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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07

The council appropriated 1920 to pay
expenses or litig alton in the Decker,
Mullins s. Berry case.
The mayor and city clerk were in :
structed BY ordinance to issue installment
bonds amounting to $j,2S2,5O to pay for
the construction of the sewer in district
No. 16.
Minor Mention.
Mrs A d. Matson notified the council
that she had repaired her sidewalk as
ordered TO do hy the street com missioner,
and asked that John Richie and others
be compelled to d. the same
A b. Whiting asked that Hockey
jim be allowed to peddle soap one week
without a license. The privilege was
granted with the provisO that he Is not
to wear q hook.
A Barton and u. T Mcknight asked
permission to use the City park on Aug
ust II, aud the council took favorable &C
gion the petition.
Joan Scales and others were given the
use Of the City park on August IL, II
and Is.
Rev. p Price and others were granted
the use of the park on Septem Der %.
petition was received asking that
the Sidewalk on East Tenth street, be-
tween jefferson aud Adams streets, be
raised The petition was referred.
E B. Merriam aud others asked that
street lamps be placed at Fifteenth and
aud Sixteenth streets on College avenue.
fhe petition went TO the committee on
lights
d.. IT, w. Roby asked that the city put
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07

Read the wants" Many OF them are
as interesting as news items See = e
il not 50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07

The Topeka Grocery Co bought at auc-
ton a large lot Of California Peaches and
another lot Of California Pears. We buy at
auction and only charge you small broker
age We are to blame for the Low PRICES
Topeka has enjoyed lately.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07
LADIES.

Come and see our Chldren's
Blouse Wallets. We have the
largest line in the city and will
give you some great bargains.
Every body should come and get
our prices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07

Shirts mended by the Peerless
Cut prices on walking shoea-A'ar-
mans.
Tan shoes At cut prices FurmaH'a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07
15c Pr

10 dozen ladies' Black
a splendid bargain,
and worth zoe; sale price
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07
EMBROIDERIES.

The blue pencil Of the
marker down has found
some genuine bargains for
you. In order to make room
for our new Embroideries
next season we have made
sweeping reductions in
which values are lost sight
Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07
PONGEES

Just received from the
mills one case Of Pongees,
in all the new fall shadings.
Price 1870; sold every
where at 15c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07

We have mentioned these
before, but they are so good
we will do so again. Satines
that were Zoe, will go for
ll1c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-07
DOMESTIC DEPT.

We will offer 500 yards
of 32-in. Percale, IN colors
and styles of the popular
Duck Suitings'' at BIC;
ought to bring US 1850.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20

The enterprises established have been
quite varied in character, and it appears
that Is new creameries have been includ-
ed, with 1900 invested, and employing
80 men; six new shops for manufacture
ing butter packages have been put in op-
Grafton, with $4,000 invested, and 80
men employed; four saw and Single
mills, with sll, 800 invested, and 80 men
employed; two gristmills, S4,7O0 invested,
and theee men employed; two canning
factories, with $500 invested, and 20
men employed; two electric light plants,
with $4,000 invested, and IL men en-
ployed; two shops for getting out chair
stock, with So 500 invested, and l6 men
employed !, two shirt factories, with $685.
600 invested, and 109 persons employed /;
three shops for making bobbins and
spools, with sl9, 900 invested, and Al per-
sons employed; three new marble plants,
with $1,000 invested, and 80 persons en-
ployed. Besides these there is new in
vestment in granite of $1,000, and there
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20

