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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25

A good cook is a treasure mistress
rarely wishes to offend. How often
does one hear woman say something
like the following, after recounting
faults Of most serious character ON the
part Of her cook; "Still cannot afford
to part with her, for she is far better
cook than can get elsewhere. She sat
isles my husband better than any we
have had, and you know how difficult
he is to please, There is no peace if his
dinner does not please him."
''If woman is at the mercy of the
cook, and she is not good" as writer
have already quoted has remarked, "her
table will soon become intolerable Bad
soup, soft and fiabby fish, meat burned
outside and raw within-the husband
will soon fly from the Barmecide feast
and take refuge in his club, where he
will not only find food that he can di.
gest, but at the same time fly from the
domestic discord that usually accom-.
panies i'll cooked victuals at home"
Bad cookery may seem small thing
in comparison with other evils, but the
results are as dire as those that followed
the proverbial lost nail in the horses
shoe-wasted incomes, impaired health,
drinking habits, family discord. Bad
cookery, more often than not, causes
"the little rift within the lutte" which
by and by makes the music Of married
life mute Whom God hath Joined in
matrimony i'll cooked joints and ill
cooked potatoes have often put asunder. "
Nineteenth Century.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
Apriyate Roof Garden.

Those who find the city hot, dusty and
intolerable have probably never spent al
afternoon or evening amid the many
''roof gardens that are really the sum
mer quarters of numerous Bostonians
One of these gardens was recently visited
when the rays of the western sun were
the longest. There, under wide spread
ing awning the hammocks swung, and
steamer chairs with head and foot rests
We're most invitingly scattered about
There was little table covered with
novels, and stacks of papers were weight
ed down with souvenir stones that told
stories about Block island, Nova Scotia
Montana and Colorado. Another little
table was we'll supplied with delicious
drinks and dainty edibles. Around the
edge of this aerial abode boxes of flowers
bloomed in profusion.
There were quantities of sweet peas Of
every hue, and the chimney was covered
with trellis Of scarlet runners. Bache,
lor's buttons gayly firted with the mod
est pansies. There We're gorgeous mas
turtiums and long box of mountain
ferns; also clump of morning glories
that had climbed skyward to the top OF
the trelis. But it is at evening that the
roof garden is pleasantest, especially
when lighted by the moon and when dis
lance lends enchantment to the numer-
Gus street bands.-Boston Courier.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25

The dangers that lurk unseen in the
air form the subject of an essay by NJ.
de Nansouty on The Atmosphere of
Large Towns and Micrography." He
points out the increased pollution of the
air in Paris from the factories worked
by steam machinery and remarks that
vapors which contain sulphur are spe,
cially disastrous to the lungs, since the
sulphur which they contain is trans
formed into sulphurous acid and then
into sulphuric acid, which falls back to
the earth with the rain and fog. An
analysis Of dust particles reveals that a
remarkable collection of diverse objects
may be absorbed at every breath in the
street of large city-silex, chalk, plas-
ter, pulverized rock, charcoal, hairs,
fibers, vegetable refuse, starch, pollen
cells, etc. A specimen of dust collected
from furniture on the third floor of a
street in Rennes contained all this and
nearly 5000, 900 bacteria in addition. A
gram of dust about Is grains) in move
ment in the streets incloses about $780,
900 bacteria. The dust of houses, then,
is far more dangerous NJ. de Nansouty
concludes that it is of incalculable i'm
portance to devote incessant attention
to the number, quantity and nature of
those microscopic beings which surround
us.-London Hospital.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
Fighting Machines.

II Is becoming more and more appar-
emit that the battles OF the future,
whether on land or sea. will be largely
contests OF maohines with machines.
The development of modern weapons
has gone on at such a pace that ID seems
not unreasonable to predict that before
long what will be required of men who
fight battles will DO more than anything
else, thorough knowledge Of mechan-
ism In short, they will be, to a great
extent, mechanics and engineers. Al
ready the modern naval vessel has be-
come what may be called simply fight
Ing machine, all its space not required
Tor its men and officers being taken up
with intricate and complicated maohin-
cry for doing things which were In the
old days done by the men, or It
undone. Indeed the modern war-ship
has grown SO complicated, and now It
is said many Of the older officers Of
che navy are meeting with consid r
able difficulty in keeping abreast of the
improvements, and that the younger
men. fresh from the study OF science
and with more ambition to spur them
On to further study, are coming rapidly
TO the front in consequence. 1t seems
that future naval victories are to DO
won, not b. Ne side that has the strong
est and bray men necessarily, but by
the side which has its men best pro-
tected from the machines Of the enemy,
and is Itself provides with superior ma
chimes. All this, Of course, will inevi-
tobly bring more and more into promi-
nonce thu maehinist and engineer, and
II is beginning to be recognized that
some additional effort must be made to
secGle the best of both on war vessels.
"A uelican Machinist.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
Board on Mississippi steamers.

