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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
Dunrayen,

The English nobleman who came over
here in the hope of winning away from
this country the America cup has done
much more than sail a racing yacht. He
is much of a man all around, so much
of a one that Americans would rather
have seen him win the cup than almost
any other Briton, if any Briton at all
could win it.
Lord Dunraven was very active men,
Der Of the Salisbury administration. In
1889 he moved the appointment in the
house of lords of committee to investi-
gate the evils of the sweating system.
For once a government committee was
thorough, going to the bottom, not white
washing or extenuating. Not only the
sweatshops and contracts Of London it
self were examined, but the system was
probed throughout all Britain. The re-
suit was a great stirring up of things
and reform which promises to be per.
manent. The committee began with the
government contracts, for they found as
many outrages existing there as else.
where. A resolution was carried through
parliament calling for the insertion into
government contracts of such conditions
as would prevent the abuses of subletting
The demand has since been strictly com.
piled with, and local governing boards
have followed the example of the nation
al one. A sentiment against the sweat
ing system has been aroused over the
whole kingdom through the persistent
effort of the man whose yacht tried fol-
the America cup.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

America is record breaking country.
We hold the blue ribbon for trotting
horses, millionaires, beautiful women
and labor saving inventions, and now
the record has been broken by an Amer
lean in the talking line. Who but an
American-who but a Populist, one
might add--could stand and talk for 148
hours at one stretch without break or
stammer? Senator Allen of Nebraska
will go down in history as the man who
has outtalked the world, and he was not
very tired either at the end of his ora
ton. How he endured it is hard to un-
derstand. How those who listened to
him endured it could not be understood
at all except for glimpse at the list of
certain articles that went into the SEN
ate restaurant and disappeared during
that remarkable session. Here it is:
800 pounds of trimmed loins of beef.
3 cases of wine, $50 bottles of beer. 200
loaves of bread, 10 boxes of is cent CT
CARS, 40 boxes of % cent cigars, 1900
Shrewsbury oysters, 1000 Blue Point
oysters, 300 gallons of coffee, $50 pies
ind 500 sandwiches. Two hundred and
fifty piesl
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
Hardships of the Poor.

The old woman who brought the charge
of cruelty against the superintendent of
a county poorhouse because he made
her take bath once week has found
fitting yokefellows in the inhabitants of
Hamburg, who raised a riot and resisted
the police because the sanitary inspectors
insisted on cleaning them up. An out
rageous and oppressive tyranny wanted
to crush them beneath the iron heel OF
its despotism by making them wash
themselves, throw away garbage or burn
it and disinfect their premises. They
wouldn't stand this infraction of free
citizens rights in the nineteenth cen
tury, so they gathered in force and at
tackled the sanitary inspectors and the
police. They actually killed police
man and sanitary officer in the heroic
defense of their right to be as dirty as
they pleased. They would rather die of
cholera than take bath.
Nothing like defending ones rights,
and the right to live in state of filth is
one of the Oldest. 1t began with prim-
tive man and has been asserted with
vigor by many of his descendants
ever since. To these cholera, smallpox
and typhus are not consequences of
mans unsanitary habits, but visitations
from God, and it is wicked to prevent
them by cleanliness. This good, strong,
old fashioned doctrine is held today by
more people than one would think for,
some of them being in our midst.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

Each of the cities and larger towns in
the Union can take care of its own poor
this winter, and this should be done sys-
tematically. Relief committees can be
formed, in all cases of the best and most
prosperous citizens, men and women.
They should take in hand the matter
earnestly and give time to sitting the
cases to the bottom. One subcommittee
should attend to the matter of provid-
ing work for the unemployed wherever
it can be found, that there may be as lit
tie downright pauperism and beggary
as possible. Accepting charity has or
dinarily demoralizing and degrading
effect on an individual. 1t tends to low.
u his self respect and to confirm in him
I'm impression that the world owes him
living. Every great calamity in which
it became necessary for the public to
open its hand generously has been pro-
ductive of its crop of tramps and vaga-
bonds. Men who for the first time in
their lives tasted the sweets of getting a
living without work have thereafter new.
III done stroke of honest labor. This
Generalization must be avoided. While
deserving poor must be fed and shelter
ed, frauds must be punished to the ex.
tent of the law. Indiscriminate giving
does as much harm as not giving at all
Clean, honest, helpful investigation is
the thing.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
Tremendous Phenomena.

