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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

Emile lola, in a curious article emit
lied "How Folks Marry" expresses ex-
treme disapproval and disgust of the
French marriage system. He contrasts
with a good deal of rough power the
different lives led after the age of 10
years old Of the boys and girls who till
that time had been playmates and lead
ing practically the same existence. Aft
er this happy natural sort Of life the
baths of the brother and sister widely
diverge. The son goes to the lycee,
which has been described as an "inky
Styx," where some may swim, but many
drown, while the daughter is either
brought up in a tender sheltered home
or sent to good educational convent,
where she is, if possible, even more pro-
tected from outside evil influences tho
when under her mothers wing.
NJ lola makes it quite clear that he
leans to the American system of educa-
ton. 1t would be interesting to know
what course he pursues with his own
children, two bright faced little people
who were much in evidence at the mar
rage of Leon Daudet to Jeanne Hugo
London Globe.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
ODDS AND ENDS.

If you would be as happy as child,
please one.
A sisters watchful care-can anything
be more tender?
Don't overload your rooms with furni-
ture and bric-a-brac.
The Argand lamp was the invention of
Anne Argand in 1889.
Who boils his pot with chips makes
his broth smell of smoke.
The father of Sir Robert Peel, the
statesman, was day laborer.
The happiest husband always knows
just little less than his wife does.
A southern Oregon farmer last year
made 50 $50 from 10 acres raising prunes.
Ten confederate stamps recently car
ried package from CRANKY, Mass, to
Boston.
An Illinois company is erecting works
for the manufacture of aluminium cook
ing utensils.
The only carp ever caught in the Mis-.
sissippi river was taken the other day by
| a Wisconsin man.
The origin of the geysers at Sonoma
CAL, is supposed to be volcanic crater
filed by landslide.
Nineteen of the pensioners of the wal
of 1879 are over 100 years old. six Of
| whom live in Vermont.
1t won't help your own crop any tc
look over the fence and count the weeds
in your neighbours garden.
Cocaine is more insidious than NOR
phine, fastens more readily upon its vic
tim and holds him in at least as tight 8
| grasp.
Let the world have whatever sport:
and rocreations please them best, pro
vided they befollowed with discretion
Burton.
A travelling telephone, which can b.
taken to any room required in larg,
Office building mt a moments notice, is {
recent idea.
A train on the Great Northern rail
road ran into a large herd of antelope.
near Blaclfoot, Mon, recently. Sever
were killed, and the engine was disabled
so that another had to be obtained tt
take the train on its iournev.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
News and Notes.


Rabbits are becoming serious nui.
sance in some parts of Kansas,
Good words are said for both the Kan,
sas and Lovett raspberries.
From the southern and middle states
rome good reports of the liberia peach,
The tent caterpillar and fall web worm
can be easily destroyed by spraying,
1t is claimed that the great meadows
of Warren county, N, j., make luxuri.
ant celery gardens,
Many stock growers are now feeding
split corn, by which is meant corn on
the ear, split into slivers lengthwise Of
the cob. thus utilizing the whole corn
product of fodder, grain and cob,
The jack, iennet and mule breeders
and dealers are invited to show at the
| Worlds fair these animals that "can dc
more work on less feed. and that never
,, die with disease and seldom with old
age" Intending exhibitors wishing fur
Their information and premium lists
should apply to W. |. Buchanan, chief
of department of agriculture, Chicago.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

The London Illustrated News declares
that young Englishmen read nothing but
accounts of prize fights and sporting
events; that it is humiliating in the ex-
IRENE to contrast them with young
Americans, who, according to this au-
thority, are well up in modern literature
and familiar with the best of current
poetry and fiction. This is gratifying to
our national vanity. STILL in the inter-
ests of strict truth, it must be confessed
that, so far as familiarity with present
day literature goes even American
youths don't know enough to hurt them.
They read the sporting page of the news
paper with much more interest than the
literary page.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
We TELL YOU

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 $4,000 a 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 1t, 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
grave mistake if you fail to give 1t trial at once.
II 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 few
hours work will often equal a weeks wages.
Whether you are old or young, man or woman, it
makes no difference, = do as we tell you and sue
will meet you at the very start. Neither
experience or capital necessary. Those who work
for us are rewarded. Why not write toby for
full particulars, free f. c. ALLEN & CO,
Box No. 4?0, Augusta, Me.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
Dumas on Husband Hunting.

