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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14
Seeing by Electricity.

Morse taught the world years ago to
write at distance by electricity, the tel
ephone enables us to talk at distance
by electricity. and now scientists are
agreed that there is no theoretical rea-
son why the well known principles of
light should not be applied in the same
way that the principles of sound have
been applied in the telephone, and thus
allow us to see at distance by electrici-
ty. 1t is some 10 years since the scien-
tifc papers of the world were greatly
exercised over report that l had filed
at the Smithsonian institution sealed
packet supposed to contain method of
doing this very thing-that is, transmit
the vision of persons and things from
one point ON the earth to another.
AS matter of fact, there was no truth
in the report. but it resulted in stirring
up dozen scientific men of eminence to
come out with statements to the effect
that they too had discovered various
methods of seeing by electricity. That
shows what | know to be the case, that
men are working at this great problem
in many laboratories, and | firmly be-
neve it will be solved one day.-PnOfess-
or Bell ia McClure's Magazine.
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The Devotion of a Canine Mother

Half dozen small boys, shepherd
dog and her five puppies and box of
matches caused $500 fire iii Allegheny
The dog and her puppies We're kept in
a vacant stall in the rear of George w
Evans livery and feed stables on East
street, near Elm street, and the boys
were looking at the pups through a knot
hole in the side of the building, and in
order to get better view of them held
lighted matches to the knothole.- One of
the lighted matches fell through the
knothole into the straw in the stall and
set it on fire. The boys seeing the blaze
ran away for fear and did not give the
alarm The fire was discovered by a
policeman.
When the fire broke out, the mother
of the puppies made heroic effort to
save her offspring and succeeded in car
rying them all to Il place of safety except
one. She had to leap over a high barrier
to get out of the stall, and the last one
she carried out was all ablaze when she
sprang from the flames with it in her
month Her grief at not being able to
rescue the last was evident. and she had
to be held to keep her from rushing back
into the flames for it.-Pittsburg Dis
patch
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14
Women and Men and Umbrellas.

"Woman is said to be mans intellec-
tual inferior" Fourth avenue umbrella
dealer said recently, but have noticed
that in regard to umbrellas and rainy
weather women have ten times more
sense than men. Men will not carry
umbrellas until the rain is actually COM
ing down on them, and about ten men to
one woman come in on rainy days and
buy umbrellas. This is also because
women take better care of their umbrel-
las than men do. Men lose them more
frequently To the average man an UNI
brella is only an umbrella, while to a
woman it is choice piece of personal
property which cost good price and is
cherished accordingly.
"Of course the men who get caught
down town in the rain generally buy
cheap umbrellas. They carry them but
short time and then lose them, so help
ing our trade. One man in this city, a
violinist, buys a new umbrella every
month of his life. His limit in price is
$3.50, and then he does not need to care
whether he loses his umbrella or not
His head is so full of music that he can
not have any other responsibilities, so he
buys cheap umbrella. expecting to re-
place it within month. In the use and
care of umbrellas. women must be given
precedence over the other sex. Louis
vile Courier-J Journal.
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THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
Midway Plaisance.

Those individuals who are 30 unfor.
tunately constituted that they never see
the use of having any fun in the world
have doubtless wondered often whist was
the good of that vanity fair--Midway
plaisance-at the Chicago exposition, If
they only knew it, that agglomeration of
grotesqueness and variety serves very
useful purpose After walking his feet
off and gazing at miles of windmills.
carriages, pumps. ears ana locomotive
engines, after doing the heavy business
in the Fisheries building, the Agricultur-
vi building aud elsewhere. how does the
visitor to the Worlds fair feel? Exactly
rs if he would like to hurl bowlder,
and big one. at the head of the person
who asks him to go to the Womans
building or Art gallery or the COW
show. He glares about him as if he
would like to eat up somebody or some
thing.
At this moment there before his eyes
y Midway plaisance. 1t is journey
around the world, except that, instead of
his marching around the globe, the globe
marches around him, SO to speak. The
anlazons of Dahomey. battle SCARED
and fierce. glare at him. The Irish castle,
with the original blarney stone to be
kissed and make him sweet tempered,
looms up here, with pretty Irish girls
making lace near by. In the Algerian
village monkeys and balloons chatter,
camels aad donkeys look wise, here and
there da1cing girls of the orient go
through their PAGES in a way that is all
the more fascinating to him because he
is not quite sure whether it is proper or
not. JavanesU and Jap, Chinaman, Per-
sian and South Sea islander step out
from the old story books he has read,
and in moment, as at the touch of a
magician's wand. are before him in real
life
He becomes interested in spite of HIM
self. Then he laughs. Then his wclri
ness and grumpiness are gone. This is
what the wise men who planned the fair
meant Midway plaisance for.
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Marvels of Architecture.

