The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-17
Sifterlets-ShOrt and Snappy.

ganize full regiment of Statesmen.out.
ofa.job.
Fitting square pegs into round holes
is an easy job compared to Presidential
cabinet making.
The prayer Of the political old maids,
if spoken aloud would sound something
like: "Ow for government job; any
thing so it's government job"
DR.. McGlynu is very unrepentant
pardoned man, if his recent remarks are
correctly quoted.
Democrats charge Judge jackson
with being republican, and the repub-
licans say he is democrat. The pop
ulists have not up to this time expressed
any opinion of his politics.
There is no doubt about the inten-
tions of the Brooklyn girl who took
poison and fred four shots from a re-
volver into her left breast. The early
spring flowers will bloom on her grave.
If the Minnesota legislature passes
that bill making it against the law to
wear hoop-skirts in that State every
woman in the State will have one as
soon as it can be bought.
The people of this country will know
more about Hawaii in the next few
weeks than ever before, and knowledge
is always desirable.
The killing of that amateur pugilist
in New Orleans might be duplicated
many times among both professionals
and amateurs without serious detriment
to the welfare of the rising generation.
The House committee was appoint
ed to get at the facts in the Panama
canal scandal, not to suppress them
by holding secret sessions. Do you
hear, gentlemen
The number of men of whom their
friends say che can 60 into the cabi-
net if he wants to" is already larger
than the membership of the cabinet
California will for the first time be
represented in the U. S. Senate BY
native when Senator White takes his
seat
The hard winter has had no appar.
ent effect upon the crop of bank
wreckers.
Preachers of the Ideal.
Among the numerous distinguished |
persons who have died within the last |
year are three whose loss brings painful
ly to mind the question, Who will take
their places? There remain gifted men
not few, III their fields as great as the |
ones gone before, but they are not the |
same, for these three in particular |
preached and sang of the moral ideal
Of the life of noble exaltation and aspira-
lion. The three were Tennyson, Whit
tier and Phillips Brooks.
In the preaching of Bishop Brooks, in
the songs Of Tcnnyson in all his best |
years, and CT Whittier all his life, there |
was that thrilling, exalted quality which |
for little time lifts a man out Of the |
dusty, hurried atmosphere of every day
and .lows Him how mean and COM
r,onplsce Our ordinary thoughts are,
how lofty and kindly our human life |
may become when each soul is moved |
by noble aspiration. Humanity would |
destroy itself and perish off the earth |
without such teachers and such inspired |
singers to keep before its view the best |
and grandest side of its nature.
Tie world is never quite left without |
these marvellous teachers and singers.
Mans fate would be too dark If that |
wero SO. Thcre are still preachers, more
or less widely known, who strive with
out ceasing 10 lift their hearers up to the |
plane of the perfect humanity. But |
where are the poets of the noble ideal?