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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
kneninc Still unIfa n,inute,

There was no s1aa e:,ccp, iiie faint
and ri,S,lla: tick of Il watch. Otherwise
silence and gloom perverted the ciegaG ly
furnished drawing room
In one chair sat Il beautiful girl Ter
lips tightly cioael. her eyes starin.
straight before her arl hrr evcrr MIS-
Gle tense with powerful effort OF self
control. In another sal u Young man
whose face expressed s,,iousucs, Lot
| confidence In is l:.l.,d la2htid an o"cn
watch. which be Observed c!canly Only
raising his eyes now and t,ien to i,liucc
at the beautiful girl, WHO src;iied 10 be
in such ;,-ony Five seconds. 70 +, %
seconds passed The position of neither
the Young man nor beautiful girl had
changed. Suddenly her eyes i,!camel
with will light: her bosom l'eaved; she
slasped her hands corvulsively.
Il must sredk' burst from her blood
less lips.
"Twenty-fcur seconds" said the young
inan as he closed the watch and put it
back INFO his pocket. You loss the
lraramclS by sly seconds exactly"
lie had bet on y sure thiug. but she
wot not. Truth
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
Profitable Summer outi.as.

II the rich and tired people who give
Conventional parties in hot weather were
TO follow the example of some young
New England students, they could have
summer outing that would refresh
them hike the shadow Of great rock in
weary land, and they would learn
something besides. The young people
were Of both sexes, which made the party
all the merrier. Early in April. when
the buds began to swell and take shape,
they formed themselves into tree club.
Its object was the study of American
forest trees in their vicinity. Many of
them in the beginning did not know an
oak from a willow or an acorn from a
sycamore ball. They had few stand
ard textbooks, but their one great book
was rightly natures own. the trees them
selves.
Each Saturday afternoon from April
till cold weather meeting was held, the
first Is minutes of which were occupied
by literary exercises, such as the reading
Of poems or quotations about trees and all
belonging to them. The distinctive work
expected of each member of the club
was making collection Of the leaves,
buds, blossoms, nuts and fruits of all
the trees in the locality. Beginning
with the first blossom buds the member
was expected to collect and press speci-
mems, the full flower, the green leaf and
the richly colored leaf of the same tree
in autumn. A list of more than 100 of
the common American forest trees was
given to each individual, SO that he
might find the trees named and familiar
ize himself with their appearance. habits
of growth and uses.
The best part of the time spent was
that occupied with the long, pleasant
tramps in search of specimens. They
were perpetual delight. The club MEM
bers found how certain trees grew al
ways in given localities, and whether on
hilltop or in valley, and what kind of
soil they indicated, and secured trophies
for the leaf album. When they returned
home, they We're tired, but happy and
healthy, and the walks gave them such
an appetite for dinner as the tired
(ounger on the summer hotel piazza
never knows. Ever after that summer
the members of the club will have their
eyes open Wien they walk or drive. No
landscape WI be dull. The powers of
observation developed thcn will be in
valuable all the rest of their lives.
By the examination of trees they have
trained eye and mind to closely observe
other things. 1t will save them many a
mistake. This is by no means the least
Of the good results accomplished by the
| tree club.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

The prisoner ut the bar was "a prisoner
not so much possibly because he had
Knocked a man down on the highway
and robbed him as that he had been
caught III the act by the police and
brought there. In any event he was
there, and the policeman in the unro-
mantle manner of policemen had mar
rated the circumstances.
"You hear what the officer says" said
the court sternly. He states that you
knocked the man down and robbed him.
What have you to say?"
Nothing, your honor, as to that part, y
responded the prisoner, but want to
deny emphatioally certain aspersions he
has cast on my character, your honor"
Indeed? And what are they, pray?
inquired the court sarcastically.
"Why, your honor, he said he believed
came from Chicago and had been run
ming feed factory on the Worlds fair
grounds. hope, your honor, that am
still entitled to protection against cal.
umny."
The court, having been at the Worlds
fair opening week, made the officer apol.
ogize at oncc.-Detroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
Freebooter charters will probably be

