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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION
Kemp's Balsam stop, the cough at once.
Here's Richness.

1t was Brillat Savarin who said that
the Americans had hundred religions
and only one gravy. But it seems that we
are to have even one more religion than
we have already. Alexander Russell
Webb, formerly United States consul at
Manila. has been converted to Moham-
mechanism during his residence among
the followers of the prophet. Full of the
zeal of a new convert, he has undertaken
nothing less than the upsetting of our
whole batch of a hundred religions and
turning us from the error of our ways to
Mohammedanism. He is appealing to
the sons of Islam to help him, and has al
ready collected over s25 900 to aid him in
spreading the true faith in the United
States.
Send the Koran to the heather! That
is Webb's rallying cry, and the heather
are we of the United States. For the re-
mainder of his life Son-of-the-tr ue-faith
Webb will spend his time converting the
heather of the United States. Webb has
a tough job on his hands. Mohammed
preached that the deepest hell was for
hypocritcs. If Webb can succeed in con-
vincing certain Americans of the truth of
this, then we welcome him. Further, we
suggest that he begin his labors with the
grain stock brokers of Chicago and make
them pray five times day, as is required
of every follower of the prophet.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

There is one chair of education that
ought to be established in colleges now,
even If we have to demolish the Greek
course and turn the professor Of rhet-
oric into hod carrier to make room
for it. That is professorship of
finance. The currency and banking
question is of such vital Importance
that half of our dark age college learn
ing might well be abandoned to give It
room. What nation shall do about
paper money, what plan it should adopt
when one of the precious metals be-
comes scarce and the other plentiful
shall state OF national banks or the gov
crnment itself issue paper money?-these
are matters not to be settled by political
party orators. The trouble is that no
man lives today who is wise enough to
fill such chair of finance, even If one
were established in college. The
French are the best writer's on financial
science and economy. But the American
professorship of finance is one that could
not be filled by man who had got his
knowledge out of books. He would
have to take view of the actual situa-
ton in his own country and the world
Years of thought and study would then
be required to teach the subject in
diligently.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
Fuel Gas.

Speed its use! In private houses in
Pittsburg it is hard matter to get do
nestle help on any terms where coal is
burned instead of fuel gas. Servants
will not carry coal up and ashes down
and attend to dusty, sooty furnaces, and
small blame to them. Although the
price of fuel gas has gone up in Pitts
burg, still, rather than pass through the
purgatory of coal, ashes and dust, ma
jority of householders prefer to pay the
advanced prce.
They are right, In the cramped quar-
tiers to which mankind are reduced i'll a
town house or fiat coal burning in the
household is the one crying nuisance
that must be abolished. 1t has been
hoped that electricity would show the
way out of the domestic coal pit, but
electricity does not seem in hurry
about it.
Meantime cannot some wise inventor
devise a fuel gas that can be manufac
tured from coal or petroleum? Since the
fuel gas has become higher priced in
Pittsburg some of the factories there are
successfully using petroleum as fuel.
But all attempts to do this in the house
hold result in sooty, i'll smelling failure.
Steam heat for warmth and cooking is a
failure, owing to the expense of it for
ordinary households, and besides it does
not abolish the horrible smoke and ash
heap. While electricity yet tarries give
us, manufactured from coal, a fuel gas
that will heat our houses and cook our
food at a price ordinary people can pay.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
The Profession of Politics.