Dec. 8, 1891, Heidelberg astronomer
made photograph of the constellation
Auriga Two nights later Professor
Pickering of Harvard observatory also
made some photographs of the same con-
stellation. When these were developed,
they showed star of the sixth magni-
tude in a spot which had been blank in
The Heidelberg Photograph. Jan. "a,
1892, six weeks and Hree days later, DR..
Anderson, an amateur astronomer of
Edinburgh, observed star of the fifth
magnitude in the place that had been
vacant in the constellation Auriga Dec.
s. 1t was then so large as to be visible
to the naked eye.
Thus Z spot vacant Dec. was shown
to contain a star of the sixth magnitude
Dec. 10, while by Jan. "a the same had
increased in size and brilliancy till it
was of the fifth magnitude. In two
days, from Dec. s, when it was not visi-
BILE at all, to Dec. 10, when it appeared
of the sixth magnitude, this uncanny
star must have gained in brightness six
teenfold. Yet as strange part of the
story still remains to be told. Its light
began to decrease almost Immediately
after Jan. "a. 1t was approaching the
sun. By the last of April it had become
invisible altogether even through the
great Lick telescope.
Aug. II it was once more visible. But
now it was not star at all any more.
1t was nebula, a hazy spot of bright
ness, and so it remains to this day, and
that is what became of Nova. Aurigae,
as it was called. In The Forum, Pro-
fessor Edward S. Holden sums up sew
eral of the theories advanced for the
swift changes in appearance of this Won
derful star. He supposes that some of
the tremendous collisions or explosions
with which the writings of Camille
| Flammarion have made us more or less
acquainted have here actually taken
place. But from the estimated distance
of the star the catastrophe must have
! occurred from 20 to so years ago, and
| the light which reveals it to us has only
/ reached us.
!; Astronomers suppose that a dark star
invisible to us, occupied the space which
the Heidelberg astronomer finds blank
in his photograph. Sometimes there are
| stars that move in straight lines. If one
| of these should come in contact with 6
system of planets similar to ours, there
would be catastrophe that could de
| stroy whole sun, with its attendant
planets and the star into the bargain
| There are dead, cold solar systems re
volving through space. The impact
would be attended with phenomena be
fore which imagination falls back ap
palled.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
Plenty of Gold.

In the Witwatersrand goldfeld, South
Africa, an experimental boring has just
been completed to the depth of $500 feet
for the purpose of testing the quantity
and quality of the auriferous deposits
there. The results are said to be most
satisfactory. and a Mr.. Scott Alexander
has based on them the following extraor-
binary calculations: Circumference of
basin, 400 miles. diameter, 1877 miles;
area. 1850 square miles, or 800, tic, 272,-
900 square feet. Taking an average thick
ness of eight series of blanket beds at 6
feet, equal TO 4S feet, equals 1884, 093,-
056, 600 cubic feet of reef. or at 10 cubic
feet to the ton, 1851 ,433, 160,00 tons.
At 80 shillings per ton, very low value Of
gold, equal to 81 SIS, 1886, 224 Goo TAX
ing the population Of Witwatersrand at
10000 souls, this allows each $50, Asa, 905
19S Cd
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
The Crow as a scavenger a Fraud.

