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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
FOR SALE,

NV Farm, formerly the Newell Hunt
ing place. Said farm is in the town of
Winhall joining Londonderry on the east,
Peru on the north, aud on direct road
from SO, Londonderry to Manchester.
Farm contains s. acres more or less, suit
ably divided into pasture, tillage and
wood land with a 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 laud lies 10 the south.
and is in high state of cultivation.
Said farm is three miles from So. Lon
donderry and twelve from Manchester
and near school. Farm cuts hay enough
TO winter fifteen head of cattle beside
team and can be bought low this fall on
account of poor health.
For further particulars enquire of s.
M. Holden, SO. Londonderry, or the sub
scriber on the premises
C. V. BRYANT.
Winhall, VT, Oct 10, 80.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
Journalistic Education.

De Blowitz, the London Times corre.
spondent, wants school for educating
young journalists. There is a great
amount of bosh in tie De Blowitz plan.
which requires the you aspirant to
spend eight years in learning low to run
to a fire or interview distinguished
man. Some of the ideas are excellent,
however, and among the best are the re-
quirements that the young journalist
shall understand at least two languages
other than his own, and that he shall
know how to draw beth landscape and
the human figure. A better thing yet,
which De Blowitz, with his poky, old
fashioned methods, has forgotten, is that
the aspirant shall be thoroughly good
photographer. Then even if he does not
know how to draw he can take snap
shot at anything ON earth or in the sky
and bring down picture that an artist
can readily make into newspaper Illus
tration.
Another excellent requirement in the
De Blowitz plan is that the journalist
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
She Has Fortitude unbounded, Yet No
Inclinas to Pensive Ways.

She Has Fortitude unbounded. Yet Now
Inciines to Pensive Ways.
There seems To be mode In maladies
as we'll as In mantles, styles in suffering
as novelties in dress Just at the present
time II isn't fashionable TO have any phys
ical ailment unless 1t is something vague
and peculiar under the general name Of
nerves." and the odd thing about it Is
only the more robust and vigorous WON.
en-, so far as looks are an indication OF
virility, that have this servous prostra-
ton perpetually on hand. If a woman
looks pale and delicate, she never will ad'
NIT that she is not strong
The fin do steele girl glories in bearing
physical pain without a complaint She
will seat herself in the dentists or ocu-
lists chair as unooncernedly IA IL posing
for the photographer and submit to the
most painful operations without groan;
in fact. assuring the operator THAT II
really was less painful than she expect
ed" A car driver would cry like baby
if subjected to half as much suffering
But we are returning to the days OF
sloping shoulders, Of parted pensive
tresses, Of fullness and frivolity in dress.
The up to date girl is sweetly submissive,
not smart and self reliant She wears
flowers in her hair and occasionally even
ventures in what the girl in the old nov
els is always doing, putting rose in her
bosom, your rose that you have given
her, And she does it with such a shy
and modest little blush. Now the ques-
ton is, Will the "vapors" and "swoons"
and "sobbings" of that period come in
againi The Amelias and Delias and Caro-.
lines of that day were always in dead
faint over something. They tainted for
joy and tainted for sorrow A girl Of
that time swooned off when her lover
proposed, and when she came to she was
always lying in his arms, and Of course
it was all over and no use trying to tell
a fellow about being sister to him after
that
There was another feature about this
swooning fit of the old time heroine, and
that was that her dearest friend was al
ways within call with the scissors to cut
her corset laces. How is any one in this
liiilc vi lluutn uOOho CNOi w iOOoCu q
bodice before the heroine passes over the
border line in her faintl twill be rather
difficult for the modern girl, who has
trained herself to smile when her heart
breaks, to die rather than reveal her heart
to conceal her joy and preserve her Sc
renity alike through death or divorce, to
learn this graceful art Of collapsing ut
just the proper time to bring wary
sutton to his knees
There's something dangerous to a
chivalrous mans theories against mar
riage to find himself suddenly with his
arms full of limp, signing, pale faced girl
hood. He is more apt to cali her pretty
names than he would be if she stood radi-
ant and defiant before him, apparently
ready to laugh at his endearments. New
York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24

