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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

Ex-Vice President Levi P. Morton
hay be assured of the sympathy of the
country in the recent loss through fire
OF his great barn and SO of the finest
Guernsey cattle in the world. Nine
honses and 5000 fowls were also con-
sumed. Breeding Guernseys has been
Mr. Morton's pet fad A few of his COWS
were in the dairy test at the Worlds
fair. But all the rest, except eight, were
fastened in the barn. The herd was val
ned at $4,000 The fire was either in
cendiafy or was caused from tramp's
pipe, it is supposed. The being who
would deliberately roast to death dumb
animals is not human. He is a monster
Mr.. Morton was rich man, it is true,
and that may have been an offense in the
eyes of certain present day philosophers,
but the person does not live who charges
that he ever got dollar otherwise than
in the line of honorable business. More
over, bis hand was ever open to the needy.
There may be some who'remember even
now, short lived as gratitude is, that
during the last Irish famine he fitted out
at his own expense and sent to Ireland a
shiplead of food without making apy
fuss.about it. A strange coincidence it
y that less than year and half ago
Mr.. Morton's former cattle barn was
struck. by lightning and burned to the
ground on the very site on which the
new one was built.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
A Legal Transaction.
trnit Free Press;


A young man. who probably belong
ed to the class known as "hired mem
among the farmers called on Detroit
lawyer the other day and bargained
for "advice" for three silver dollars
and said:-
"Sposen | put SO in a savings
banky'
"Welly"
"Then l take pen and put 600
after the fgger S?'
"Welly'
"Would it be agin the lawY'
"No, not unless you tried to draw
s30OO."
"But Pm not going to try to. !
probably sha'nt ask even for the 49,"
"What the objectY'
Girl out my way. | love her. She
partly recips. She'd recip altogether
if she thought l had lots of sugar."
"And you'll show her the bank
boOkY
81 will"
"But after your marriage, what then?
How'll you ever EXPLAIN
easy as grease. Just tell her that
the bank has busted, and we must live
for each other alone. Law can't tech
me, eh?"
:'No."
"Good day! Got the SO in the bank
now, and here goes to nail the ciphers!
Mary Jane, thou art my own sweet
whippoorwill, and Pll bet a penful of
hogs agin an ox-yoke thou art~
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
u~.. H.,nA.a hxnxala.-..

From the region OF Ice and snsw, and
OF poaehers and smagglers, the cut
ter Rush comes. Her half-dozen guns
were In prime condition. not hav'
ing been fred ON the trip. and her hold
was not laden with the spells u seizure.
But abe brought Interesting news.
The most interesting result OF the trip
Of the Rush was visit paid by the
officers to Bogoslov Island, where Is the
famous volcano Of that name. In eonver'
satlon with one Of the officers an inter-
esting resume was obtained OF the dis
covsries and data CLEANED by the visit.
Bogosaov " sixty miles west southwest
OF 0oaaiasks. It originally consisted of
one Island with two craters, one Of
which arst spraDg into activity In 1872.
Last winter the island was he scene OF
. strange CONFUSION OF nature. The
second crater, now known as New
Bogoslov, became active. In some
powerful convulsion the sandspit which
had connected the two parts OF the
island was submer ed and one crater
was separated from the other by several
fathoms Of water. 1t Is thought that
during this oonvulsion changes occurred
In New Bogcslov below the water line;
that assures were opened, through which
volumes Of water made their way Into
the caldron within, This accounts for
the immense quantities OF steam which
the officers OF the Rush saw escaping
from the crater at distance Of fully
sixty miles.
or the two craters, New Bogoslov
offered the most interesting field OF
study to the officers of the Rush. They
ascertained the crater to be only 200 feet
N hpva tho caa laval Tho naak had dia-
appeared in the gaping hole. Along the
sides of the volcano large deposits Of
lava, pumice, ashes, and volcano rock
were seen. From assures on the level
earth springs Of boiling sulphur arose
to heights from seven to ten feet. The
officers planned an ascent to the crater
IA hazardous feat which could only be
attempted when a favorible wind car
ried the sitting volumes Of sulphurous
steam in single direction. When near
the mouth of the crater the footballs of
the officers were echoed within the vol
cano. On peeping over the edge OF the
mouth an impressive sight was wit
messed. Steam in endless quantities
rushed up from unknown depths, and
rumbling bubbling noises, like that Of
thunder, were heard. The air was i'm
pregnated with sulphur and near the
crater one could breathe only with diff
Guilty.
One of the most novel discoveries in
connection with the ascent was that the
ocean birds used the volcano Island as a
natural incubator for their young. Thou
sands Of gulls flew away at the approach
Of the Rush. They left behind them,
elong the sides of the valcano, eggs in
all stages Of development.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