The great Mississippi steamers which
used to run as far as New Orleans and
the accommodation ON board, which was
simply magnificent, had ceased to ply
when the war broke out, but on numer-
Gus occasions l was able to avail myself
of the elegant comforts to be found on
board river steamer. The fare on
board the American steamers l always
found plentiful in quantity and tolera.
BILE in quality; still 1t must be admitted
that there were many stock jokes cur
rent as to the meagerness Of the pro
visions supplied by the steamship com.
pany to their guests, and among these
was story about Barnum, who, de-
manding once beefsteak at supper, had
handed over his shoulder by the negro
waiter piece of rather thin and GER
tainly overgrilled flesh, which he de.
scribed as resembling in form and color
an Ethiop's ear. "Thats what I mean, =
quoth the great Snowman; "bring me
some" He professed to regard the
Ethiop's ear as only sample CT the
steak that was to come.--G A. S. Il. il
London Telegraph.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
GREAT YEAR FOR MOSQUITOES
It's the Female Birds That Make All {,
Trouble Saws One Expert.

It's the Female Birds That Make All the
Trouble, Says One Expert.
Mosquitoes? Well, | should say So"
exclaimed genial Captain Veazey OF the
steamer Enoch Pratt. He had been asked
if this was a good season for the birds.
"Why, there are billions of them down
in the tidewater counties of Maryland
and Virginia. We caught it at Deals
island recently. There was land breeze,
and the mosquitoes swarmed about the
boat. Every one was lean and hungry
and seemed to want square meal ana
from the way we felt when we got away
they must have got it. They are bod
in Somerset. I've got farm four lailes
from Princess Anne and wanted to go
up and see if my wheat had been har-
vested properly, but was afraid of the
mosquitoes. haven't been yet"
Just why the mosquitoes are so nu-
merous this year no one seems to know.
A great many persons attribute the in
crease to the warm, wet spring, while
others say the mosquitoes are just like
peaches after two or three yearsin which
they are comparatively scarce there will
bea tremendous crop. This was the view
taken by a party of steamboat men who
sat on one of the wharves along Light
street yesterday and grumbled about the
hot weather. Amosquito which had just
arrived on one of the bay boats landed on
the neck of one of the party'and was get
ting his or rather her dinner when she
was killed by vicious swipe of her vic
tim. There's another 'skeeter done
for" remarked the murderer, with salts
faction. He won't bother anybody else
in this yere vale O tears"
"She, not he" corrected another.
Don't you know that he 'skeeter new
er bothers anybody? It's the females
that make all the trouble in this world,
and that applies to 'skeeters' just the same
as it does to women. If all 'skeeters'
were hes we wouldn't have any trouble
from them, just the same as if all human
beings were men we'd have things more
quiet and peacefullike. A he 'skeeter'
doesn't live long. Go down along the
water in the spring and you will see bill
we call them. But you can get right in
among them and have them so thick
around you that you can't see through
them, and you will not be bitten. They
only live long enough to provide for the
next seasons crops, and then they die,
leaving the she 'skeeters' to make man
kind miserable till cold weather comes"
Baltimore Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
aonie Firm Signs.

An obseryant drummer says he can
readily tell who is the boss on the farm
he passes, the farmer OF his wife. If a
farm has large barn and Il small house,
the man is boss, but when there are a
fine house and dilapidated barn you
may know that the woman has her own
way. Where there are new house AND
a good barn, it may be taken for granteo
the man and woman are about &c aai in
authority. YoSN sun
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
Mr.. Roberts, Check For a Cent.