served, that Is all, and they can be put
in few words. Those neighborhoods
that seriously want capital and intelli
gent people to come their way and stoI
there must observe certain conditions.
First, they must make their locality
entirely safe for life and property. They
must have no lynchihgs or deeds Of law.
lessness and violence. Lynchers, hang
ers, shooters, masked whippers and
mobs must be absolutely rooted out
There are whole counties In this Union
in which the price Of farming lands has
sunk SO low they can scarcely be given
away, for the sole reason that mobs and
ynchers have terrorized them till law
abiding citizens have moved out and
left them forever A neighborhood in
which the law is not permitted both to
protect citizens and punish crime in the
regular way will be Stunned as plague
spot by all people having either money
or decency. You can set that down,
and it is the main point. Neither will
they go to place where gangs of un'
whipped young hoodlums roam at large
! breaking down fences, setting fires to
trees and destroying private property.
Then you must have first class public
schools. No intelligent people will settle
in place where they cannot educate
their children in those schools that are
the crown of Americas glory. Set that
down too. One other little point is that
you must have good roads. Will public
spirited, stirring citizens go to neigh
borhood where they are shut off from
market and all the world six months in
the year, and where they cannot go to
the postoffice even for whole week?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24

II moral obligation TO give away his
money thus rests ON man, II rests on
him personally and during his own life,
He does not discharge il by keeping the
moner while he lives and compelling his
children TO give 1t away for him after
his death. II his money ur any part OF
It belongs to the public ct right. 1t be
longs to them during the life Of the man.
not merely at his death. He IS respon'
sible for the stewardship and Is account.
able for its performance, and ho cannot
transfer to others the obligation.
Really it cannot be called noble gen
crosby, high altruism. for man to give
away his money only after he is dead
and he has no more use for it, He should
DO his own almoner during his own life
II the methods by which he obtained his
fortune were culpable in his OWL ostiua
ton and he wishes to make atonemont
for them in departing from this life, he
can do it only by returning to the indi
viduals the money which no took from
them wrongfully. He does not whittier
his oifense by giving it to somebody else.
If 1t belongs rightfully to others lesiaes
himself, it belongs to those from whom
he got it by unjust means,
II was made evident during Mr..
Gould's life that he had no such consci'
entious scruples as to the means by
which he accumulated his great estate.
Death did not come to him unexpected.
~. For years past he must have been
forewarned that his life was approach.
ing its end. The consciousness that his
time on earth was likely 10 10 short
probably induced him to pay special at.
tention to his religious obligations as he
understood them. He became diligent
attendant upon a Presbyterian church.
and he gave his open adherence to its Sc
we're doctrines of future accountability
for his conduct in this life. He was moi
an infidel. He was an orthodox believer
He must have died thinking that his for
tune was rightfully his own and had
been obtained by means consistent witt
the obligations of religion. He could moi
have felt that he was under the mora
compulsion of making restitution to any
body.
In leaving his fortune to his children
he put upon each of them the burden Of
his own moral responsibility to use hi
money. He made each of them his owl
almoncr, with power to use his own in
come in his own way, as he himself hac
done and insisted on doing That is all.
New York SIM.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
She Injured Her Pride.

Are you hurtY" said gentleman to a
young woman who had just fallen down
ina most ungraceful heap on the side
walk on Chestnut street the other day.
No, thank you; only my PRIDE" and
she brushed off her gown and got out of
sight as quickly as possible. 1t is wom-
ans nature to really wish If she has to
fall that she will hurt herself rather than
to have all the ignominy for nothing
When man tumbles down, he is up
again in a minute, his clothes intact, and
no one gives more than passing thought
to the occurrence. But the poor woman
usually drops her purse. knocks her hat
awry, is never certain how much lingerie
she has exposed and is helped up mis-
cradle wreck that will take several pins
and 10 minutes before the mirror to
make presentable again, to say nothing
of the humbling her pride undergoes by
the operation. Philadelphia Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
Dolgeville.

