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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
BONNEVILLE.

Mrs. A. A. Benson is on the sick
list,
S. b. Castle returned a dozen or
more colts, that he has pastured this
season, to different parties in Manches-
ter last week. One colt got his lee
broke by getting his foot through a
sluice.
A. d. Leonard has trapped one
more bear, making four. This one is
a cnb.
Harl Benson is at work for Harri-
son Burbee in Windham, He don't
expect to work at his tnade, painting
and mason work until next spring.
Fl. F. Duane is going to move &c
Wells soon, He takes out the ma,
chinery in his mill here, he having
formed a partnership with two men il
that place and they will get out chail
stock. The timber will be mostly oak
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
MANCHESTER CENTRE.

Mr., and Mrs, Louis +, Wilcox of
Hoosick Falls, N. Y, are visiting at
w. A. Adams,
p. NJ. Williams is visiting friends
in town,
Albert Gosselin Of Chicago, H.,
is making Manchester friends visit.
DR.. and Mrs. Wyman are at the
Worlds fair.
Charles Wilson is visiting friends
in New York. city.
j. c. Doty and wife of Albany,
n. Y, are boarding at Thayer's
Hotel.
L. W. Boyle has moved into G.
b. Cartoons house at Manchester
Depot.
w. II. Fullerton has bought the
house lately vacated by L. M. Pratt
and expects to move his family Nov
/.
j. I. Bentley has moved his fami-
ly into his new house at the Depot.
Jacob Bennett of Weston has
moved into the house lately vacated
by L. W. Boyle.
j. A. Swart of Pawlet has begun
his labors as pastor of the Baptist
church here.
Who says a public office is public
trust ? The Bennington county
States Attorney thinks not. AT
least he was full number of times
last week and in one of his carousals,
it is alleged, he he did some strange
things and created considerable dis
turbance otherwise. He was hung
in effigy here Monday night. Can
you beat this in Windham county !?
Another correspondent sends us
the following:
The early risers of Manchester
Centre Tuesday morning we're shock
ed at beholding what Appealed to be
the sad remains of an ill-spent life.
suspended from telegraph pole in
the vicinity of the postolfice, but up
on investigation it was found to be q
life-size portrait of the States At
torney with bottles protruaing from
pockets and depending from arms
and neck. 1t was disgusting sight,
but not as degrading in efigy as tc
see a brilliant young mind sd muddled
with rum as not to know whether he
is married or single.
The efligy was removed by thu
selectmen and we hope the office will
be made vacant by an outraged com.
mnnity.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
JAMAICA.

III. H. Reed and wife have returned
from their Chesterfield, N. H., visit.
G. w. Holton and wife have re-
turned from their visit at Shushan,
N. Y.
The drama, "Gyp the Heiress,' last
Friday evening was well played and
the hall was well filled in spite of the
weather, which was quite rainy. They
repeat it this week Friday evsning.
Fred Smith and family have moved
to Newfane.
A bear has been seen in town, and q
number from here with dogs and guns
went for him, but came back without
seeing him.
Lila Savage is on the sick list.
The Baptist church and parsonage
are to receive a new coat Of pant.
Mrs. Hattie Amsden is passing the
week with friends at BrattlebOro.
Alonzo Starks and wife have return,
ed from the worlds fair.
Aurora Frost, who has been passing
number of months with her sister al
Bellows Falls returned home Tuesday
Our old merchant, James A. Muz-
w, is still to continue trade here at his
old stand, he having bought back the
store and takes immediate possession.
Mrs. Jarad Sage fell last Saturday
morning and put out and broke her
hip. 1t was well and skillfully set by
DR.. c. S. Brigham. She vas living
with her daughter, Mrs. George Wy
man, which secured her good care, but
she passed away Tuesday eve. She
was the widow of the late Jarad Sage,
an old residant Of this town. She was
over so years Of age and leaves many
friends here to mourn her loss. Funer.
al services were held Thursday
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