There is very little money and not
much fun in politics as a trade, in the
Judgment Of Ex-senator George F. Ed
munds, who writes of this subject in
The Forum. Forty years Of oHpeiieuce
enables the ex-senator to speak by the
hook.
He says every body ought to be a
politician to the extent of understand
ing political systems and 1.-THE substan-
tial character and probable effect of
laws" Beyond that it is well for the
average citizen to give politics wide
berth, particularly potboiling politics.
1t is practically impossible for man by
"honest politics" to provide living for
his family. A political career has at
fractions and destinations, but it must
never be INDUCED in to the exclusion of
some private occupation whereby the
politician earns his living, unless he
have an ample fortune. The lest
political career is before the man who
earns his living in some honest occupa-
ton and Is in contact and sympathy
with his fellow lnen in tits respect The
last, low dowrest of all politicians is
the fellow who looks to public Office as
trade or profession. Such a politician
is menace to community and ought
TO be abolished.
There arc a few men who enter po-
Iitical life to advocate some principle
and influence their fellow men to adopt
it. Such men require infinite strength
of soul and patience, and unless they
have these and are made Of sterner
stuff than most they will be apt to look
back on their careers with regret, if not
with bitterness. These are the men,
however, who move the world.
Don't 60 into politics for living, says
the ex-senator. 1t is bitter way of
farming it. But if man has compe-
tence already, and loves power and ex-
citement, the political field is an invit-
Ing one. Mr.. Edmunds writes:
The patriotic citizen who applies himself t.
the study and practice of politics must have
his worldly competence already assured, or he
must starye or be tempted to forget or disregard
his patriotism one of the essential elements OF
wlicl IS honesty ard pursue politics as a trade
from Shich personal and pecuniary gain is to
be derived. in the first case. if the man with q
competence becomes politician it is from the
patriotic motive pure and simple of doing
good to his fellow men, without selfish ambi-
ton Of his own, or he follows it from a desire
to attain station and place of power, or his
ultimate motive may be blending Of both OF
these.
II he be the rare individual who pursues
politics from the first mentioned motive and
hspires to nothing but to study and under
itand the institutions of his country and to
make known his knowledge and the reason OF
It to his fellow citizens. he is indeed living
beneficence. AID the more of such politicians
country can Jossess the better.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
Good for Fat People.

We have the authority of Edwin
Checkley, physiculturist, that men wear
corsets frequently when the increasing
size of the body below the belt gives in
dications of what Checkley mildly calls
advancing maturity" But anybody
may get rid Of that accumulation of fat
which is dead give away as to ones
age, the physiculturist says. The fat
gathers over the region about the waist
because that part of the body gets no
exercise.
The remedies proposed for taking
away the fat deposit are-first, deep and
slow breathing; second, working the
muscles of the abdominal region in and
out. AS to the breathing, the fat person
who would be thin must stand erect,
place his hands upon the front Of his
body below the waist and breathe as
long and deep breaths as possible. "fill-
ing the Lungs to their lowest extremi-
tics" Then cxhale the air slowly. Do
tbs ii1 minutes at time. morning and
evening, and several times day if pos
siblc.
For aggravated cases of fairness there
are several exercises, the principal one
of which is q sort of wabbling move
ment of the protuberant part of the body
and is described as follows: 'Standing
or sitting erect upon hard bottomed
chair, proceed to draw the abdomen in
and out by muscular contraction five
minutes at time three times day."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
Blaine's Personal influence.

In personal influence and magnetism
no Republican statesman has ever
equaled Blaine. No Republican states
man ever aroused the Wild thrilling en-
thusiasm among his followers that he
did, from the old "plumed knight" days
in 1876 down to the Minneapolis con-
vention in 1902. But the power of arous-
ing enthusiasm does not always mean
success.
The monuments that will preserve
Blaine's name in lasting remembrance
among his countrymen are three-reci-
procity, pan-Americanism and his great
book, Twenty Years of Congress" If
he had let politics alone and devoted
his splendid powers to literature, h.
would have perhaps achieved more il
lustrious fame than he will as it is. As
far back as when he was Garfeld's sec
rotary of state he evolved the pan-Amer-
lean idea-a closer union Of commerce
and friendship between the United
States on the one side and the Latin
American republics on the other, and
arbitration of all the differences arising
among those republics instead of the de-
structive wars that have hindered their
development. Whatever results flow
from the pan-American congress will be
due to Blaine and largely to his tre-
mendous personal influence among the
delegates.
The other Blaine idea was reciprocity.
The original reciprocity scheme sub
United by him to congress when he was
secretary of state provided that 'tli,
president of the United States shall have
power to open the ports of the United
States to any or all of the products of the
other American nations and colonies
whenever and for SO long as they shall
admit to their ports duty free or at re-
duced rates an equivalent amount of the
natural and manufactured products OF
the United States" While the reci-
procity law finally passed by congress
did not go so far as Blaine wished, it has
opened to lis the trade of six of the Span
ish-American republics and Cuba and
several other colonies under more favor
able conditions than are allowed to any
European nation. Populations including
40,000,000 of people are embraced in the
nations with which these commercial
treaties of reciprocity exist.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
FOR SALE.