The most scathing bit of literature
which has appeared recently is the letter
written by Dumas the younger to a
French girl who sent to newspaper
complaint that she found no husband,
although she had been educated for
marriage on the most approved plan.
Dumas replies that her letter shows her
to be utterly heartless, looking to mar
riage only as a means of support, and on
man merely as creature designed to
maintain her in luxury when she is fit
for nothing useful ON the earth.
Dumas himself evidently does not go
in very strongly for marriage. The con-
clusion of his published letter is calcu-
lated to set both girls and the mothers
who hunt husbands for them to thinking:
You don't think work is respectable. You
are mistaken. This old world of ours is going
to pieces, and q new society will arise based on
equality and labor for all. Do not count on
men, young girls; count on yourselves. Do not
despise art science, industry, commerce, which
represent life and are the basis of all society.
Seek in all four what we men have found in
them-a real value that is lacking in your
gowns, soirees and dances. That is the best
way to find husband, if you still want one
when you amount to something, which is not
certain, for your present great desire to get
married is only the result of your education,
which has incapacitated you from doing any
thing else. 1t is quite likely that when youI
own work has secured for you your independ-
ence men will appear in different light to
you, and that you will prefer to remain SINGLE
as is often the case with us men.
The majority of women, not to say ALL always
say, IF were a man, | should never marry
which shows what they think of marriage. No
do not worry about husbands. Work, young
girl; paint pictures like Rosa Bonheur, write
books like Nine Sand, act like Sarah Bern
hardt, philosophize like Heloise, translate like
Mme Dacier, make pianos like Nine. Erard
conduct a store lihO rrf,-.a- De..vfvuuft Neltner
of these occupations is easy, maybe, but it is
less tiresome than this eternal hunting after
husbands and less humiliating than not finding
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

That old established cough remedy
Downs Elixir, still mole than holds its
own in the public estimation, despite
sharp and active competition. 1t is a
"home remedy, and in this locality needs
no words of praise from US, so well and
favor. bly, known is it. 1t is the standard
remedy for coughs, colds and all throat
troubles. with great numbers of our peo-
ted recommendation Of it speaks volumes
in its Burlington, Vt, Free
Press, January, 26, 1892.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

Experiments made at several of the
experiment stations with removing tas-
sells from corn vary as to results. At the
Cornell station in 1S90a marked increase
was observed, while in 1891 there APP
peared mo marked gain from removing
10000 i ....:fo..rrioy in 81 ain or
loss in yield with respect to treated and
untreated work" Experiments at the
Illinois station practically showed neither
gain nor loss in corn production, At the
Kansas station removing the tassels pro
dnced marked increase while the same
operation performed at the Maryland
and Nebraska stations resulted i'll loss.
In 1891 at the Delaware station removing
the tassels appeared to increase the crop
I per cent
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

In the college news we find it reported
that at a certain famous New England
institution the Photographic society is
making desperate final struggle for ex-
istence, while one more attempt is to be
made to resurrect the dead Society of
Electrical Engineering. We are glad to
observe, however, that the football team
is in splendid trim, with perfect organi-
cation, and that the athletic club of the
institution is all ready for the running
high jump and the class team races.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
THE

1t viii astonish some persons to know
that the Oldest temperance association
In America is the Congressional Temper.
ance society of Washington. 1t has been
in existence so years, Who would have
suspected it2
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
sSSiGsEAsR
FlE.LI.1saNp GkRpEN
WHEAT CULTURE.
Tho Marvellous Progress OF Wheat Growing
In This Country.