Professor Joseph B. Witherbee, writ
ing in The Popular Science Monthly,
calls for universal reform in penman-
ship. He says the demand among bust
ness men now is for style Of penman.
ship that can be written rapidly and
that can be easily read. The present
fashion, with its sloping letters, is SC
far from meeting these requirements
that commercial firms complain boys
now do not begin TO write so well as the
boys Of a generation ago did.
The kind of hand that will fill the bill
Professor Witherbee finds in the straight
up and down style, the letters being
written without tendency to slant in
any direction. He claims that this is
the natural style, and that the slanting
chirography is only obtained after long
and painful effort ON the part of the pu-
pill. The vertical handwriting is much
more easily read than the sloping one,
just as the plain letters of ordinary print
d1t iiicIt easily ltdu lletu ltstHco.
In England the reform has so far pro-
gressed that the civil service examiners
require the upright writing on the part
of applicants and will accept no other.
This is on account of its greater legibil-
ity. Vertical style copybooks have al
ready been published in England, and
on the whole we may look upon this as
the handwriting of the future.
The turning down by the Roman in
QUESTION of st. George Mivart and his
theory that there can be anything but
unhappiness in hell takes away the last
drop of consolation from some people.
Father Clarke of the Jesuit society in
forms the public that Mivarts view is
condemned alike by the congregation of
the inquisition and the congregation of
the index, as contrary to Roman Catholic
teaching. As faithful Catholic, there
fore, Professor Mivar. vii, now have to
give up his doctrine as erroneous and de-
clare that it was all mistake-his al
lowing any comfort whatsoever. to the
inhabitant of sheo,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
WARDSBORO.

Philetus Wall carried load Of win
ter apples TO Brattleboro last Monday
Earl Simpson was surprised by q
party of his young friends, the evening
of the 2Sth, it being his fifteenth birth.
day.
Lyman Holden and wife we're il
town Sunday.
John Farnum from South Hadley
Falls, Mass, is visiting relatives and
friends in town. He came up on his
bicycle, making the journey in IL
hours
The Ladies' Aid Society hold a faiI
in the near future.
| wish through the SITTER to thank
the good people Of Bondville and vicini
ty for generous patronage and courte
Gus treatment for the days | was with
them with millinery goods. | expected
to find good and | found it in abun
dance. If | had gone as a reformer OIL
a revivalist it might have been differ
ent. | certainly found none Of the
elements Of depravity that are CREDITED
to that village.
Mrs. A. /. Howard,
Wardsboro, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
The Silver Fight,

Not since the war has there been en-.
gendered in this country so much bitter.
ness of feeling as has been aroused by
the silver question. Even as then, states,
families, lifelong friends, are divided
among themselves. The eastern states
have in general little conception of how
desperately in earnest the common peo-
pie of the west and south are in this
matter. 1t seems really a fight of the
rural districts against the large cities,
and again contest of the west and
south against the east.
While the senators of Tennessee were
fighting against repeal, the business men
of Memphis sent to congress great pc
tition asking that repeal be passed forth.
with. Chicago manufacturing and COM
mercial firms were among those petition.
ing for repeal. When they learned this,
the trades assembly of Denver resolved
forthwith to boycott the firms that de-
manded repeal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
. FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. 3, 1898.
Do Your Work Wei,

Half the people in this life make fail
ures of their careers because they never
cultivated the habit of doing small
things well. In his secret heart prob
ably no man thinks his ability has ever
been recognized at its true worth. He
is employed at small tasks, working for
small pay, when to his mind he ought to
~ doing great things, getting high
wages. Nine times out of ten, perhaps,
the man who thinks this neglects in con-
sequence the small, humble task he is
set to do, He despises the business that
brings him bread, He gets only cheap
wages; therefore he will give cheap
work. He is discontented, he is unhap-
Ply, he is ready to strike, change his bust
ness or even to slight his tasks to the ex-
tent of cheating his employer as far as
he dares without getting himself dis
charged. By and by he does get him
self discharged, Then he rails at fate
and rich men worse than ever.
No man ever succeeded in life who
did not put his conscience into his work,
whatever it was. If you agree to per-
form certain labor in return for certain
wage, however small, you have sold your
time and your ability. Do that work
the best it can be done. Form the habit
Of putting the best of yourself into all
you do. Work with enthusiasm over
the small tasks that are your lot at
present, always in hope that greater
ones will come to you by and by. They
will be sure to come. Many time the
small task, done conscientiously and
with enthusiasm, itself affords the very
clew to the greater task and the larger
remuneration. But it is absolutely GER
tain that no man who has not the habit
of doing his best on whatever work he is
engaged on will ever fill any high place
whatsoever. 1t is not in the books that
he should
Let us always be ON the lookout for
grander opportunities. Life would not
be worth living except for that. But let
us at the same time strengthen ourselves
to seize the great opportunity when it
comes by making the most out of our
small opportunities. 1t is the only way.
1t is the meaning of the saying: Unto
him that hath shall be given Know
this: In the grand roundup each indi-
vidual comes much nearer getting just
what he deserves than is generally sup
posed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
LONDONDERRY.

