed. They
probably will not mind it much one way
or the other.
Everybody viii try to travel to Eu-
rope by the German lines if it is true
that they have adopted an absolutely
smokeless fuel, for the smoke and Gin
ders from ships tunnels are the worst
nuisance to deck promenaders on an
ocean voyage. The Berlin Rauchlosever-
brennungsgesellschaft makes the fuel. 1t
ought to be able to make anything. Coal
dust is mingled with air by certain
kind of treatment, and the mixture is
used for firing furnaces. 1t is claimed
that by the use of this fuel there is
no smoke, neither any wear of boilers.
The Rauchloseverbrennungsgesellschaft
ought to have fine show of its smoke
less fuel on exhibition at Chicago.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

The Ammen battle ram constructed a
Bath, Me-, is called the Katahdfh. Som,
irreverent American will immediatel,
nickname it the Katydid. and thus it will
go down to history,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
Will. work and wait.

The scientific men who talked about
the gulf stream setting in more toward
the Atlantic coast, and our winters be-
coming in consequence mlder. are not
saying as much as they We're,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10
m located at
Manchester Centre.
Harness and Horse Furnishings
See Here!

A genuine Full Rubber Trimmed single
Strap Harness for $4,000.
A nickel or imitation rubber trimmed
single strap Harness for SIG, 90. !
A one and half Farm Harness, $3j.
A double driving Harness for $37.
These are all my own make, made of
Mo. l oak stock and fully warranted.
You will always find full stock of
Whips, Brushes, Halters, Curry c, mbs.
Surcinsles, Blankets. Robes and Lap
Busters in their season, in fact every
thing for the horse and stable.
sell the best hand made factory har-
ness made for the money-$l2.OO.
Remember will not be undersold.
Repairing and Trim ming
a specially.
Mail orders promptly attended to.
j. T. BENTLEY,
Manchester Centre, vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-10

There are some yet living who can re-
call the thrilling Shakespearean recita-
tons of Fanny Kemble, and these per-
hars will be surprised that she died only
lately, so completely had she dropped
out of notice in her last days. She was
a month older than Gladstone. Since
Mrs. Siddons no woman has possessed