NY 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 s. acres more or less, suit
ably divided into pasture, tilla9e 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 hennery and other out
buildings all in best of repair, running
water 10 house and barn; also nice well
in cellar. all the land lies TO the south,
and is in high state of cultivation
SAID farm is three miles from So. Lon
dontlerry aud Twelve from Manchester
aud near school. Fam cuts hay enough
10 winter fifteen head of cattle beside
team aud can be bought low this fall on
account of poor health.
For further particulars enquire of s.
NJ. Holden, So. Londonderry, OF the sub
scriber on the premises.
C. v. BRYANT.
Winhall, VT. Oct. 10, 80.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
Nonseasioai Textbooks.

A successful Young woman journalist
was lately telling how she got her edu-
cation in newspaper writing. an the
textbook of rhetoric at school," said she,
1--WE were taught that every piece OF
writing should have first an introduce
ton, then a body, then conclusion.
Full Of this idea ! began writing for
newspapers. The first thing the editor
did was TO strike out my introduction.
The next thing he did was to strike out
the conclusion. He left only the body
and cut that down till not much was
left of it. Now l find that the rhetoric
learned at school did me more harm
than good"
The experience of the young lady Is
that of all college educated individuals
who undertake journalism. The college
graduate is nothing if not modestly
confident of his own ability to write
anything from an able editorial on
finance to brilliant piece Of war cor
respondence describing great battle
in scientific military terms. He finds
his mistake when he enters actual jour-
nalistic life, and discovers that after two
years of chasing fires and police court
items he has scarcely as yet touched the
outer fringe of real journalism. He has
far less confidence in his ability to write
an able editorial than he had before he
had ever done line of newspaper work.
The first thing person entering
either journalism or literature is obliged
| to do is to unload most of the rubbish
of grammar and rhetoric he learned at
school. If with the practiced eye of
through the textbook of rhetoric or lit
I erature he finds it volume of nonsense
mostly. The textbooks of grammar and
rhetoric contain page after page defin-
ing things that do not need definition,
making the pupil stuff his head with
numbering rules that are much better
left off.
The way to write is to write. Plunge
into the middle of what you have to say.
Study carefully the words you use. See
that they express exactly your meaning;
no more and no less. If you can give a
humorous, pathetic, picturesque turn to
your thoughts, so much the better.
Make your language as striking as pos
sible without offending the moral or
aesthetic sense. But no rules of rhetoric
lin heavens name, no rules of rhetoric!
You will unconsciously work out for
yourself your own rules, and those are
the only ones that suit your case.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
CONGRESS and Immigration.