Tho Marvellous Progress of Wheat Growing
In This Country.
According to Statistician Dodge of the
national department of agriculture ut
Washington, the Dakotas now produce
more wheat than was grown in the
United States so years ago. The exports
of last year We're greater than the aggre-
gate product 25 years ago The yield
per acre of old lands is increasing and
that of new lands decreasing, and new
wheat lands are annually brought into
cultivation. New England in the few
fields cultivated obtains more per acre
than the richest soils of the west. The
yield declines fastest in the newest and
richest soils, not because of soil exhaus-
ton, but because of its fairness in stimu-
lating the growth Of weeds.
The census of 1880 made an average
yield of wheat of 10, bushels; that of
1890, when the season was far less favor
able and prospects apparently much
worse, gives a yield of about IA bushels
per acre, With good cultivation and
fertilization it shNlld be increased to 20
bushels. Individual farms in Maine re-
, port from 30 to 40 bushels per acre; some
in New York report 32 or more, and
many in Illinois and North Dakota re-
turn 20 and 80 bushels per acre. The
rate of yield could readily be increased
one-half.
The wheat crop of 1892, according to
the national department report, is slight
~ above an average one in yield per acre.
and in volume has only been exceeded in
1891, though the crops of 1880 and 1889
nearly equaled it. The area is estimated
at 3S, 554 ,430 acres, producing 515, 940, 900
bushels, valued on the farm at $322, ILL.,
$751; The yield per acre is 1874 bushels,
and the value per bushel 62.4 cents The
largest yield of the year 1899 was 27.e
bushels in Montana on 1924 acres. The
next in order is 25.2 bushels in the Indian
Territory. The next lower is $3.50 in Ne
vada, and Maine averages nearly as
much--237 bushels. In the west the
largest rate was 10 bushels in Indiana.
1t should be understood that these are
averages of states and not of individual
farms. some of which are much higher
explains the authority quoted.
The progress of wheat growing was
stimulated greatly by the crop failures
of western Europe prior to 1880. TWEEN
ty years ago no crop had attained hall
the values of that of 1891. The average
production of the decade between 1876
and 1879 was 3l2, 152.72S bushels. The
average of the next decade was 449, sos,
$50. That Of the past three years il
sos. 997 900 bushels.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

Electricity has been successfully used
to put to sleep person who was suffer
ing the fortunes of neuralgia. A physi-
clan has also been able to produce local
anasthesia by mealA of electricity to the
extent of opening felon on PATIENTS
finger without pain to him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
Turkeys.