Each time | have visited the White
City have been more impressed with its
beauty; each time have wondered again
how anything so beautiful could have
sprung up in the neighborhood of that
smoke begrimed city of huge, ugly build
mgs and of long streets of unbeautiful
houses. Some one has said that while
the buildings of the Paris exposition of
1889 were such as one might expect to
find at Chicago those at the Worlds fair
are such as one might expect to find at
Paris. There is much truth in the re-
mark. and certainly by far the finest ex-
hibit at the fair is the buildings-those
whited sepulchers of staff which but
for broken corner here and there which
reveals their hollowness have all the
effect of substantial stonework.-Cor
Dundee Advertiser.
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Life in Aiaccio is something like that
on board ship. The city square is the
deck, the eating house corresponds to the
saloon. the coffee house is the smoking
room. Private houses serve merely as
berths for sleeping and rest. A great
deal of walking is done by the residents
but it consists in pacing slowly back
ward and forth over a limited extent OF
ground
A hundred yards of promenade, OF
even less, will suffice. The pedestrian
if he is engaged in conversation. stops
often. with the EXPLANATIONS:
Hold Listen!' or That's Just what
| sayr
AT an interesting point In his story he
taps his companion on the breast and
stands facing him for five minutes at d
time, discou2sing fluently.
One day at dinner an English resident
was commenting on this peculiarly to q
number of Corsicans.
Eyes" replied one, II think the Ajac.
clans can beat the Parisians The best
lounger ever met was N N Of
x. once walked with him down
to the bar, and we did the distance in
two hours.
The bar and the square are one hall
mile apart. Studies in Corsica
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FIG. ".

come crisp as fast as they die, and the
dead tips and edges of the leaves curl up
as shown in the upper leaves of Fig. B.
No such mildcw as occurs on leaves suf-
fering from the late blight is ever found
about these dead spots, but a careful ex-
animation does show peculiar and very
characteristic marks. These are faint,
thickened lines or rings in the dead
spots, one ring outside the other, like the
rings on a target board In order to
show this fact more clearly one of the
lower right hand leaves from Fig. is
reproduced in Fig more enlarged and
with these lines traced more clearly.
They are of course shown much more
clearly here than they can be seen in the
actual leaf.
This early blight, like the other disease,
is caused by the attack of fungus, but
one of quite different appearance and
habits than that which causes the late
blight. The branches which bear the
spores are short. and the spores them
selves are dark colored, club shaped and
consist Of several cells, as shown in Fig. s.
In Fig. 5 represents fresh spore; b
and C similar spores terminating.
Another most important difference Is
that this early blight fungus does not at
tack the tubers. We have seen acres Of
potatoes where the vines were entirely
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leaf and feed upon its life Juices. ans
mildew can often be seen ON leaves that
are rapidly blighting, In the morning
when the dew is on, or Just after a rain,
look carefully ON the urler side of the
blighting leaf around the edge of the
diseased spot, just where the black
blends with the green, and this mildew
is seen appearing like delicate coating
of frostwork. Placed under the micro
scope, this delicate mildew is seen to
consist of miniature forest Of slender
stems growing like little trees from the
surface of the potato leaf and bearing
upon their branches egg shaped seed
bodies or spores.
Fig. shows, much magniiied, two
stems of this mildow, with spores at
tached. as seen growing out through a
breathing pore Of a blighting potato leaf,
1t is these pores, produced in i.nmcass
numbers, t,Gt carry the disease from
blightin.; TO oaltay plants These spores
are produced mainly ON the under sides
of the bhght.us leaves, but as they are
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14
July In Paris.