Still another torpedo, this one the in
vention of an Austrian Count, Buano-
corsi by name, has made its appearance
in the European naval and military
world. According to official and private
reports of the trial of this instrument
they were eminently successful, giving
results superior even to those obtained
from the Whitehead. The motive power
is compressed air, acting directly from
reservoir upon the propeller without
any assistance or intervention from
machinery. The. propulsion is effected
by twin screws working inversely and
giving velocity greater and more
continuous, 1t is contended, than any
obtained in other torpedoes. One remark
able feature of this invention Is the fac
ulty of automatic guidance, which
enables it to avoid protective nets and
shields. and to dive any distance before
rising to give its blow.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
Gan nn American Keep a Hotel2

No, he cannot, answers with much
emphasis General Rush c. Hawkins in
The North American Review Ameri-
cans do not know how to cook for ho-
tel, and that is the most serious count in
his Indictment. lie himself undertook
summer campaign among country re-
sorts, visited fohrsof the best advertised
and highest priced ones within radius
of several hundred miles, and at length
returned to his city home in despair and
disgust, with his digestion, he had reason
to fear, irreparably damaged. AT one of
the resorts he tried a certain so called
fancy dish" which purported to be ca
pom and truf1ies. He found it was "a
sort of cold pressed hash of veal and
beef tongue, with not particle of capon
or even chicken in it, while the trsf1les
were composition of shining black
substance of the texture of isinglass. /"
In spite of the So to 81 a day charges
at our principal hotels, General Hawkins
has information from expert authority
that the total cost per head for food is
no more than 40 cents.
The cooks in our hotels are "a lot of
French, German, Italian and Irish upper
solutions who are no more cooks than
they are astronomers. The most they
ever did in the old country was to peel
potatoes and wash onions. Of the food
these fellows serve General Hawkins re-
marks:
1t is quite unnecessary TO write that not one
in ten of those products Of the kitchen named
In the bill of fare is properly prepared or de-
Gently served The vegetables are usually cold
and soggy, often stopped with nasty looking
and worse tasting sauce. The Joints are usual
ly tough and cold. The flesh made dishes (en-
trees), with high sounding French names, nei-
Their taste nor smell like anything we have
ever seen before. The sweets are often the
better part of the dinner, but the fruits, in the
majority Of instances, are the cheapest and
poorest that can be found.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

In Chicago these is a woman's hotel
that so far is a success. The great expo
sition overshadows everything else. and
lady visitors who come sightseeing and
have no responsibilitysof getting up the
show accept things as they find them.
Thewomans hotel is called the Woman's
Dormitory, but is no Sleepy Hollow in
spite of its name. There are very wide
awake women here. II is temporary
structure of two stories, with three sto-
ries in the center, and occupies an entire
block in length and about quarter of
block in width. The Chicago blocks are
an eighth of mile long, and we soon ac-
complish mile walking about the house.
1t is built of plain white boards Day
light comes through the cracks, and
when it rains the rain beats in. There
can be five fires in the five freplaces. AS
the face gets hot the back gets cold. and
if the circle is 20 or 80 the fraction of
heat is small for each person such cold
days as we had in May.
The pine boards of the house ooze out
with the tar balsam, and that has no
doubt cured many of influenza and
coughs. The doctors carriage does not
drive up though. We are 700 or / 900
women, but each one is natural nurse,
and there are some who have the title of
M. d. to their names. There are no mod
ern improvements in the house. There
is cold water, but not hot, except at GER
tain hours from two gas stoves, where
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
An Old Temple Uneasthed.