AS compared with chickens, few tur-
keys are reared by the average farmer.
The usual mortality in turkey chicks is,
under average treatment, large-so large
as to eat up all the profits. A CORE
spondent of the New York World writes
My object is to tell how large per
cent of each brood Matched may be
reared, In the first place, as turkey
chicks, up to nearly or quite months
old, are very delicate, it is absolutely es-
sential to provide special shelter for the
young broods during this critical period
Wet and dampness must be avoided.
The turkey hen, as rule, lays about 1S
chicks by ne old time method is in the
%2pAs 9t NaS sRa SfHpe The assda TURIN
most cases to remove her daily from her
nest to be fed Care should be taken
that she is returned to it inside of 20
minutes. Besides this daily food it is
well to keep water and soft food always
within her reach.
The turkey chick breaks the shell from
the Goth to the Goth day. The day but
one before the Matching is expected the
hen ought to be plentifully fed and an
ample supply of water and food placed
where she can reach it. Then do not
disturb her again until the chicks are
out. Do not take the chicks away from
the nest until all are out. Turkey chicks
are very stupid about learning how to
eat, so considerable patience is required
at the first in this matter The very best
feeding for the first week is hard boiled
eggs chopped fine, in which is mixed a
little minced dandelion, when the latter
can be obtained. After this feed bread
crumbs and little meal in which is also
some egg,
At the end of three weeks, small grain
boiled potato--in fact, the diet usually
given to other poultry-may be fed. By
judicious feeding. the first great danger
which is a tendency to diarrhea, isavoid
ed The second danger to be guarded
against, as have already remarked, is
cold and damp A wetting is fatal to
young turkey chicks. So fully convinced
am of this fact that supply their
drinking water in such way that they
cannot wet themselves in it. never let
the chicks out on grass run until all
danger from dew is past. Their exercise
is taken most of the time on small
run nicely sanded.
At weeks to months old the chicks
become poults, when the red, naked pro-
tuberances about the throat have fairly
developed From this time they are
hardy and may be left to their natural
inclinations with safety, SO far as their
general health is concerned. Since
have made up my mind to give the extra
care and attention described in the fore
going during the first two months after
Matching have had fairly remunerative
returns from my turkeys. To readers
who are willing to do the same would
say, add a small flock of turkeys to your
poultry yard. Where, however, special
provisions cannot or will not be made for
turkey chicks cannot advise turkeys as
profitable fowls.
Our most experienced beekeepers con
fess they have been oftentimes disaFr
pointed in their efforts to confine swarm
ing within reasonable limits. q. Nj. Doc
little and other well known apiarisis
practice cutting out all queen cells but
one eight days after the first swarm has
issued.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
Referred to the Stakeholder.

a girl in Wasco bet kiss against dol
lar with the editor of the Wasco News
that Harrison would be elected. The
stakeholder of the dollar was homely
old maid, and when he claimed the kiss
from the girl he was coolly informed that
the stakeholder held both bets and would
cheerfully deliver them ON demand
Portland Oregonian.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
No Harm If the Bride Made No Mistake

Twin brothers reside at Warsaw. They
resemble each other closely. One was
married few days ago, a reception was
given, and numerous young friends were
present. Many young ladies in Offering
congratulations addressed the wrong
brother and showered him with kisses
Kendall Sun,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

He-Do you love me, darling?
She-Sometimes think l do, and then
again, when you have on that hideous,
baggy, new overcoat, doubt the strength
of my affection.-Exchange.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

Lanes Medicine Moves the Bowels each
Day. In order to be healthy this is Necessary.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
LANPU.EAR'S
LONDONDERRY MARKET,
Peabody House Basement,
So. Londonderry, vt.
Good Variety of meats, nice
Iy cut and prompt servOcc.
j. O. LANPHEAR, Proprietor.

ESTATE OF JOHN G. WALKER.
STATE OF VERMONT,
Westm nster IS.
BY the Probate Court for said district, to all
persons interested In the estate of John g.
Walker late of Londonderry in said district
decea ed, greeting. You are hereby notifei
that this Court will decide upon the allowance o.
the account of John 6. Walker administrator on
said estate, and decree distribution thereof 10
the persons entitled, at the session thereof TO he
held at the inn of Thos. Evans in Townshend
on the oh day of April A. d. 1873 when ard
where you may be heard in the premises, If you
see cause Tina II. Allbee Register.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

Winhall, VT, Oct. 10, '92.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17

Our most experienced beekeepers con
fess they have been oftentimes disaFr
pointed in their efforts to confine swarm
ing within reasonable limits. g. Nj. Doc
little and other well known apiarists
practice cutting out all queen cells but
one eight days after the first swarm has
issued.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-16
! bert Slatto. the bran packer, was forced
to run through the flames to get ont. but