July seems to be fateful month in
Paris. This year, along with the cele
bration July IA of the one hundred
and fourth anniversary of the fall Of
the Bastille, are mingled ominous echoes
of gunshot, saber clank and cavalry
hoof beat from the police, soldiers and
republican guards that were called out
to suppress the riots in the streets.
Paris seems ever ready for mischief in
the month of July. The rioting that
was the beginning of the first French
revolution commenced July 10. 1880,
the sacking of the Bastille following July
IA. July 5, 1899, the French assembly
destroyed the last vestige of the power
of Louis XVI and put France under
martial law. A year later-July ID,
1793-Marat, leader of the terrorists,
was assassinated by Charlotte Corday
in time of frenzied popular excitement.
A year later still-July q, 1794-Robes-
pierre himself was arrested, and next
day-July 2S-was guillotined
Seventy-six years later, still in the
same month of July, occurred the quar-
rel which led to the war between France
and Germany and the loss to France Of
Alsace and Lorraine. 1t was ON July G.,
1870. that NJ Olivier declared in the
corps legislatif that France could not
permit Hohenzollern to be candidate
for the Spanish throne. A week and a
day later-July l4-on the very day of the
anniversary of the fall of the Basti]le,
Prussia withdrew her minister from the
French court preparatory to hostilities.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14

Petition for Divorce.

State of Vermont, Wndham Co. Court, Sep.
TENDER Term, 1888.
William F. starkey, The libellant, William F.
Adie Starkey. titled cause having this
dav filed in the office of the Clerk of the Wind
ham County Court his libel for divorce, return
able at the term of said Court next to be holden
at Newfane within and for said Windham
County on the second Tuesday of September A.
n. 1888, setting forth that he was lawfully mar
red to the said libelee, his residence within this
County, and praying that divorce be granted
him from the said libellee, Adie Starkey, by rea-
son of her wilful desertion of him the said Ii
bellant. And it being made to appear that the
said libellee is now resident without the State of
Vermont so that the ordinary process of this
Court cannot be served upon her, it is therefore
ordered that the said bellant give notice to the
said libellee of the tendency of his said libel
and the term of court TO which the same Is re-
turnable, by publishing the substance of his
said libel together with this order for three
weeks successfully in the LONDONDERRY SITTER
| a newspaper printed ut Londonderry in said
| Windham County, the last publication to be at
least six weeks prior 60 the session of the said
| court to which the same is returnable. Which
| said publication shall be deemed sufficient no.
tice to the said lihellec to appear and contest
| the same shall she see fit
Given under my hand at Bratteboro in said
windham County the 26th day of June \. D.
| lsg3.
ROYAL TYLER, Clerk.
IIa-kins & Stoddard, Alty'- for l.ibellant
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scattered by the wind they fall upon the
upper surfaces Of the healthy leares.
The object of spraying with the bor-
deaux mixture is therefore clear 1t is to
keep the upper surfaces Of the healthy
ledues corered arith thin coating of this
copper compound, tchich is a deadly poi
son to these spores, killing them as they
come in contact with it.
These spores not only fall on the
healthy leaves, but are also washed into
the soil, thus reaching the tubers, and, as
all know only too well from experience,
cause the characteristic dry rot, or in
wet seasons and heavy soils the wet, or
"slush," rot. By checking the disease on
the tops, therefore, this rot is also pre-
vented. Two or at most three applica-
tons of bordeaux mixture have never
failed in the last three years to give us a
crop practically healthy SO far as this
late blight and rot are concerned.
Let us now consider with like atten-
ton the nature Of the ''new disease" or
1.-THE Early Blight"
Everything that we saw in the way of
blighting potato leaves in Vermont last
summer QS92) during July and up to
the 10th of August was caused by this
early blight. The same thing is to be
expected this summer. This early blight
then, appears earlier than does the other
or late blight Moreover, its injuries in
Vermont are mostly confined to the
earlier potatoes. 1t has been seen III
June upon very early potatoes, and fol-
the past two years during the latter part
of July it has been found attack 9
nearly every piece Of early potatoes cx
amined. AS result of its attack the
field as whole has sickly yellowist
tint instead of the rich, dark green Of
the healthy potato foliage. The general
appearance of the affected leaves is
shown in Fig. g. In contrast with the
single large spots of the late blight we
have here many small spots scattered
over the leaves, as shown on the lower
leaves in Fig. 3. These spots gradually
enlarge and merge together, as shown Oh
the upper leaves. The tips and edges Of
the leaf are especially attacked.
The progress cf this disease is com
parativeiy slow. Owing to this slow
progress and to the drier weather the
diseased portions of the leaf dry and be
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14
A MASSACHUSETTS LAWYER.
How Famous Lawyer Passed His Youth
IA The Old EaY Sfaia.