Freebooter charters will probably be
the next step il municipal government.
In 1875 the Missouri constitutional con-
vention adopted a clause providing that
the voters of any city with population
of 100000 or more might elect board
Of freeholders at any time to frame a
charter for the city. This charter was
to be submitted TO I'll the voters of the
city for adoption or rejection, and it
was subject always to the approval or
disapproval of the state Legislature. The
new plan of letting the people of city
themselves ADOPT or reject their own
charter was tried frat in st. Louis. next
in Kansas City. 1t has worked we'll,
and the example is being followed in
some other states. In Washington any
town of 10000 or over may elect FREQ
holders to frame Il city charter and
then the voters rlay accept or refuse
the charter after it has been framed.
The clause providing for home rule
for cities was also placed in the Cal
ifornia state constitution II y. Each
large city has needs peculiar to it.
self which its own inhabitants under.
stand better than any one else can, and
the frccholdcrs' charter system enables
them to adapt a government to their
own wants.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
But They WIN Como 10 us.

Canada is SO hard up for immigrants
10 spot over her desolatc western prairies
that she sends to Iceland for them. Last
summer one shipload of Icelanders was
brought to Manitoba. Compared with
their own snow mountains Manitoba
was tropical paradise, and so the i'm
migrants We're pleased, and they pros
pered. Now Manitoba has sent an agent
and another ship to the island which is
three months away, to beg mere people
from those jolly icebound shorce to come
to her relief.
They may come or they may not. But
If they do it is reasonably certain that
in course of q not long time they will
skip over the border and come to the
United States, just as Irish, Scotch, Ger
man and Scandinavian settlers do-yes,
as even the native French Canadians
themselves do. 1t is fact that the
northern border Of Dakota and other
states along the Canadian line are being
settled up with people as rapidly as the
southern portions, and these new arrivals
come over from the British dominions.
They land in Canada, rub their eyes open
and look around. They are largely agri-
culturists. The great fields of the west
must be farmed by machinery or not at
all. But the only machinery that will
answer the purpose is made in the United
States, and Canada charges duties on its
importation at the rate of 80 to 40 per cent
of its value in some cases. So after a
few months the colonists come to the
United States, where they can get the
machinery without paying the duty, and
find just as good soil and a warmer eli
mate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Chicago is to be congratulated on the
cool way in which her heavy bank
ers sat in their offices and paid out,
hour after hour, money demanded of
them by their panic stricken creditors,
whose numbers ran up into the thou
sands. 1t shows there is solid founda-
ton to Chicago business deals such as
the country in general does not accuse
the Windy City of. The president of
the bank on which there was the largest
run-the Illinois Trust and Savings bank
was even able to joke about the mat
ter. The bank carries over $40, 0O0, 900
demand deposits. This run will save
the bank more than $50 .00O," said Presi-
dent Mitchell. "Depositors will lose
the July semiannual interest dividends
on all money withdrawn"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Harrison Reed, a modest young lie
er residing near Kokomo, Ind, st. q
to Delphi Tuesday, expecting to bel
ried that evening to a young lady of tia
place, Willie at Logansport, where ae
had to change cars, the county sherh
called on him to serve as a juror in an
embezzlement case about to be tried.
The rural young man protested, but the
officer would accept no excuse. and Reed
was held there four days.
On his release he continued his. jour
ney. and when he arrived at Delphi he
found the family in a high state of in
dignation, the cXpcctant bride refusing
to see him and ordering him off the
premises,
Reed was compelled to return home
without his bride and now threatens a
damage suit against the court officials
for OBTAINING him. Cor. San Francisco
Examiner.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
THE BAKER AND UNDERTAKE..