A few days ago story was published
Of a check for cents drawn on New
York national bank and posted as curl
osity in the Office of heavy broker ir
Wall street. 7. P. Roberts of this city
has a draft which as a curiosity out
ranks the A cent check and is on par
with the famous Bank of England note
for penny.
From 1885 to 1888 Mr.. Roberts was
postmaster at Hazen, N. D., and on Jan.
1, 1891, in settlement of his final account
with the authorities at Washington, he
received draft ON the postmaster at
Chicago for cent and signed an impos.
ing formal receipt, which was sent back
to Washington. The draft was in the
usual form, and the paper on which it
was engraved must have been worth
nearly its face value. Check marks upon
it showed that it had passed through
many hands, and it bore the signatures
of those high in authority.
A careful computation shows that the
issuing of that draft for 1 cent cost the
postoffice department in time and wages
at least S14. Mr.. Roberts has been Of
fered SEQ for it as a curiosity, but says
he won't part with it for several times
that sum. Some time after he got
the draft Mr.. Roberts received a Motif
cation from Washington that unless it
was presented within six months il
would not be paid without renewal, but
he never has been reduced to such finan-
cial straits that he was compelled to
have it cashed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
FRIDAY MORNING. AUG. 25. 1904

So it will remain outstanding, to be
carried ON and ON in the books of the
department, causing profanity among
the clerks who are making up the bal
ances and inquiring comments by new
sets of officials tho come into Office with
the changes Of government. Mr., Rob-
erts will continue to be creditor of the
federal government in the sum of cent.
--Paso Robes Moon.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25

In New York the average Sumber
persons to dwelling is 1871.
The favorite flower Of the Princess
Wales is the lily of the valley.
Do not clean the gravy ladle by scra]
ing 1t over tho edge of the tureen.
The heaviest British wood is that {
tho box tree, which sinks in water.
A woman may be n ''mother" to a
the little waits in her ncighborhood.
The longest bridge in the world, owe
the st. Lawrence river, is OLA feet.
Pronounce the letter in words wher
1t occurs, as in "arm," girl" rubber.
In Siam the kings head has to b
shaved in tie presence of the assemble
nobility,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
What ID" Soa Take

Medicine for? Becau you are Sick and
want to get wei, az because You wish to
prevent illness Thea remrtnbr .hti
Hoods Sarsaparilr Cures al dj@aasy~
caused by impule blood and d, billy 81
he system. Its not what its prorrietors
say but what Hoods Sarsaparilla DOES
that tells the story of its merit. Be sure
to get Hoods, and only Hoods.
Purely yegetable-HOOd's Pilis-25c
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
II Was n Warm Day,

Mrs. Nouveau-Marie docking up from
the morning paperi-We are not fash
ionable, Henry. We shoul be divorced,
OF separated; don't you think so?
Mr.. Nouyeau- Mar EYES, my dear
I'll go with you.-Pu X,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25

Arnica & Oil Liniment is very healin g
and soothing, and does wonders when APP
nlicd 10 old sores.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25
Cottolene
A SHORTENING.

Down the street through the busy way
A lady passed on marketing day.
Who, pauslng at a grocery store,
Stepped quickly in at the open door.
With bated breath and anxious mlen
She queried: .'havey you CoTToLENE?"
The grocer, leaving off his work,
lnteuogated every clerk;
But none up to that time had seen
An article called" COTTOLENE."
"What is it,, said he to the dame,
THAT answers to this curious name.
What is it made Off What's its use?
My ignorance you'll please excuse"
"You're not the merchant for my dimes,
| see you're quite behind the times.
For COTToLENE, I'd have you know,
Is now the thing that's all the go,
An article of high regard;
A healthful substitute for lard.
Its composition pure and clean;
For cooking give me COTTOLENE."
AS from his store the lady fled,
The grocer gently scratched his head
On his next order, first was seen,
some dozen cases COTTOLENE."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25

COUGHING LEADS To CONSUMPTION
kemp's Baisam stops the cough
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-08-25

I need not go back and show you Zen
obia or Semiramis or Isabella a. even
the woman Of the text as wonders of
womanly excellence or greatness when
in this moment point to your own pic
ture gallery of memory, and show you
the one face that you remember SO WELL
and arouse all your holy "reminiscences,
and start you in new conservation to
God by the pronunciation Of that tender
beautiful, glorious word, Mother, moth,
a,.ts,
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-02-15
NORTH CAROLINA ASSEMBLY,