In his annual report Surgeon General
Wyman, of the marine hospital service,
recommends that immigration into this
country be stopped absolutely for one
year beginning Jan. l, 1898. He bases
this recommendation on the opinion of
sanitary Investigators that unless immi-
grafton is thus stopped our certain doom
will be visitation of cholera next sum-
mer. This will sweep the country and
wreck the Worlds fair. 1t may be that
even with this precaution we shall not
escape, though it is hoped we may.
1t is certain that on this and other
grounds there is growing throughout
the country a powerful feeling against
such floods of foreign immigration as
have poured upon our shores in the past
ten years. 1t is not so much the num-
Der Of the immigrants as their character
that is exciting the opposition. The
drainage pipes of Europe and Asia have
apparently been emptied upon this
United States SO far as population is
concerned. If we do shut our gates
against the stream, the countries of
Europe will have only themselves to
blame for sending us such class.
On the other hand, if immigration is
suspended it will undoubtedly bankrupt
some of the steamship companies, which
would be matter of general regret. Al
ready some of them are threatening
that if we stop immigration through our
seaports they will withdraw their lines
to Canadian ports, and the stream of
people will flow to Canada AS soon as
they spend all the money they bring
with them the immigrants will drift
over the border into the United States,
and we shall be forced to accept them
jim worse plight than if we had taken
them at first. However, this does not
follow necessarily.
An almost irresistible pressure will be
brought to bear on congress to take ac-
ition in this important matter. The
Egreatest good to the present citizens Of
the United States ought to be the only
consideration in deciding the question.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

Louis Gathmann, mechanical en-
gineer of Chicago, has invented q new
torpedo. 1t is discharged in the first
place from gun, then flies through the
air for my desired distance, after which,
if it is wanted to strike under water, it
will sink slightly and travel to the
weakest part of the enemy's vessel and
explode, its inventor says. Heclaims that
it will perform its duties of destruction
either above the water or under it, and
any merchant vessel can be armed with
it readily. The torpedo itself has wings
of steel to uphold il and rudder to steer
itself by. We shall have so many ter
rible inventions of destruction that after
awhile nations will be afraid to go to
war any more, knowing that at the first
onslaught whole armies and navies will
mutually blow each other up.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

The most honored as well as pictur-
esque individual present at the open
ing of the United States senate this ses-
sion was the assistant doorkeeper, Cap
tain Isaac Bassett, with his white hair
and old fashioned broadcloth garments.
So much has happened to the country in
the last thirty years that it now seems
century since Daniel Webster OBJ
tanned for bright, graceful boy named
Isaac Bassett an appointment as page in
the United States senate. In fact it was
sixty-one years ago, and Isaac Bassett
has been present at the opening of every
congress for thirty years. He is the one
individual left in the senate chamber
who was there sixty years ago. All the
rest have changed, most Of them two and
three times over.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

A curious II not wholly pleasing spec.
tacle for the typical American, especial.
ly the typical American ont Of job, Is
the aristocratic occupant of splendid
turnout to be seen on upper Broadway
every pleasant afternoon. An open
landau, drawn by two handsome dark
bay horses, elegantly caparisoned; an
athletic looking coachman In light drab,
with red trimmings, and occasionally a
young footman In the same livery. That
Is the turnout, and 1t Is quite as swagger
thing as Is to be seen In that line about
New York, The carriage is worth not
less than &, 800, and the horses and gold
more, while the coschman and his com.
panion would have brought cool thou.
sand apiece before the war, though they
are really white and very English, you
know.
The occupant of this swell establish.
ment is thin, consumptive looking in
dividual called by experts in his kind q
skye terrier. Silvered DER with spiky
hair of no particular color, his little
beady eyes glistening from the recesses
Of his moppy weakened countenance, his
nose and every other portion of his
anatomical system being invisible, this
insignificant parsonage sits alone on the
back seat, II not grand, at least gloomy
and peculiar.
Within the physical possibilities not
remote from the butchers trade he
would probably be worth ten cents. For
my own purposes would unhesitatingly
say ten cents bunch would be an ex-
travagant price for such as he. Yet it
takes five thousand dollar turnout and
an able bodied coschman and footmai,
to give this poor little "cYitter"-the pet
pup Of some royal American family-his
daily airing. York Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
Jay Gould's Will.