bert Slatto. the bran packer, was forced
to run through the flames to get out, but
was not severely injured. From the
mill, which is large six-story frame
structure, the fire communicated to the
120, ,000-bushel elevator twenty-five feet
west, and it, too, burned to the ground,
with some 10000 bushels of wheat. The
cooper shop, several hundred feet
northeast, was also totally DESTROYED
with all 1t contained, and even the dam
and Hume 1t was an exclusively water
power plant-were badly injured, while
at least one-quarter of the wagon
Drldge which spans the river just above
the dam was burned away. Within
three hours from the time the fire
first caught the entire plant was smok-
ing mass of ruins.
The mill was leased by the George
Illeston Milling company, of st. Cloud.
which has conducted it for the past two
years in connection with its large st.
Cloud mill. 1t was a 600-barrel plant,
and was run almost steadily at its high.
est capacity. The local manager was j.
5. Sutcliffe, and the employees number
from thirty to forty. The title to the
property was held by G. u. Wright,
president of the First National bank of
this city, as assignee of the original
Page Mill company, which went to the
wall through unfortunate deals in flour
about three years ago. The loss is a
severe blow to both the lessees and the
estate, for the loss is total, and the i'll
surance, while large, will not make it up.
The milling plant was insured in stock
companies through local agencies to
the amount of S27,75 The company
had $4,000 insurance on wheat, stock
and machinery.
The mill was built in 1885 at cost
OF 100000. The present value was
estimated at about $4,000 to $50, 600,
which is total loss. The George Tiles
ton loss is not much greater than the
insurance, except the indirect loss of
the stopping of the mill IN the middle
of the best season.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-16
Shin Scutt,er Caupht.

DULUTH, Mimi, Nov. 15.-An lmpor-
tant capture was made at Two Harbors
by Col. t. j. Sheehan, deputy United
States marshal for Minnesota. John A.
Scnurg was taken on board the steamer
Larina, of which he was engineer, on a
charge of willfully casting away the
steamer Nevada by opening the sea-
cock and pumping her full of water.
when he was acting as engineer of the
Nevada on Nov. IA. 1890. He was in
dicted IN Chicago i'll October, 1898, and
has elluded the authorities until now.
The owners of the Nevada got $4,000 of
insurance money, and it is claimed that
Schurg received $1,500 for the job.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-16
FOLLOWING REV. BRIGGS.
Rumpus Over Rev. III. N. Pringle
at AnOka.

ANoKA, Minn,, Nov. 15.-It was eX-
pected that Rev. II. n. Pringle would
be ordained by the Congregationalist
council at the church last night. But
he wasn't. His views did not meet the
orthodox requirements of the council of
ministers who sat on his case. They re-
ported as follows:
''In view of division of the council
in the matter of the eXpediency of or
daining Rev. II. n. Pringle, the council.
on account of the unsatisfactoriness of
his theological views, although greatly
admiring his earnest Christian character
and spirit, advise Rev. Pringle and the
church to postpone the services of the
ordination"
candidate, who has worked hard to fit
himself for the pulpit. Another council
will be called.
In conversation with some of the
trustees thi morning all were found to
be proud of the standing Of their pastor.
and said that he would be retained
here at any rate.
The council consisted of the follow
ing ministers:
Rev. Mr.. Wells and Rev. j. H. Nor
ley, minneapolis; Rev. Mr. Heath. st.
duI, heP. MI. hubert, Princeton:
Rev. Mr.. Smith, Monticello, and one
other.
Mr.. Prindle differed from the mem
berS Of the council in greater or less
degree. A reporter visited the candi-
date at his rooms this morning, and is
able to give the readers the differences,
which briefly are:
First-The divinity of Christ. He
was asked if Christ was God and God
was Christ i'll the same sense. He
answered "no," and stated that in his
mind Christ was certainly divine; but
all that was divine was not in Christ,
and cited authorities and the Bible to
substanUiate his idea.
Second-The inspiration of the Bible.
Mr.. Pringle thought that the Bible was
inspired through feeling, and, because
written through feeling, contained er-
rors. DR.. Briggs was quoted and some
others.
Tbird-In Atonement-The commit
tee thought atonement, in same sense
of an offering of an OK in Jewish
times, actually took away sin. This
met with some difference of opinion,
MIR. p. thinking that the atonement of
Christ was both in His life and death,
and that an atonement pleased God, but
did not take away sin.