Dolgeville, N. Y, has had its annual
banquet and distribution of profits.
Dolgeville is the village occupied by the
factories and workmen of Alfred Dodge,
the largest manufacturer of felt goods
in the United States. There has never
been q strike or any quarrel between
labor and capital at Dolgeville.
Manufacturers cannot prosper if la
borers are not consumers" says Alfred
Dodge. On that basis he has built up his
business. An exact system of bookkeep-
ing is one of the sources of the compa-
ny's prosperity. The amount Of added
profit on each pound of wool is taken
note of as it passes through one machine
to another. The profits shared by the
firm with the workmen are divided into
three tlasses-life insurance, pension
and endowment. A man who has worked
for the company five years gets pres
emit of life insurance policy worth SAA,,s
600. This is increased till in five years
more it amounts to $1,000. Every man
knows that at his death his family will
get this insurance. Further, aged Or
disabled workmen are retired on half
pay. That IS the pension. The endow-
ment part of the plan depends more On
the individual himself.
If a workman discovers any improve
ment in machinery, or if by his care and
diligence in work he adds to the profit
of the business, this is duly set down to
his credit, and at the annual banquet he
gets the benefit of it. The village has a
handsome clubhouse belonging to th4
workmen, and it is here that the festive
board is spread, the speeches are mac
and the money is distributed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
Places?

server must
have noted thai 49, st few years
death has taken away nearly all the
worlds greatest ones. 1t is true in every
walk of life. France has not remaining
one of the strong men who made the
third republic. In England, it is true,
the only statesman the country has had
since Disraeli still lives in splendid in
tellectual activity. but he is "a years old
In Germany Won Moltke is dead, and
Bismarck is superannuated and broken
hearted. In our own country John Sher-
man is the only one left who took an il
lustrious part in the statecraft of war
time. Our greatest generals are all
gone. Victor Hugo is dead. Darwin,
Tennyson and George Eliot are dead
Here, Longfellow, Whittier and Lowell
have vanished from the scene, and only
Dr. Holmes remains in his old sunny
place. Even of very great actors, where
are there any?
Those who will take corresponding rank
to those who are gone are already born
perhaps, but we know them not as yet
There is greater number Of writers of
the second and third rank. both in prose
and poetry, in France, Great Britain and
America than the world ever possessed
before, but of the first none. America
has the greatest inventor of the 10Th CEN
fury, still in his prime. May he flourish
till the grass grows over the graves of all
his enemies
But the people want noble literature
and noble teaching Undoubtedly those
who will give it to us are now living,
toiling painfully and sorrowfully up the
hill. but the sunshine has not yet touched
their heads. We only know that there
are many lofty and shining inches empty,
waiting tb be filed by daring. patient
young genius.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
Good Neignhorhood.

There are localities in this country in
which the population increases little
from census to census. They are in the
older states, too, in spots where the sol
is fertile enough for all needs and the
climate good. Yet no modern improve
ments march that way: no rich city poo
pie make country homes in those neigh
borhoods; railroads come no nearer
though they are built all around these
hoodooed spots.
The inhabitants mourn and want enter
prising immigrants, capitalists, factories
railroads and telegraphs. Well, it is MOI
hard to make the population and wealtl
of locality increase if its leading cit
gems take the matter in hand the righi
way. There are Q few points to be OBJ
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24

The Mr., Smith who is to be Mr.. Cleve-
lands secretary of the interior has one
comfort, and a great one, His name is
not John. 1t Is Hoke, and there is GER
tainly no other Hoke Smith in the coun-
try, SO that no other Smith will ever get
his letters. But why does he not hitch
the two names together and call himself
Mr.. Hokesmith? That would DO very
good name
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
A Card From Mrs. Blaine.
The following is published by request:

WAsHINGroN, Feb. |.
The public advertisements Of many "Biogi
raphies Of James G.. Blaine" pretending TO be
authentic" and Authoritative" compel mo to
state that no biography or Life and Work Of
Mr.. Blaine" u authorized or approved by my
self or by any member OF Mr.. Blaine's family:
that no manuscript by Mr.. Blaine. or any pri-
vate letter or paper OF Mr.. Blaine's, or any ma
terial for biography. has been given out to any
one. II In the future any authentic" or "au-
thorized" biography should be prepared by
competent authors. 1t rill be authenticated and
authorized By myself
HARRIET S. BLAINE
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
The New Worlds warning to the Old

lhc new "ofIu > w aFuinS 10 Ine Ola.
w. 7. Stead regards the anti-immigra-
ton agitation in the United States as the
preliminary move toward total change
of policy in regard to foreign settlers in
this country. 1t is practically a servi.i {
notice on the old world that this country
will no longer receive her degraded, Tilt
crate surplus population. Then Whist
will Great Britain dor" asks Stead. IL
has already 40,OOO,OOO human beines
penned up in her small islands. What
measures of relief against still moro
overcrowding and undertaking hare
British statesmen to offer when Amer, 4
is no longer open? He comments It's
question to their consideration. He re-
marks still further:
There is nothing in Panama scandals, or in
German army bills, or in the commoticn ia
the home rule tcacup, that approaches il ia.
poftance this ominous notice from the IL i,
world-that America can no longer be used Il.
the dumping ground for the surplus hume 4
| refuse of Europe. If the warning be ful.
! filed, il will seem to many millions as if tie
| For them hitherto the prospect of an escape
| to America, where wages were high and wher,
| the blood tax was never levied, seemed tl(
| nearest equivalent for their waning faith in .
celestial paradise. Skepticism and materialisu
have dimmed their vision of the heavens. Thea
one hope of betterment, the only terresirie
paradise. lay across the Atlantic. And nov
| the gates of the transatlantic Eden are being
| barred before them.
Senator Chandler, like the angel with TIA,
| flaming sword. denies them access to the prom
ised land. What are they to do2 Cut cat.
| others Threats in tho mad struggle for susie
nance? There Is another way out. Last year tai
| deaths outnmhbered the births in France l..
5000. But for an excess of births over death
among the Italians and Belgians of 1900 eao;
and 1000 among other nationalities the decrea.
of French population would have been 1900 i
the IL months. The French cradle is not beii I
refilled Ten years ago there were e5s COO baiiie
born In France in one year. Last year the.,
were only 500, 90 births as against s76.00Odea:s
There were more marriages than any yea
since 1854. but not more children
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
We TELL YOU

nothing new when we state that it pays to engage
in a 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 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 It, and you, reader, can 90 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 it trial at once.
If 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 old or young, man or woman, it
makes no difference, : do as We tell you, and sue
cess will meet you at the very start. Neither
experience or capital necessary. Those who work
for US are rewarded Why not write to-day for
full particulars, free E. c. ALLEN & CO,
BOX No. 42O, Augusta, Me.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24

Votes on one or two questions in con-
gress this winter show conclusively that
if the south and even part of the west
unite at any time they can hold the bal
anoe of power against the joint force of
the most thickly populated states of the
union. The entire vote of New York,
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, on the
silver question was more than counter
balanced by the vote of such states as
Texas, Missouri. Indiana, Georgia, Ten
nessee and Kansas.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
Points in Butter Making.