A very important discovery of ruins
has Just been made near Ixtlan. A par
ty of American and English archaol-
ogists, while exploring that remote Sec
ton, came upon an old building almost
buried in tho earth. 1t Is located in
dense forest and must have been undis-
turbed for several hundred years The
structure is built of stone and is OF large
dimensions. The roof is now almost on
u level with the ground, and with but
little difficulty the stones We're removed
and the interior explored, A large num-
Der Of idols, pottery and weapons made
of stone were found. In one corner of
the main room was found pile Of hui
man bones. 1t is believed that the build
ing was used as temple of worship by
the Indians on prehistoric race centu-
ries ago.-San Francisco Examiner,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
TIIE

A Stream Returning TO Its Source.
SincS the year 1907 the march of labor
BIAS been westward in America. An army
Of new arrivals has swept steadily across
the continent, farther and farsher into
western wilds and unsubdued lands.
Now,for the first time in car history the
side is reversed. An army of labor is
marching from the west eastward, in
hope of securing work and food. 1t is
enc Of the most pathetic and impressive
Nectacles witnessed in this country in a
generation. In freight trains, in box
cars, they come, unemployed miners and
workipgmeH from the silver states.> At
stations where they stop tie railroad
company tket forwards them gratuitous-
ly sometimes feeds them, at other times
generous private citizens do SO and again
city authorities, At Sedalia, Mo-, the
people with characteristic American big
heartedness fed one regiment of the re-
turning army on bologna sausage. ice
water and bread That they did not
haye cholera after this feast shows
very good state Of healthsindeed in the
United States.
The American peor&e east and west
have tkeir.hard full in feeding the I'M
employed sad their families this SUM
mer. In various instances generous pri-
waite indiyiituals havegixen up their own
KiimPer pleasures, even~a trip to the
Worlds fair, in order to help the hum
gy. 1t is right, and fortunate is coun-
tW where those who have food share it
90 beautifully with those who have not.
H,war be strong pull and long one
to provide all those who are out of-work
with employment in the east. That part
Of the country has at all times more la
bcrers tha, it needs in most lines of in
dustry. Still the effort must be made;
the responsibility met. Good times will
speedily return in spite of croakers and
spectators. Factories will reopen, shops
will rekindle their fires, and at cost of
some actual suffering and many heart
ache and disappointment the army of
workNen That migrated the wrong way
will be absorbed into the employed ranks.
The worst feature of the exodus and
Of the shutting down of industries will
be the creation of a host Of tramps Too
many Of the unemployed, having had
taste of being supported without work,
may make up their mkads to continue
that kindSf life. There were men who
never did stroke of labor after the Ohio
river fieod in 1884 because they were
supported by charity for some time fol
%L,+
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
There was slight earthquake in
England Friday night.

Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott: "There
is many man who stands beside the
bed of dying wife or child, and who
loves them as deeply as you and I do
ours. He sees the hectic fushes on
the faces of the loved ones grow paler
and knows that what he holds dearest
on earth will soon be gone forever.
he knows, also, that if he could have
what belongs to him-these four
things, fresh air, fresh water, bright
sunlight, and little of Gods own
free soil-this would not have hap
pened in nine cases out of ten. Now,
when he comes back from the potter's
field should we wonder if his cheek is
infamed with indignation at what he
nows should not be?'
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
Woman's Right to Smoke.