How Famous Lawyer Passed His Youth
In the Old Hay State.
Ex-Governor George d. Robinson,
senior counsel for Lizzie Borden, is of
an excellent type Of true American man.
hood and has fairly won his way to
prominence rs lawyer aud statesman.
His father, Charles Robinson, was a
hardworking New England farmer,
whose farm, of moderate extent, was In
Lexington. Mass. about two miles north
from the center Of the town. Charles
Robinson wss n stalwart. earnest man,
and his wife was of avigorous physique.
Both were of kindly disposition and both
were much esteemed. They had tw
sons, Charles and George, both of whom
became lawyers
The farmhouse was painted white
with green blinds, and wos separated
from the suairy road by white. paled
fence, hehind which YVES n pretty flower
garden o. Sundays Charles Robinson
and his wife and sons We're wont to ride
together in their old fashioned covered
wagon to the little Unitarian church
which faced the village green.
In 1850 or 1856 George d. Eobinson
was student at Harvard college, whence
he frequently went to visit his parents,
generally walking to and fro, the dis
lance being about 10 miles each way.
He was then beardless youth, tall and
spare, but muscular, and wore high
black silk hat and black frock suit.
His step was long, rapid and elastic, and
as he strobe resolutely along the dusty
highway his large, thoughtful, blue gray
eyes had an intense, PARKWAY expression,
as if even then, nearly 40 years ago. he
was striving to fathom the future, which
proved to be so full for him of forensic
and political triumphs.
After he was graduated from Harvard
he became village schoolmaster in what
was then the little town of Chicopee. in
western Massachusetts,, and there con,
tinued the course of self denial and indie.
fatigable Industry which has since made
him famous as lawyer, legislator and
chief executive of his native state. New
York Tribune,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14

If there is any possible solution of the
,ilver question, between the bimetallic
league convention. which meets at Chi
cago July Is. and the extra session of
congress, Aug. I. that solution ought to
be found. Senator Sherman himself
says of the law with which his name is
popularity associated: THE only objec-
tionable feature of the law is the clause
requiring silver purchases. shall vote
for the repeal of that clause myself
On the other hand, the expressed object
Of those who call the bimetallic conven-
ton at Chicago is to take measures to
influence congress favorably toward sill
yer and fight to finish the repeal of the
present coinage law unless some kind of
a substitute is passed in its place.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14

In the latest model for fort building
no iron or stonc work cntersin any guam
tity. The hastily extemporized sand bag
and cotton bale defenses during the civil
war opened the eyes of military engi-
neers to the resources in that direction
Sand. earthworks and cement will fur
uish the environment fer batteries and
guns of all kinds in the new forts.
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COMMIssIONER,s NOTICE.,

WE, the Subscribers, being duly appointed
by the Hon. Probate Court for the District ol
Westminster, Commissioners 10 receive, eN
anime and adjust all claim and demands OF
all persons agail 81 the estate of ihilandcr
Reed t''esof Londonderry IN said
District, deceased, and also all claims and de-
maUds exhibited In Offset thereto; and six
months from the 7th day of July inst, being
allowed by said Court for that purpose, we 10
therefore hereby give NOTICE, that we will AT
tend TO the business of our said appointment, at
the Office of A. L. Cudworth in Londonderry in
said District, on the Goth day of August
and the 25th day of November next, from one
O'Clock until four O'Clock, P. NJ, on said days.
A. T.. Cudworth, "Reminiscences
Lewis N. Vale,
Londonderry N ,Julv H. d. lSg3
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14
The Unknown.