Jay Gould has made a notable depar-
ture from the methods of the Astors and
Vanderbilts in the making of his will.
John Jacob Astor the first and old Com
modore Vanderbilt bequeathed the bulk
of their millions to their sons, leaving
the daughters with merely ample means
of living during their lives. 1t was the
theory of both that women should not
be allowed any part in the management
of great estates. The methods of these
two founders of the family fortunes have
been in the main followed by their de-
scendants.
But Jay Gould's will divides his es-
tates with exact evenness among his six
children, sons and daughters alike.
George Gould indeed gets $4,000, 900
more than the other children, but this
his father considered as his just wages
for devoiing himself with single hearted
enthusiasm to the advancement of the
eluer Gould's fortunes for twelve years.
AS an offset to this 100000, how
ever, Miss Helen Gould, the eldest
daughter, gets outright the house on
Fifth avenue, with all its contents, and
the use until Frank Gould comes of age
of the country house at Irvington be.
.ides. She is also to receive $4,000 a
month more than the other children tc
enable her to keep home for the Goulds
yet under age. And George and Heller
are jointly appointed guardians of the
minor children. In the making of his
will the greatest fnancier of modern
times dealt out exact justice to all his
children and showed besides a singu
larly fine perception of the whole situa
tinn
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
of old and young awaiting the bestowal

of old and young awaiting the bestowal
of costly gifts,
But in the background OF even this
pleasant picture is another--the families
of the poor, the labyrinths of wretched
homes and teeming tenement houses,
the prisons and hospitals, They are not
forgotten. The rich man has spared
from his abundance that the hard pres.
sure of poverty may for the moment BIO
lightenod, and charitable hands deal out
the stores of good things that make one
and all feel as if the spirit of Christmas
was indeed the angel of the day bring
ing the old time message, peace on
earth and good will to men,"
f. G.. DE FoNTAINE.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

1t required nearly ten years to build
the first ten miles of the great railroad
up the Congo river. But that was the
worst part of the work, and now that it
is finished the rest of the 235-mile rail-
way around the Congo cataracts will be
completed rapidly. This railway connects
the upper and the lower Congo river,
hitherto separated for purposes of COM
merce by the impossible cataracts. Aft
er the road shall be finished fabulous
fortunes will be grasped by somebody,
first probably by the Society of the Upper
Congo, that built the railroad
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
WATCHES,
WATCHES !!

GENTS GOLD WATCHES. Filled cases, warranted Is
years, dust proof back and beze wnder and
SETTER patent cap pull bow sunk seconds engraved
plain, seven eweled Waham Elein movement war
raned with good usage to keep time Regular
tail price everywhere from SIS to $1S Our special offer
Only S12.
HS7Other styles of gents gold watches furnished at
conespondingly low pricesead
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

At any rate, when the history of the
Nicaragua canal comes to be written,
ta-re will be no disgraceful story to be
reid Of buying the votes of United States
ST. tors and representatives, as hap
pencil in case of the hapless Panama
canal in France. Perhaps that is why
the Nicaragua canal enterprise hangs
fire so long, because there is no attempt
to buy votes for government subsidy.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

"We are Jews, not Hebrews or
Israelites, says the editor of Jewish
Tidings. There is an impression that
it is courtesy to call us Hebrews, thus
implying that there is some stigma
attached to the name of Jew. The
Tidinss is constantly seeking to remove
this impression.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13
Gents
SilXcrOid Watch.

Open face. three ounce case. warranted to
wear and keep is co'or, stem wind and set.
Waitham or Elgin full plate movement, safety
piuiou and expansion balance, warranted 10
keep correct time it properly used. Usua y
sod for seven or c2h, dollars. This IS Inc
watch that has recen,ly been sold SO low in
Brsttleboro, dealers advertising them a, 50. so.
Price to our patrons only $50.
&S~For sI.5o will sell a popular styled,
rolled-plate chain, warranted for FIVE years,
usually sold for $500.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

Mary Lease Is said to be dead against
the swallow tail coat, But we would
D. u seven dollar silk hat against a new
huAnet thasif she went to Washington
as United States senator she herself
would appear at the first swell reception
in swallow tail coat or whatever the
f,leinine equivalent of it is. High life
in Washington is temptations, Mary,