The difficulty of Distinguishing be-
tween law and custom even in the mind
of the average policeman was well ex-
emplifed in Louisville the other day.
Three giddy girls walked up one of the
city streets. They were different look
Ing from the hundreds of other girls
that promenaded Louisville highways
only in one respectfully were smoking
cigarettes. 1t curdled the blood of two
law and order policemen who stood on a
corner, and they instantly arrested the
gir's for disorderly conduct
In the morning, when the young wom-
en- were brought to trial, the police judge
remarked, While the accused were not
acting in accordance with the established
canons of society, l cannot see that they
were violating any law" He according
ly dismissed the case.
But this decision opens up fearful
vista for the future. There is no law
anywhere against women's smoking ciga-
rettes or pipes in public or in private.
This decision will become widely known.
Are the female sex from this time on 60
ing to walk along the streets putting to-
bacco smoke? They can if they want to,
but will they? And if they do, will the
lawmaking sex then enact statute that
women shall not smoke in public?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

The fewest failures recorded during
the present stringency are those of farm
ers. Of merchants 80 per cent fail at
one time or another, of farmers only 10
per cent. Agriculturists are apt to con-
slider merchants, manufacturers and
bankers as.their enemies in some degree,
yet in this hour, when the city business
man is tearing his hair in the vain effort
to find money where no money is, the
farmer can sit secure under his roof tree,
knowing that come what will he is sure
of at least food and shelter. He may
have to economize sharply, but ruin does
not stare him in the face. All this is
something-it is much.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
! Longest Railway In the World.

It Is the TRANSMISSION railway of Siberia,
which the Russian government & build
Ing at an estiwated cost of $685., 900, 900,
The figures will mount Higher than that
before it is completed, however, From
vladiSostock, the Russian seaport on the
Pacific, east coast of~Siberia, westward
to Cheiiabinsk, ON the east side of the
UEal mountains, the projected line will
Measurs4 $500 miles in. length. The west
ern end of the line from the Ural noun
tains eastward is well under way now.
Although 1897 has been fixed as the year
of completion for this whole stupendous
work, yet 1t is certain that the twentieth
century will dawn before 1t Is done.
Central Siberia, which the road will
traverse, is almost as unknown to civil
lization as the middle of Africa. The
line pushes eastward and slightly north
to the capital Of western Siberia, omsk,
as its first objective point, Omsk is
about 800 miles from the Ural noun
tains. Through barren salt steppes as
desolate as the oldtime "Great American
desert,v the road leads to Omsk Russia
hopes, however, to reclaim this region
just as Much Of the American desert has
been reclaimed through irrigation. But
northward Of the line, toward central
Siberia, is tract which can most nearly
be compared to the great wheatfelds Of
our own Dakotas, though plow, has as
yet scarcely scratched its virgin soil.
Russia proper is fast becoming over
crowded with rural population that is
too ignorant and british to do more
than ruin the best of farm lands The
soil of Russia proper has thus been al
ready worn out, much Of it, and the
hope of the white car now is to trans
port many of his agricultural children
over his great railway to the garden of
central Siberia, where it will take gen
eratians. to strip the soil as they have
done'in their cid homes.
A little farther eastward, south of the
main line, is the mining district of the
Altai mountains, where many enthusiasts
believe gold surprising that of Australia
or California will yet be found. Thus
far, about half the length of the great
road, there is reason for its existence.
For the eastern half there is no sufficient
commercial reason at present. Russia
needs it to transport soldiers and mill
tary supplies. She has besides a dim
dream that she can by its means bring
part of the trade from southern Asia to
Vladivostock and bend it around to west
ern Europe across Siberia.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

The universities of Europe have 16
times as many students as those of Amer.
lea, though European countries do not
begin to be as wealthy as this republic
is. There are only $500 university stu
dents proper in the United States. There
are compensations, however. One is that
a large proportion of the university stu
dents in Europe are Americans Another
is that every young man in America can
drive a nail and black his own boots,
which hundreds of foreign university
graduates cannot do.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

Whether the storage battery street car
will come into common use depends al
together ON whether it can be run as
cheaply as the trolley car. No doubt the
owners of the trolley lines themselves
would be glad to substitute storage cars
and thus be rid of the complaints made
of the overhead wires if they could. To
produce cheap and lightweight storage
battery system for street car propulsion
presents field of Invention worthy the
highest ambition. The storage battery
fills all the requirements made of it as
motor
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