A curious result of the religious riots
in Bombay has been the exposure of the
hollowness of the plea that has been put
forth for the crow as scavenger. Lazy
governments in the east have been won't
to excuse their canitary shortcomings on
the ground that 1.-THE crow, the pariah
dog and the kite" may be relied upon to
clear away the offal in the streets, but
the smells of Constantinople and Smyrna
have not been observed to be much the
less because the dogs eat of the offal
thrown from the houses, nor has Jerusa-
lem or Cairo been found to be any sweet
er from the presence of themongrels who
destroy the repose of visitors.
In like manner the Bombay crow has
failed to justify his ancient reputation.
During the Bombay riots, when the op-
erations of the city scavengers were
brought to a standstill, dead vermin and
offal accumulated in extraordinary guam
titles in the bazaars and slums of the ma
tive quarters till the city became par
adise for the crows" But the Bombay
crows entirely neglected this opportuni-
ty, and thus have come to be denounced
as ''sham sanitarians. London Tele-
RraDh
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

A woman who was robed in a dress of
stylish make, and who showed by her
air that she was in the circle of the well
to do, was accompanied by little pug
dog. The street was somewhat muddy
from the water that had been lavishly
sprinkled upon it by the city's watering
cart. Little PIGGY ran into the street,
where he saw a nice bit of bone, and
even his aristocratic breed and training
could not restrain him from taking at
least few bites of it. He was inclined
to bring the choice tidbit to the pave
ment, but his mistress forbade this, so
he dropped the tempting morsel and
skunk on to the sidewalk again.
But in puggy's nibblings at the bone
he had muddied his little fattened out
nose. The woman scolded him as seri-
ously as though he were child. Heac-
knowledged the business of the repri-
mand by dropping his aristocratic head
in remorseful manner His mistress
thereupon patted his head, and taking a
delicate lace edged handkerchief from her
handbag, deliberately wiped dear, naugh-
ty little puggy's nose.-Boston Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
Philadelphia's Waiting Mice.

Lately the employees at the Philadel-
phia Geological garden have been amused
by the antics of some queer little animals
which are not on public exhibition. The
newcomers are black and white Japa-
nese waltzing mice, seven in number.
When let cut of their cages, they wink
at each other and step gracefully forward
with movement which some Of the be-
holders declare is bow. Head Keeper
Manley whistles Annie Rooney" and
the mice skip away in pairs with aqueer,
whirling motion. When he strikes up
"The Bowery," they revolve so fast that
nothing can be seen but little gray balls.
"Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" causes them to
"swing corners" and dance "all hands
around" Once the owner ventured to
play the "Dead March" while they were
dancing. With a whisk of their tails
the little rodents fled to the cages like a
man pursued by the nightmare.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
Plan For Making Money Plenty.

w. H. Van Ornum has been doing
some original thinking all out of his own
head on the currency q, ton and has
evolved way to make money plenty.
He wouldhav the people depend neither
on banks nor government for their sup
ply of currency, but just manufacture
it themselves. They can take chapter
out of the history of banks, and espe-
cially also ont the history of the clearing
houses the past summer. When money
WAS not to be had, the clearing houses
issued to banks that were properly sup
ported loan certificates to the amount of
many million dollars, and this passed
current.
Mr.. Van Ornum would have business
men form associations of their own and
issue certificates of credit which should
pass as money until the present hard
times were over. Farmers can form
their own associations as well as mer-
chants and manufacturers. The exact
way to go about it is set forth as follows
by Mr.. Ornum in The Arena:
Business men can form mutual associations
for their own convenience SVd credit to facili-
tate their own business. j. member can be
rated for credit according to lis financial abi-
lily or business probity, bel ~ gcN>'ed by the
same considerations as now enable Ne banks
to determine the credit OF customers, Then
let the association issue to each member re-
Ispectively certificates of credit, il denomina-
tons corresponding to the present paper cur
Irency, to the full amount of the credit allowed,
which will circulate money, backed by the
| credit of the whole association. These certif-
| Gates should show that they are receivable by
| any member of the association for all bills or
| accounts due such members and in payment
| for all services rendered or goods purchased
| in short, let every member guarantee to receive
| and treat them precisely like any other money
| The association will constitute cooperative
| bank for the benefit Of its members, in which
| the certificates of credit will be deposited, to
| be checked against or added to in new deposits
| like any other bank account. The bank, being
| for the mutual convenience of its members, need
| not and ought not to make profit. 1t should
| discount no notes, deal in no securities, exact
4 members. For the running expenses eacf
member should pay enough to cover the cost
| of the individual service to him, which can b.
based upon the volume of his credits, and in ar
| association of even moderate proportions thai
need not exceed a very small part of per cent
| annually.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
The Time of conyalescence.