w, W, Lilley is stopping at Maple
Farm.
Mr.. and Mrs, George Shattuek re-
turned Monday night from visit to
Boston.
Weber c. Jaquith goes soon to
SaXtons River to school,
Fanny Pierce returned Monday
from visit to Bellows Falls where
she went with Mrs. +. Allen Pierce
and family.
Rev. S. A. Parker Of Bethel,
State Missionary for the Universalist
church will speak in Union hall in
this village Sunday, Nov. 3, at 80
o'clock, p, m. We hope to meet all
the friends of the cause at the meet
ing,
The ladies of the U, ii. Ii. society
met Wednesday, Oct. 20, with Mrs.
A. III. Stowell, who made it very
pleasant for us as she always does on
such occasions. The next meeting of
the society will be with Mrs. George
Howard, Wednesday afternoon, Nov.
Sth. All are cordially invited.
Willis Wyman and wife have gone
to Winhall to work for the winter,
l.. z. Sheldon and ID. w. Parker
of North Bennington visited in this
village a few days last week,
Congregational services at Union
Hall next Sunday at II q. m.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
The LONDONDERRY SITTER,


Rev. A. w. Ford of Windsor will
occupy the Nj. f, pulpit next Sab
bath on exchange with the pastor,
Geo. ). Curtis and wife have re-
turned from their visit to Boston and
vicinity,
Frank Rawson and wife of Worces-
ter, Mass, are visiting friends in
this place and vicinity,
Painter Austin spent few days in
Troy, N, Y, lastweek.
The cheese factory closes today,
Win Belden has returned from
Hoosick Falls, whittier he went a
month or more ago. He reports bus
mess at standstill in that place.
S. M. Hobart of Westminster is
making his many friends in this place
and vicinity brief visit.
j. b. Wolthen went to Barre yes
terday. Mrs. Worthen continues to
improve slowly from her severe ill
ness.
Our good neighbors, over the way,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albee, returned last
evening from six weeks visit with
their friends in Massachusetts.
The new dramatic hall is nearing
completion. New scenery has been
ordered and will be here in about ten
days, and the club are making prepa-
rations to put on fine play in the
near future. Our citizens will give
them arousing reception and crowd
ed house without fail.
Frank Barrett and wife of Madi-
son, n. H., are visiting with II, r..
Darling's family. Mr.. Barrett has
sold his property in Madison and will
seek new field in which to locate.
Many friends in this, his native
place, would be pleased to see him
again resident of Londonderry.
The many friends of Milon God
dard, who has been working in Wal
lingford, Conn, for the past three
years, will be panied to learn of Sc
rious accident he met with several
weeks ago, by the explosion of gas
pipe. He was quite seriously burned
about the hands and face and barely
escaped death. One man working IL
the same building was instantly kill
ed. Mr.. Goddard arrived at his
mothers last Friday and is in a suf-
fering condition.
Several from this place attended
the dramatic entertainment at Weston
last evening.
Martin Hoskins has gone to Brat
tleboro to run his hulled corn business
this winter. His family will remain
here.
The following are among the regis
tered at the Peabody House during
the week:
NJ Morphy, G D Brown, Putney
j o Kimball, Enosburg Falls; Sey
mour Bagg, Ludlow; ] H Chapman
Bellows Falls; Z Estabrook, Man
chester Centre; H d Reynolds, Erv
ing, Mass. H 0 Peabody, Simons
vile f Sharp, Springfield; Geo /
Hit, Brattleboro; Chas Huist, Lans
ingburg, N Y; j Twombly, Boston
C L Hall, Dover; J K Batchelder, |
+ Davis, Arlington j M Southland
New London Z A Wilson, Boston.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
CHESTER

There will be an old. fashioned
spelling match by the public schools
November 10 at the town hall.
The Baptist society is having the
church organ repaired.
The firemen netted about $50 from
their recent ball.
A single trial of DR.. Henry Bakers
Mandrake Bitters will convince any one
troubled with eostiyeness, torpid liver or
any kindred diseases of their curative
properties. They only cost % cents per
bottle.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
WESTON.