During the hot weather butter makers
are greatly troubled with soft butter.
This is largely due in most cases to i'm
proper handling of the milk. cream and
butter. Where persons have spring
houses or refrigerators butter that is
soft when churned can soon be brought
into firm, presentable appearance, but
it is far better that it should come from
the churn in the right condition. Grass
butter, made from rich old pastures
free from weeds, and from such varieties
as June or Kentucky blue grass, orchard
grass, red top, wire grass and white
clover, or from mixtures of some of
these sorts, if churned at a little below
so dogs. and properly handled, should be
of q texture that will give little or nc
cause for complaint. During the hot
spells, however, there is tendency for
the butter to be soft, Notwithstanding
any care which may be taken of it.
As the result of experiments made at
the Ontario (Canadian) experiment sta
ton to test the effect of food on milk
and butter, Professor H. H. Dean re.
ports that the addition of small guam
tity of meal, especially cottonseed meal
to the food has a tendency to make the
butter firlner and raise the melting point
from to dogs. centigrade. During the
last summer about one pound per day Of
cottonseed meal was fed to each cow al
pasture, mixed with bran or some grair
meal, and not churning of soft butter
occurred during the whole season
Whether this was altogether due to the
cottonseed meal he is not prepared tc
say, but believes it had much to dc
with it.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
utiIizinc refuse Grapes.

81. N. Jarchow writes in the New York
World: '1n the grapevine growing dis
tricts of France the refuse grapes gener-
ally are used in fattening turkeys. They
are given little food besides, but their
principal nurture consists of the remains
Of the grapes, even after being distilled.
cit is well known that the refuse frnit
in cider making can be advantageo.sly
fed to every farm animal and serves TO
stimulate the appetite Of the animals. !
think the grapegrowers of this country
should try to use their waste grapes in
the direction mentioned"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24

How often we hear middle aged people
say regarding that reliable old cough
remedy, n. II. Downs Elixir: "Why
my mother gave it to me when l was a
child, and used it in my family; it al
ways cures 1t is always guaranteed tc
cure or money refunded.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
ESTATE OF JOHN G. WALKER.


Westminster, S..
BY the Probate Court for said district, TO al
persons interested in the estate of John 6
Walker late of Londonderry in said district
deceased, greeting. You are hereby notified
that this Court Will decide upon the allowance o.
the account of John G. Walker administrator OF
said estate and decree distribution thereof 10
the persons entitled, at the session thereof 10 he
held at the inn of rbos. Evans in Towns hent
on the 9TH day Of April A. d. 1893 when ai'
where you may be heard in the premises, If yol
see cause. Zina ii. Allbee Register.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24
Rrnadcasting Wheat.

It is found that in wet seasons wheat
that is broadcasted succeeds as well as
that which is drilled, says American Gull
tivator The reason is that the drilled
wheat is usually covered too deeply.
Drilling is resorted to mainly for the
purpose of distributing commercial min
eral manure with the seed. Then it
pays, but even then the ground must be
rolled to prevent the drill teeth from go
ing too deeply. If all the seed is not COW
cred it does not matter. The smaller
amount planted near the surface will
make more vigorous growth and stand
the winter better.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24

can do much-very much. There
IS when he fatters himself he at
mastery even over nature to a
tent, but then suddenly the wild
H II natures chariot shake their
names and bound forward. Nature scat
tiers blizzard of destruction lightly
from her hand as she rides, and the
earth is covered with impossible snow,
the winds freeze men and animals, and
the most powerful mortal feels the blast
as keenly as the idiot. Nature pours
out little more than the usual quantity
of rain. Rivers roll down in flood, dams
burst their barriers, and thousands are
drowned in an hour. Nature treads the
earth and shakes it ever so lightly with
her footsteps. Earthquakes follow and
tumble mans strongest temples in ruins
upon his head. Let nature pass even a
---~' -~>~o' end men per-
est of them
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24

The original telephone patent covered
all methods for transmitting speech cleo
trically over wire and was issued to
Professor A. Graham Bell. The patent
expires March z.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-02-24

A man who has been hunting around
to find Jay Goulds virtues discovered
that he was never known to utter pro-
fame word, and that he wrote and spoke
capital English"