Don't worry the sick ones in regard to
what they wish to eat Fix up some
thing nice and tasty, serve 1t daintily
and reap the reward that a capricious
appetite will grant-the reward of seeing
the eatables disappear merely becar g
they were a pleasant and unexpected
surprise. Next, do not allow every
friendly neighbor to run in and sit for
hours until the flushed cheeks and too
brilliant eyes of the patient tell the story
Of an overdose of company.
Do not let your charge be too eager for
recovery-far better week or more of
idleness than a precipitate activity that
throws the invalid back once more upon
the sick bed. Be cheerful always. Bright
en- up the room with gay flowers whose
odor is not too heavy, but never permit
them to remain in the sickroom over
night Keep your patient tidy and the
bedclothes smooth and cool as possible.
Speak in low tones, walk with soft tread
and be ever watchful against the slight
est indiscretion. To mothers this sort of
nursing comes naturally, but there are
some who must be told, as they err
through lack of that gentle Judgment
that is the secret of sickroom victories.
Philadelphia Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

The republic of Madagonia had been
long and we'll represented at the court
of the king of Patagascar by an officer
called dazie, but one day the Madago-
MAN parliament conferred upon him the
superior raLk of dandee. The next day
after being apprised of his new dignity
he FASTENED to inform the king Of Pata-
gascar.
"Ah, yes, understand" said the king.
"You have been promoted and given in
creased pay and allowances. There was
an appropriations
"Yes, your majesty"
"And you have now two heads, have
you mott"
"Oh, no, your inaiesty-only one, as
sure YOU"
"Indeed! And how many legs and
arms?'
"Two of each, Gire-only two of EACH"
Sand only one bodyY
"Just single body, rs you perceive"
Thoughtfully removing his crown and
scratching the royal head, the monarch
was silent moment, and then he said:
81 fancy that appropriation has been
misapplied. You seem to be about the
same kind Of blank fool that you were
yesterday."-San Francisco Examiner.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
THE
Fall Fioricultnre.'

The individual who brings vases OF
cut flowers into the house, keeps them
till they fade and die and then throws
them away is not lover of flowers OF
all. Their true lover feels toward them
as he would to a favorite horse or dog
To him or her they are living things, to
be fed and watered and studied and
tended and made the most of. In return
they will give back floods of sweetness
and light which will be rich reward for
his care.
A drive through the country at this
time of year will quickly show where
the real flower lover lives. In that IA
vored spot there will be activity among
the plants, only less than there was in
the springtime. The flower lover will
be busy with spade and trowel, potting
off the beauties that are to bloom in win
ter, covering the shrubs and borders that
are to stay outdoors, and cleaning up
the garden and lawn so that they will
not look all winter like an old cabbage
bed from which the cabbages have been
cut, while the unsightly stumps are left
sticking forlornly up into the air.
In the favored southern states of the
Union winter covering for the glorious
roses and pansies is not necessary. But
in the middle and northern states in
these days the real flower lover will be
seen cutting back the luxuriant summer
growth of the roses and laying the canes
fiat upon the ground in a compact mass.
Over them he spreads layer of leaves
and litter, holding the cover together
with evergreen or other branches piled
ON top so the leaves cannot blow away.
The hardest of perennial plants make a
quicker, more vigorous growth in spring
for being thus protected. Border plants
should be covered in the same way, ex.
cept that they need cover half foot
deep of leaves and litter. 1t must bt
weighted down to keep the wind from
blowing it away.
On sunshiny day in October you viii
see the flower lover digging up the tube
rose, gladiolus and dahlia bulbs. HI
will let them lie in the sun two or three
days, till the moisture has dried off then
and the rich autumn warmth has entered
their hearts, then he will put them away
in a cool, dark place to sleep till the SUI
awakens them into life next spring.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
Marriage In Bowie County,