Following is brief summary of the
bill now before the Legislature recurring
railways to furnish separate cars for
whites and blacks: Equal accommodate
cations IN separate cars or COmpart-
mcnts of cars for white and Colorcd pas
sengers, this not to apply to sleeping
cars; conductors to assign passengers to
their respective cars; any passenger re-
naming IN car, etc, other than that
to which he has been assigned to be
guilty OF a misdcmeanor; conductors,
etc: clothed with power to eject; unlaw
tul for both races to occupy same car; all
seats and cars to be comforta able.
The members of the Legislature who
succeeded i'll carrying the day in the con-
test ia regard to the public printing say
that the new plan of letting out the
work will save the State S4, 800 annually
On the other hand, some of the oppon-
ents of the new plan assert that it will
open the door for jobbery.
In the House Monday the bill to
amend the insurance law by creating an
insurance commissioner was introduced.
There was considerable debate on bill
to require State inspection of illuminat-
ing oils, but it was tabled. A bill passed
making any violation of the insurance
laws a misdemC amor.
The joint Committee on Railways has
agreed, by unanimous vote, to report
unfavorably the bill requiring railway
companies to furnish Accommodations on
their trains for any express companies
which may apply for them.
The committee on the Confederate Sol
dier's Home decided to report favorably
the bill making $4,000 annual appropri-
alton and $4,000 this year for improve
ments.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-02-15
YOUNG MEMS INSTITUTE
Officers and Committees tor the
Ensuing Year


At the meeting of the Young Mems In
stitute last evening the following Off
GERS were elected to serve one year:
Prcsident-Dr. NJ. w. Alston.
Nlce-president-J. c. Randall.
Recording secretary-P. ]. Swepson.
The committees as at present consti-
tuted are:
Membership-Isaat Dixon, =. |. Swep-
son, VIM. T. Fletcher.
Reception-C. w. knuckles. A. Black
well, G. l.. Forncy, b. l.. S. Horne, Frank
Cogwell, Eugene Morrow.
Lecture and Samuel
Rogers, Carl Dixon, ]. {. Randall, p. /.
Swepson, G. l.. Forncy. VIM. Sloan.
Rooms-Not yet appointed.
Employment and Boarding House
J. S. Morrow, A. Blackwell. Duff Erwin.
Visitation of Sick-A. G. Chambers.
Abram l.. Byers. T. c. Hamilton.
Boys Work.. p. Wingatc, Richmond
Martin.
Devotional-L. w. Watson, {. b..
Dusenbury, NJ. NJ. Jones.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-02-15
WOULD COST MILLIONS
But If The Mones Comes Soutr, q,
Course ITS o. k

WAsIIINGToN, Feb. 15.-Mr. Oats cot
ton tax bill has secured a favorable re-
port from the majority of the House
committee on judiciary. The bill pro-
Yldes that the tax collected by the United
states during the war times on raw cot
ton shall be refunded in the event that
the United States Supreme court holds
the laws under which the tax was col.
lected to have been unconstitutional.
he bill authorizes any person who
paid a cotton tax duty. to bring suit for
IL IN the court of claims, against the
cuited States for recovery of the money
right OF appeal to the United States Su.
Prene court beng given to each side to
the SUIT. one test case is to be made
ana no other cases tried unless the Su-
preme court decides the taxing act 70 be
unconstitutlonal. If the act be declared
Invalid, the court of claims shall try
every cotton tax suit commenced
within one year after the decision of the
United States Supreme court. Bynurn
VIII put IN minority report end will
probably be joined by other members of
the committee.
10 refund the cotton tax would cost
the government some millions of dollars
and this doubtless will be sufficient to
prevent the bill passing Congress at this
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-02-15
AT THE BATTERY PARK
The Valentine Hall E:uJo,cu Lsst
Evening.

The most notable event of the ante
Lentcn season was the Valentine ball
given at the Battery Park hotel last
evening. There were twenty weight cou-
pi's on the floor, and the evening was
one OF the most enjoyable in the big
hotels history. The lerman was led by
+. ii. Branch. During the evening re-
treshments were served
Among the participants were: Dr..
and Mrs. Hunter, of Oakland Heights;
Mcsdames Lyman. McLoud, Crabbs,
Rumbough and PIatt; Misses Rum
bough, Robinson, Reynolds, Norwood,
Acheson, Chiplcy, Powell, Hunt, Wad-
dell Cartmell. Branch, Douglass, Perry,
Bearden and Stedman; Messrs. p. ii.
Branch, White G. Smith, B. M. Jones,
Ed. Zones, Thos. Ransom, Harry Rum
bough, E. H. Rumbough. c. w. Murphy,
J. McNeely, Alex. Webb. Geo K. Collins,
W. Gushing, J. G. Merrimon, Wright
Stedman, F. I, Bacon, Roy Dennison, d.
w. Furman, !. L. Houston, Bonnell and
Waite.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-02-15
". NJ. G. "A. NOTES
Dr Thomas Hume's Lecture Fri
day Evening