David Persons from Putney was il
town the first of the week.
The remains Of Fred Sheppard from
Saxtons River were brought here tol
burial Monday.
VIM. Moore and daughter, Mrs.
Watsons, from Pawlet were in town
the first of the week.
Mrs. Jay Wilkinson has returned
from Gardner, Mass, where she has
been to visit her sister.
Geo. Bolster and wife from East
Dover have been visiting friends in
town the past few days.
j. A. Bolster bought the Dean
place that was sold at auction last Sat.
urday for eight hundred and one dol
lars. He has sold his place in the vii.
lage to G. F. Mansur, and will move
to the Dean place in the near future.
w. S. Foster has moved his family
to Ludlow
Singing school Monday and Friday
evenings. Everybody come.
VIII and John Moore from Pawlet
we're in town the first of the week.
The dramatic Entertainment given
by the members of the high school
drew full house last evening Thurs
day.. The play, "Brac, the poor
house girl" was good one and was
well'rendered by the club, although
most of them were young and with
little experience.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
BELLOWS FALLS.

The State Missionary, Rev. Mr..
McGeorge will hold a series of meet
ings at the Baptist church through
the month of November.
The Vermont Farm Machine Co.
have cut down TO nine hours begin
ming Nov. i.
Apples plenty in this vicinity 81 80
per barrel. Potatoes 80 cents. Pork
way up out of reach Of poor folks.
Work scarce, many men idle.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
Downs Elixir will cure any cough o
cold, no matter of how long standing.

Even the New York newspapers said
a good word for the Worlds fair when
they We're trying to boom Manhattan
day. If they had done SO from the be-
ginning, they would now have the salts
faction of knowing that they helped by
their influence the greatest enterprise
ever undertaken under the auspices Of
the fair arts of peace. The success OF
the exposition would then have beer
even grander than it was. As it is, sew
eral New York editors can only remem-
Der to the latest day of their lives that
the worlds greatest exposition was a
success in spite of them.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
The Basoues Again.


! saw an article in last weeks SIF-
TER that was, to me, very interesting
in relation to that obscure nationality,
"The Basques," and it is not generally
known that the Basques had numer-
Gus colony in North America. The
Esquimoux or mnuits who had ira
dition that they came to Labrador from
the far Southwest and were driven to
the North by red men who were more
powerful than they. These red men
were evidently fosters and the fore, ia
theirs of the American Indians, the
race that forced the Chinese to build
the great wall. The race that in two
thousand years crowded the Aztecas OF
Aztecs from three thousand cities and
towns in Western and Central North
America to Mexico and South Amer
lea. The race that pushed the mtrpled
Norseman and the frey Dane from
their shores What wonder that the lit.
tie colony of Basques fled to the far
North aud found shelter amid the al
most eternal SHOWS of Labrador. In
In 1882, | think, a vessel going to the
north launched at several points in
Labrador, and Basque sailor from
the Ural mountains on board found but
little difficulty in conversing with any
of these curious Northern people. Thi,
fact is recorded in American antiqui
ties, thus showing the great age of the
Basque language.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
MANCHESTER.

Mrs. r. c. Gray is visiting hel
daughter, Mrs. W. II. Hills of Prov
idence, r. l.
VIM. b. Edgerton was admitted
to the bar recently at Montpelier.
Rev. Mr.. Haskins of Abingdon,
Mass, will supply the pulpi5 at the
Congregational church this winter.
Mrs. VIM. B. Burton is visiting
friends in Boston this week.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

Year by year the time Is cut down by
pecan steamers in their passage across
ihe water. If an outsider tries to ascer-
lain how it is done, he finds that it is all
mystery of triple expansion engines,
high, low and intermediate, double end
cd boilers set in batteries of six, twin
screws working through apertures in the
stern frame and smoke tunnels 100 feet
high and 81 feet in diameter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
Special NOuces.

The subscriber would announce to the
ladies of this vicinity that she is prepared
to do all kinds of frst-clasS dreSSmaking
and begs to solicit share of their pat
ronage, Rooms at residence of Arson
Chadwick, Landgrove, Vt.
HATTIE CHADWICK.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
PERU.