"Yis, Mrs. Muggins, Pat and Oh part
to meet no more. Oi whit to the hos
pital to ak after him. 'Oi want to see
me husband says 1.-The man that got
blowed up 'Yez can't says the doc
thor; he's under the infooence of Ann
Estheticks.' 'Oi don't know the lady,
says Oh, mighty dignified loike, :but if
me lawful welded husband kin act loike
that when he's at dith's door Oil have
divorce from himr"-Newport News
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14

"Be sure you get Ayers" is an impor-
taut caution to all in search of thorough
Unreliable blood-purifier, Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla being the one on which there can be
no manner of doubt. 1t has stood the
test of nearly half century; and has
long been considered the standard.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14

Whether the Duke of York and knight
of the thistle is ever king of England or
not. his noble cousins of the republic of
America wish him and sweet Princess
May more happiness than usually falls
to the lot of royal married pairs.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-07-14

Ayers Pills promptly remove the causes
of sick and nervous headaches. These
Pills speedily correct irregularities of the
stomach. liver, and bowels, and are the
mildest and most reliable cathartic in
use. No one should be without them.
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needed, this last depending of course
upon the weather. Applied thus we
have never failed to check this disease.
But right here we must note the fact
that we have not one but
Two Potato BIights.
Spraying as directed above checks the
common or late blight. Last year, how
ever, we called attention to ''new dis
ease" or early blight, which last sum
mer attacked the earlier potatoes in July
and may be expected this summer. If
we are to hold this early blight in check
by spraying, we must begin early in
July, therefore, before the disease he
gins to spread.
Since, then, we have these two distinct
potato blights requiring different times
OF treatment, it becomes necessary for
every potato grower who is to use the
remedy intelligently to learn to distin-
guish these diseases from each other.
This is not always an easy thing to do.
There are, however, some clearly marked
differences which we will attempt to
make plain with the aid of some figures.
In doing this we will first carefully de-
scribe the common rust or blight, which
we will call, in order to distinguish it
from the other disease,
The Late Blight.
This is the common disease which all
potato growers know only too we'll
Since 1916, the year when it swept away
the potato crop of Ireland and caused
the terrible Irish famine, this plague has
annually reappeared on both sides of the
Atlantic. In Vermont it generally does
not show itself until the warm, moist,
''muggy" weather of early August. Oc-
casionally, however, it begins its attack
the latter part of July, and often it
does but little damage until the lattel
part of August. The date of its appear
ance and the rapidity of its development
are governed by the weather. In favor
ably warm, rainy weather it spreads
with alarming rapidity, so that within
4S hours field of luxuriant green leaves
becomes black and dropping, rotting with
a characteristic offensive odor. In less
favoring weather its progress is slower,
yet its course is always a rapid one.
The disease appears on the leaf as a
purplish. black spot, which rapidly in
creases in size until it spreads over the
entire leaf. AS shown in Fig. 1, the dis
eased spot may start anywhere upon the
leaf, and once started it spreads SO rapid
ly that the base of leaf is often black
and dead while the tip is still green, not
having had time to wilt. This is the
case in the lower right hand leaf of Fig.
1. For the same reason, if the disease
appears at the tip of the leaf as shown in
the lower left hand leaf in Fig. 1, it may
spread over the entire leaf before there
is time for the natural drying and curl
ing up of the dead portion.
This blight or death of the leaves is
directly caused by the growth of fun
gus, delicate mildew, the microscop-
ical root threads of which permeate the
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We knew already we had the greatest
Worlds fair that ever was. The attend
ance early in July shows also that we
have tie greatest crowd to visit it when
we make up our minds to go there in
force Already the number of visitors
for one day has reached 800 600, which
is larger than the heaviest days at tie
last French exposition.