day Evening
DR.. Thomas Hume, of the UNIVERSITY V
ofNorth Carolina, will deliver his lecture,
"Shakespearian Side-Lights on English
Literature in the lecture hall of the y.
NJ. {. A. on Friday evening. the 18th.
VI the lecture the Saratoga, n. V, Daily
Union says:
The large company of guests at DIR.
Strongs celebrated resort, representing
the culture of every section, had a rare
literary treat last night in Il lecture on
Shakespearian Side Lights on English
Life by Dr. Thos. Hume. professor Of En-
gllsh literature in the University ofNorth
Carolina. President Warren, OF Boston
university. asked permission at the close
OF the lecture to express his enthusia st ic
appreciation of the charming style IN
winch so much information and inspira-
ton had been impaired. and his purpose
to begin anew the study of the history
plays of Shakespeare"
Business men and others will find the
gymnasium in the Y. M. c. A. good
place in which to spend an occasional
hour There are many who come to the
city TOR physical benefit who might be
helped very much more by regular cxer-
clse IN the gymnasium under PERSONAL in
struction. Physicians recommend this
means of cure very often and especially
SO as the work done in association gym
nasiums is to build up the body, and
not to encourage fancy athletics.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-02-15
THE MILITIA.

ALL abstract from the latest reports
transmitted by the Secretary of War to
Congress, shows the North Carolina
militia force to be as follows: One gen
cral; 20 members of the generals staff;
| caN"Iry, . commissioned and = non.
commissioned officers, musicians. %
priNatcs--agSreSatc cavalry. 81; artil-
le5y, 4 reg'mcntal staff, II company
officers, l musician, 2O6 privatcs-
aggregate 200; infantry. rs regimcntaI
LOO company officers, 324 non-comnis-
Sloncd officers, l1O musicians, 1,134
prlvates i, 1l6 aggregate. The aggrc-
gate force of the State is 2,O36.
Capt. A. NJ. Izlar. of Knoxville.
Tenn, but formerly of Marion, has sued
the knoxville and other papers Tor pub
llshng an item about his leaving k,0x-
vile under cloud. The papers, learning
that they were mistaken, have since
retractcd, but Capt. Izlar still sticks to
his determination. Tue Marion Record
is one OF the papers entangled.
Mr.: {. a. Tuck, a tobaoc co grower of
Granville county, went into a bank and
cashcd Il $500 check for tobacco he had
sold on the market. He left the bank
ana walked one block to the revenue
ofhce At the latter place he found that
the $500 dollars had slipped through a
hole IN his pocket and was lost
The only avowed candidates for the
collectorship of the port of Wilmington
are Col. t. w. kerchner and Capt. w.
X. kenan and Col. l.. ID. Hall. The office
is worth So 800 annually.
Since the completion of the 3 C's to
Marion the express business has doubled
at that point, and is now larger, the
Record says, than at any point betwecn
Ashevillc and Statesville.
The Statesville cotton factory is still
forging ahead. The payments began
has been subscribed and every day new
shares are taken.
"A postoffice to he known as Balfour
has been established in Henderson
county, with William b. Troy as post
master.
AT the annual dinner of the New York
Southern Society, February 22d, Senator
Vance will be one of the speakers.
Judge Boykin, of the Superior court
OF Wake, has resigned.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-02-15
MIR. CLEVELAND'S CABINET
FOUR NAMES OEEICI AN
NOUNCED
Gresham, Carlisle. Lamont and
nissell Arc the Ones AumOunc-
ed, And the Others viii he Given
Out when They Accent.

LAKEWOOD, Feb. 15-Clcveland Off
cially announced the names of four mem
bers OF his cabinet this afternoon. They
are: Walter Q. Gresham, of Illinois, Sec
retary of State; John G. Carlisle, OF
Kentucky, Secretary of the Treasury;
Daniel S. Lamont, of New York. Secrc-
tary of War; Wilson 5. Bissell. OF Buffalo.
Postmaster General.
vi the announcements Mr.. Cleveland
said: There is no need of anv mystery
IN regard to the cabinet. | shall an
nounce the names of the gentlemen SC,
lcctcd to fill the positions as fast as re-
ceive their acceptance and permission to
make the matter public"
1t is evident that Hokc Smith, Hilary
a. Herbert and others who have been
are still under consideration.