Within block of houses our towns pride,
That fronts uuon growing business street
Are stores W. fitted up, ornate and neat,
With signs outside desiring buyers IN guide.
tine store was iilled and honorcd by a baker
With fine show Of cake and bread baked
brown.
Next door 10 him, the iancicst front in town
Was the fine outfit Of an undertaken
For want OF trade and seeking better clover,
They moves, their business both TO other
quarters
For the cony, nlcrce al SONS and daughters,
People who eat or thuse whose eating il over.
On being questioned why they moved away,
The baker said. Few persons nw lived
there"
The undertaken said, with looks OF care,
THAT not n death had he In many day."
Edward \. Crcamer IN New York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

It remained at last for an American
railway engine to beat the worlds rec
ord for speed. An engine on the road
from Buffalo to Rochester not long since
made mile in so seconds. As long as
she is about it. that engine should now,
like Nancy Hanks, endeavor to cut down
the seconds and next time she tries her
self give us an even mile to the half
v,,iouto
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

New York is last in everything. 1t
was the last city of any size to adopt ca
BILE cars, 1t did not begin to understand
baseball until the so called provincial
cities had became tired of the game, it
never appreciated the joys of first class
circus until few years ago, and now II
has just awoke to the advantages Of open
air horse and cattle shows.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
The Finan cial Situation

We reprint the following from Presi-
dent Cleveland's announcement that he
would call an extra session of congress in
September to consider the financial situa-
ton:
think that between now and the meeting of
congress much depends upon the action Of
those engaged in financial operations and bust
ness enterprises. Our vast national resources
and credit are abundantly Sufficient to Justify
them in tho utmost faith and confidence. II.
instead Of being frightened they are conserva-
tive, and II, instead of gloomily anticipating
immediate disaster, they contribute their share
Of hope and steadiness, they will perform =
patriotic duty and at the same time protect
their own interest. The things Just now needed
are GOODNESS and calmness in financial circles
and study and reflection among our people.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
whv Pear, Button. Are Expensive,

One reason why the pearl shells have
gone up is the demand for big pearl Lut-
tons. Many of them are seen on ladies'
dresses now. They are nearly half as
big as saucer, and being so big it takes
plenty of shells to make them.
A lot Of pearl mill people put up the
big button scheme year or two ago.
They had been running at a loss, so they
closed down their mills for some time.
There soon arose clamor for pearl but
tons, and after awhile some of the mills
started again. but they gave their atten-
ton mainly to turning out big buttons
and obtained assistance from several
fashion magazines. The result was that
style was soon in vogue, and this they
have assiduously catered to ever since.
Shutting off the production of pearls,
or at least greatly abridging it, the prod
net will probably go higher and be con-
sidered quite the thing for jewelry and
ornaments of various kinds.-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Will fashionable people never give
themselves any rest at alli 1t is now the
proper thing for them. as soon as they
are settled In their country places, to
issue invitations for receptions, garden
parties and other dress up affairs, just
as If they were still in the city. The
only changes are those of locality and
the fashion of dress. There will be pre-
cisely the same people, and they will say
exactly the same things and go through
the same conventional PAGES that they
trotted in winter. Excuse us. if you
please.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Our sapicnt powers that be have found
way out Of the Chinese exclusion
middle that is worthy to be immortal
lied in comic opera. The supreme court
decides that the Geary law is constitu-
tional. Then the secretary of the treas
ury sends circular around to collectors
of customs that they need not enforce
the law. Ais well that ends WELL
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Postmaster General Bissell has de-
cided that nobody shall send disease
germ, however securely put up, through
the mails. No, indeed. not if we know
it. But how about the millions of dis
ease germs that are mailed every day on
the outside of letters? How about the
cancerous, consumptive, malarious, dys-
peptic, dried up microbes that float on
the air everywhere from the eternal, in
fernal splitting Of railway clerks, letter
carriers and almost everybody else in
this great country?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
To Visiting Foreigners-If YOU dom

To Visiting Foreigners you don't
find the climate you want, ask for it. We
can give you any climate, any tempera-
ture, at any time in this great country.
We are equal to it. Our climatic, as we'll
as all our other resources, are boundless.
On one day. at the same hour. recently
the thermometer III some of the middle
belt states marked 70: in New York city.
%: still hotter in the gulf states, while
in northwestern boom town, which we
shall not mention for fear of hurting its
feelings. the temperature was "a degrees,
with frost OH the railroad ties
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
THE
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.