A matrimonial snarl that may have far
reaching consequences has been discov-
cred in Bowie county, Tex. For 10 years
past, owing to the too great complais-
ance of county clerks, illegal marriage
licenses have been issued to the number
of 1000, so the story goes. Thus ZOO
couples, who have been jogging along
under the matrimonial yoke for years,
making the best or worst of it, have sud
denly been awakened to the fact that
they are really not married at all, but
are free to go and try it over again any
day they like.
How will they take it? Doubtless
those who really enjoy the yoke will have
only to go and be welded over again.
Some of the couples thus rudely jostled
out of their dream of married bliss be-
long to the most distinguished and high
flying social circle of Texarkana. These
would not dare to separate, even though
they wanted to, because of what was ex-
pected of them by society.
Those, however, who have no social
standing to maintain can drop apart with
the greatest ease if they are tired of each
other. There will be some interesting
scenes in cases where one is tired of it
and the other is not. There will be con-
siderable furtive study of each others
countenances among couples whose rela-
tions have been little strained, as they
say in statecraft, each to find out what
the other is going to do about it. Some
wandering John who has not been sober
in five years may suddenly be converted
into prohibitionist, and some shrewish
Mary Ann may in the twinkling of an
eye become meek as lamb because of
the Bowie county decision. There are
always compensations.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
She snrnrised the Hoard.

Mrs. Stowe-Gullen, NJ. D., of the To-
ronto school board recently surprised
that body by showing that the appoint
ment of four public school supervisors
was illegal. She introduced resolution
abolishing the useless office, pointed out
clearly that the law gave the board no
power to appoint any such officials, hence
that they were spending annually 1000
of the peoples money without legal au-
thority. The board could not gainsay
her argument and so adopted her resolu-
tion.-Torouto Mail
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

There never was a Worlds fair in any
country, there will not soon boone again,
in which the paid admissions in one day
mount to over 100000. This mighty
number could only be reached elsewhere
If the empire of China should conclude to
hold worlds exposition.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

1t seems to be all approved principle
of European statecraft that when a
country is SO deeply in debt that she is
bankrupt and on the brink of ruin, as
Italy practically is at present, the proper
thing for her to do is to enter on war
of some kind and plunge herself still
deeper into debt, 50 that she may divert
the attention of her citizens from the
ruin that is upon them.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

The great yacht race has set Americans
to studying up their dictionary of nau-
teal terms. Many who before did not
know spinnaker boom guy from top
most backstay can now tell you to a
nicely just what is the matter with the
bobstay fall or the spirit topsail halyards.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

What white mans Grafton ever ex.
ceeded in eloquence one simple utter
ance of the aged, trembling old Potta-
watomie chief Pokagon on Chicago day
at the Worlds fair: When | crossed
the great lake and entered the gates Of
the White City, stood aghast, trying to
drink in its vastness. My heart throbbed
within me as in boyhood, when for the
first time, bow in hand, frightened
deer leaped out before me-"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20
Push dem clouds away.
Life is Misery

LIE IS MIsery
To many people who have the faint of
scrofula IN their blood. The agonies
caused by the dreadful running sores and
beyond description. There is no other
remedy equal to Hoods Sarsaparilla fol-
scrofula, salt rheum and every form OF
blood disease. 1t is reasonably sure to
benefit all who give it a fair trial.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

With Joseph Chamberlain in this
country advocating great federation Of
commerce and amity among all English
speaking nations, with Professor Gold
win Smith also here preaching the poit-
ical annexation of Canada, out and out,
it looks much as if the mountain were
coming to Mohammed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-20

The record of the greatest attendance
at the Paris exposition will be broken
more than once at our fair The largest
number of admissions at Paris in 1859
was 397. $50, and that up to date was the
greatest crowd ever visiting an exposi-
ton in one day.