A person of an imaginative turn Of
mind writes to recommend that para
chutes be attached to the outfit of all
firemen, SO that when they find them
selves cut off by flames from commune
cation with the ground they can simply
launch the parachute, throw themselves
from the window and sail down to safe
ty. Yes, with the long record of lives
lost every summer by reckless parachut-
ing, this is suggestion, isn't it? Let
the man who wants to try it on the fire.
men try it on himself first.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

An inventor has devised a genuine bur
glar proof safe for railway trains. II is
arranged with two combination locks.
Just when the bold train robber darkens
the car doorway, pistol in hand, the ex-
press messenger touches a little spring.
In an instant the safe is locked on new
combination of numbers which the mes
senger himself does not know and could
not give to save his fife. The agent at
the main station has that combination
set down in his books, and he must hunt
it out before the safe can be opened.
With this device the robber, the messen-
ger and the station agent must all be in
league before an express car safe can be
robbed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
Local Historic DAVIS.

Detroit lately celebrated the two hun
dredth anniversary of its founding in an
appropriate way. The day will hereaft-
er be observed in Detroit under the name
Of Cadillac day, Cadillac, Frenchman,
being the first man.who settled there.
The example of Detroit should be Ani-
tated in respect to local historic celebra-
tons. We have NOT so many holidays
or SO many local historic records in
America that we can afford to lose sight
of one of them. Every city and town,
every country neighborhood, should col
lect before it is too late'a1l the data per-
tanning to that spot and preserve it care
fully. The anniversary of the first set
Element Of place, of the laying out of
the town site or. of events connected
with Indian war and tragedy should an
nually be made the occasion of histor-
ic celebration which will arouse all the
local pride and patriotism.
School children need to be familiar
with the courage and devotion Of the
pioneers who made all the present civil
Ezition possible. 1t makes youth brave
and persevering to hear of gallant deeds
Of those gone before. These local his
toric celebrations should be attended
with music, feasts, recit@tions and the
reading of appropriate papers. The oc-
casiof might also be nobly utilized to
awaken desire to improve and beau
tify the neighborhood. If only our coun-
try roads and town streets were good,
If weeds were out and hillsides and COM
mons made into parks, if malarial
marshes were turned into, picturesque
Eactive country in the world.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11
Lucky widow blossoms Fortune,

The luckiest woman in Kansas City 10
buxom young Widow Blossom, proprle.
tress Of the great Union depot restaur-
ant, who feeds 1900 people daily at fifty
cents head for good square meal,
and owns three story hotel across the
street where part Of them may sleep II
so minded. The lamented Mr.. Blossom
located in the Union depot several years
ago and had some little trouble in MAX
ing both ends meet. Expenses were
high and for time it looked as though
he would have to abandon the enter
prise to some one with m re capital. He
held on, however, and after the tide
turned made money rapidly. Then the
poor man died, but his handsome widow
carries on business at the same old
stand, and is yearly laying away a snug
sum, estimated all the way from so, 200
to $50 600. She could ma ry any day, but
like most women with money, feaIs to
led fortune seeker.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

The motto of the propIietors of DIR.
Henry Bakers Mandrake Bitteis is, ''the
greatest good to the greatest number,
and so sell a large bottle of a valuable
remedy for the small price of % cents,
and warrant every bottle to give satisfac-
ton or money refunded.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

Ontario Utah silver mines received
81 per day in 1890. Now they offer
to take only half the wages earned,
the remainder to be held by the en-
ployers until the industry shall have
taken on a boom.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

The Industrial Union of Indiana
polls is successful concern. House
keepers without help, or those desir-
ing to have breads, cakes, cookies
and cold meats during the summer,
and do not care to prepare them at
home, may leave orders and have
them filled. The union was establish
ed for double purpose-as center
for supplies, and as place where
any one desiring to dispose of their
own products might do SO.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-11

A curious sort of economist says that
low prices for agricultural products
stimulate the growing of still more of
the same products, because the farmer
must raise yet larger quantities of them
to meet his expenses. Not if the farmer
has any sense. If the price of wheat,
cotton or potatoes falls below paying
figure, the farmer with gumption will go
to raising something else that does pay
him