1t is worthy of notice as having come
for the first time from a close observer
and clear thinker that Thomas Went
worth Higginson is Of the opinion that
accumulated wealth and power may
have had more to do with the overturn-
ing In the last national election than any
thing else-even the tariff"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Court of Insolvency
District of Westminster TO all per-
sons interested in the estate of A. F..
Livermare's sons, of Londonderry in
said District, insolvent debtors: No.
tlce is hereby given that, pursuant to
the order of said Court, the second
meeting of the creditors Of said in
solvent debtors will be held at the Of
flee of A. f. Cudworth in London
derry aforesaid on Tuesday, June
81, 1898.
Bellows Falls, June 8, 1898.
Zina H. Allbee,
Register.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
Reading and Character.

Reading cannot give either Judgment
or insight or decision-that is, can in no
way create character-and it is on char
acter that efficiency mainly if not en-
tirely depends. Charlemagne rebuilt
the western empire, but could never
write and remained to the end of his
life dependent on his secretaries for book
nowledge.-London Spectator.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Only for the thorough cleaning up that
American cities received this spring we
should probably have had cholera with
in our borders ere this. 1t may come
still. but the check it got in the start
from the application of the principles of
modern sanitation by great and en-
lightened people will prevent its fasten-
ing its foul clutch fully upon us.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

A New York paper declares that Ed
win Booth was 30 famous and popular
that even the 'west and south" knew Of
him and Shakespeare, II, in proportion
to its population, there are not more peo-
pie in New York city this day who never
heard Of either Edwin Booth or Shake
speare than there are in any southern or
western state of the Union, then we will
agree to eat whole volume of Shake
aneare
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
An I;rcrrrtic Amrricin t;irI.

Miss Jennie Young the American girl
who built railroad to The ext2'i,ive silt
deposits she owns in Chihu,iii,a has re.
ceived from the Mexican government a
valuable concession in tie form of 3
privilege for the establishment of colo
MICS in the states Of Gllihuaiua and Goh!.
hula. Miss Young has gone TO England
to make arrangements for bringing ovcl
several thousand English families 10 sci.
tie upon the lands She has secured from
the government
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Their state building at Chicago shows
that Iowans have fine artistic taste as
well as an eye to the main chance. 1t
is beautiful. And Iowa is not going to
suffer for want of letting the public
know of her advantages. In conspicu-
GUS places in tlb tasteful interior are
displayed such little items Of inforna-
ton as the following: iowa leads in
value Of farm cattle. Number. 4.011,-
233: value. $75.262.Ss8. Other animals
number. 9.026.4l2: value, $133. 496, 3l4."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

A gentleman, under forty years of age,
whose hair was rapidly becoming thin
snd gray, began the use of Ayers Hair
Vigor. and in six months his hair was re-
stored to its natural color, and even more
than its former growth and richness.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
j.. v lion For the Old.