Mrs. Katie Hunt has gone to No.
Adams for few weeks.
Mr., and Mrs, M. j. Hapgood
have returned from the worlds fair.
James Roby and wife from Spring
field have been visiting Mr.. Roby's
brother, Rodney Roby.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
LOCAL SUMMARY.

Landlord Strong has been on the
sick list for few days.
Postal clerk Gassett and his better
(not bigger half are settled down to
housekeeping in the Tyler tenement.
Postmaster Holton and wife of
Jamaica visited last week with Mr..
and Mrs. j. o. Lanphear of this
village.
Mrs. Susan Wilbur, who has been
spending some little time in Brattle-
boro, has returned to her home in this
place.
L. P. Sheldon of North Bennine-
ton, who made flying visit to this
town the latter part of last week, gave
the SITTER a pleasant call.
Mrs. M. j. Lawry of Fairfield,
Me-, is visiting with her friends in
town.
The many friends in this place of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Greeley of
Chester, were pleased to see them
among us again, they having made a
brief visit here this week.
Lawyer Cudworth attended the
session Of the supreme court at Mont
pelier. Mrs. Cudwolth accompanied
him and came home indispossd, but
yesterday was better.
The Baptist parsonage is receiving
thorough fixing up including coat
OF paint on the outside, painter Brown
doing this part. The inside work.
including papering and painting, has
been done by the ladies.
E. S. Tins, who has been spend
ing several months with his sister.
Mrs. E. A. Brooks, left Tuesday
morning for his home in Ohio-going
SO as to vote for Mckinley next
Tuesday.
Our neighboring town of Windham
has had big revival this fall, some
twenty-five additions have been made
to the church. The seven day Ad-
ventist have also been holding meet
ings in the west part.
Elmer Lampson has moved into
bis new house. Elmer did quick
job and has a good looking house or
will be when painted.
Charlie Belden's crow has come ia
grief and, unless he has mended his
ways, is now doing his pilfering on the
other side of Jordan.
DR.. Twombly, chiropodist, is now al
he Jamaia House ready to remove
all corns and other exeresences. dirt
excepted, from the feet, and guarantees
to do it efectually and without pain.
Don't limp around any more but take
advantage of this opportunity.
The b'hoys were on a foot Tuesday
night and the goose hung high, and so
did Dawes wheelbarrow the next
morning. But why druggist Smith
should think of tapping OUT his sugar
lot is as mysterious as the fact that
butcher Lanphear should think his
cart would drink from the watering
trough.
We receive all sorts of addressed
letters and papers, but one received
the other day from the Golden Gate
fairly takes the cake. 1t was adj
dressed to "London Diary Sitter,
South London Diary, vt"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

The Belgian suffrage law fills the die
tum of Allen G.. Thurman that intelli-
gence and property should rule the coun-
try, and more too. In Belgium intelli-
gence, property and matrimony rule the
country. There graduates of colleges
md universities may vote twice. a
married man of 80 may vote twice. A
married man with given amount of
.property may vote three times. Any
man 25 and over may vote once.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

Nobody will grudge to Charles w.
Ferris the $260,00O clear profit which his
great wheel has made at Chicago. A
good share of the money will go into
Ferris own pocket, one may hope. The
wheel had first to clear its own cost
1890, 1000, then to pay the fair author
tiles so per cent of the receipts. When
1t is remembered that the great revolv-
Ing circle has done all this and yet paid
the profit mentioned, one may guess at
the business it did.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

gB@MAN and WOMEN WANTED. / want
a man with small family Off any) to go on
my farm near West Chesterfield, n. H.,
one that understands taking care of COW,
and can do farm work. To the right par.
ty | will give good chance. The build
ings are good and everything convenient
| want them right away. Come and see
me or address me by letter.
G. p. ellison
West Chesterfield, n. II.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03

On account of the stringent money
market and the rulings of the pension de-
partment, the subscriber will refuse to
take any more paper rags after this date.
Silver, gold or bank bills will not be re-
fused on all accounts now standing on the
books. Respt. Yours,
JONAS HILL,
Bondville, Sept IS, '93.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-11-03
LANDGROVE.

There will be a pie sociable at the
hall Saturday eve, Nov. 4. All are
cordially invited The ladies of the
society will furnish pies for those who
come in from out of town.