u IS rather Interesting fact that many
do, ices and contHVances that have been
lasted from the utilitarian field by the
march of progress are now employed as
means of amusement by persons who
have time to devote seriously to pleasure
seeking. Thus the spinning wheels OF
our grandmothers are to be found con-
spicuously placed in the homes OF such
of MS us had grandmothers. and the hall
clock of other days is seen in many a
palatial home, Yet our women never
spin ON the wheels, and if we desire to
know the correct time we consult our
thermometers and not grandfather's
clock.
When our ancestors desired to go on
ong land journeys, they took passage on
fast 4-horse mail coach, albeit they
Vmbled at the discomforts of the trip.
Wien they had to go by sea, they took
l'p Today the rich at great expense
llHp' in coaches as near duplicates of
fhe ol ime "mails" as possible for long
pleasure trips, and the sailing of swift
aahsl g since left behind by steam
W t.aa in Of usefulness, is the most
unPurul nd costly sport of the age.
VS. be so? When the devel-
optl SOD rical science has been so
per- ot t.t go from point to point
~ swift .HEL will clubs of wealthy
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Happy days and restful nights result
from using Ayers Sarsaparilla. 1t so
regulates all the bodily functions and
strengthens the nervous system that
worry and fatigue are comparatively TN
known and life is truly enjoyed. 1t is
certainly most wonderful medicine.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

A contemporary describes the trouble
over DR.. Briggs in the Presbyterian
church as an irrepressible conflict be-
tween science and faith as applied to BIZ
BILE study. If mankind had more of both
science and faith, II would find there W as
no conflict between them, and the world
would be better off.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

One il shocked to find The Christian
Union indulging in spirit Of levity.
That solid and dignifed journal re-
marks: Tho collapse Of the Whisky
trust was due to the water 1t carried"
This IL dreadful.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Mime. Materna, the singer, who is to
appear in Chicago several times during
the Worlds fair, is very gleesome when
she talks of the triumph of Wagner's
music in Paris over French prejudice
against everything Teutonic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

They have been trying petroleum as
fuel on transatlantic steamer with on
couraging results. Petroleum has also
been SUCCESSFULLY used lately ~ = euro
for diphtheria.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

It Is . bad principle to hang anybody
for murder merely on the ground that
there wss nobody sase 10 do H.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
We TELL YOU
Register,

nothing new when we state that it pays to engage
in permanent most healthy and pleasant bust
ness, that returns profit for every days work.
Such is the business we offer the working class.
We teach them how to make money rapidly, and
guarantee every one who follows our instructions
faithfully the making of 100000 n month
Every one who takes hold now and works will
surely and speedily increase their earnings there
can be no question about it; Others now at work
are doing It, and you, reader, can do the same
This is the best paying business that you have
ever had the chance to secure. You will make Il
grave mistake ii you fail to give it trial at once.
If you grasp the situation, and act quickly, you
will directly find Yourself in most prosperous
business, at which you can surely make and save
large sums of money. The results of only a few
hours work will often equal weeks wages.
Whether YOU are old or young, man or woman, 1t
makes no difference, = do as we tell you, and sue
cess will meet you ut the very start. Neither
experience or capital necessary. Those who work
for us are rewarded. Why not write to-ttay for
full particulars, free +. G. ALLEN & CO,
Box No 40, Augusta, Me.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

For hot weather give MS a hammock
under a tree, lemonade and not too
much clothes.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

Lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels each
Day. IN order to be healthy this is nece ssay.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16
Educa,.a Washington Woman.

Tho e,.,. n,,.,,;a. ..,.;,,
no nrse ,nihg whicn strikes woman
=. wv New iork OF Chicago ON setthng
~ washington Is inc nuency with which
h,,s9 ono she meets SPEAKS French In
-. .no urawmg rooms sne enters she
-, Us wen DC IN raris' one goes i inss
ocoAsnoP' ana nan tne things she SIM
e., o ~ rei'ca' IL Is reaiiV oarrM h;nn
'Ho io'" az once !" Dr. De-, hor
" ~ Noo"p''' A'' 5ington
e'oio " " t'a' tter ~
"oi'ie' ''-lN g. 40 A
c "i veg, -''l if,A-1 ,lish.
WIZ. .'NN.f t.ta eHlH" .tt
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-06-16

State of Vermont, Windham Co, Court, March
Term, 1893.
Little 4 Co. EWhpreas at tho nresent tprm