At the time of the war between Chill
and Peru, in December, 1879, Chill took
possession of the guano and nitrate of
soda beds which are the chief source of
Peru's government revenues. From that
time to this, under an arrange ment by
which Peru's creditors received half the
proceeds of the guano and nitrate sales,
Chill has kept possession of most of the
beds, though few have been coded back
to Peru. A treaty was concluded in
1888 between the two countries, under
which Chill was to hold the two Peru
Wan provinces of Tacna and africa for
10 years. If at the end of that time the
inhabitants of the two provinces desired
them to be part Of Chilian territory, then
Chill was to hold them permanently, but
in that case Chilli was to pay Peru a
money indemnity. The TO- years have ex-
PRED, and the question should already
have been submitted to the vote of the
inhabitants of the two provinces. But
Chilli, meanly taking advantage of her
superior power, refuses persistently tol
the vote be taken, still keeping possession
of the two valuable districts. There is
no justice in Chili's ;ourse-nothing but
the spirit of pure grabbery-and Peru is
too weak to fight for her rights. This,
torn as she is by her own civil war,
makes the lot of Peru hard indeed. 1t
seems as if the wrongs of the ancient In
cas- and the peaceful Indians whom the
bloodthirsty Spaniards slew without
mercy during their conquest of the coun-
try were revenging themselves on the de-
scendants of those Spaniards.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
are 36 men employed, a new sash and
door shop, with $4,000 Invested, And 5
men employed; $4,000 were invested in

are 36 men employed; new SASH AND
door shop, with $4,000 Invested, And 8
men employed; $4,000 were invested in
fruit evaporating, ahd20 persons employ
ed; new machine shop, with S25, 900 in
vested; $1,000 were invested in a new
limekiln; 80 700, in the manufacture of
broom handles; $4,000, in washing ma
chimes and clothes dryers; one new cheese
factory, with 81 900 invested, $4,000 are
invested, and rs persons are employed In
the manufacture of window screens; and
$4,000 We're Invested in new scale
plant. As will have been noted in the
table, giving the distribution by count les
the State has been pretty well covered by
these new enterprises, and as will have
been noted also, the establishments are
nearly all small, The electric light plant
at West Haven, costing 100000, and a
shirt factory at Brighton, costing $4,000
includes over third of all the capital
invested, and this accounts, in a measure,
for the falling off in the total investment
as compared with preceding years. The
small amount Invested in new granite
work and the absence of investments in
simmer hotels also accounts for very
large portion of the falling off noted. In
view of the fact that the year 1893 was
marked so great a depression in all in
vestments of business, it would, perhaps,
be as p, oper to undertake to explain how
any business had been started, as to at
count for the shrinkage which is found.
That Vermont has been favored by de
gree of prosperity while other sections
have been badly depressed, is strong evil
dence as to the value of investments in
the State, and suggests forcibly the adj
vantage that would follow policy of in
vesting more Vermont capital at home
1t should not be overlooked that Ver-
mont owes its enviable position to the
facts that its interests are so largely ag-
ricultnral, and it's income is so largely
derived from supplying food products.
AS these products have yielded fair prices,
the farmers in town have been good buy
ers of manufactured goods, thus COM
pleting the circle and giving fair degree
of property in all departments. The in
quiry for farms in the State has been
larger the past year than in either of the
preceding years that have had change
of this department. A large number of
these inquiries come from persons who
have been employed in the cities and find
their occupation gone or their salaries
reduced. The West also furnishes a
large inquiry for Vermont farms, and the
steadily increasing sales made from year
to year is the best possible evidence that
can be furnished to show that the low
price of our farming lands, together with
the natural advantages possessed for
profitable farming, is being appreciated,
and that Vermont is not only s'good
State to be born in," but good State to
return to, after the experiment of other
localities has been tried.
VICTOR l. SPEAR, Statistical Sec'y of
Roard of Agriculture, Bfaintree, VT,
April IA, 1894
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
Grants Tomb.

"Why don't you have any soldiers 20
guard this tomby' asked an English
cockney visitor recently. Prince Hal.
bert died two and thirty years ago, yet
FER majesty as 'ad two grenadiers from
the finest ridgiment in Europe parading
back and forth before 'er 'usband's tomb
night and day ever since"
There was sense and reason in the
cockney's question. Two gray coated
park policemen usually hover in the vi
cinity of the little brick cave on the Hud-
son, in which are kept the remains of
the most illustrious American general
after Washington-that is, they are
there when they are not obliged to chase
fast horses on the driveway. The north
west winds whistle dismally through the
bars of the iron grating. Perhaps once
a year, ON Decoration day, the grim pris-
on bars are opened, and fresh flowers are
deposited on the dingy black iron burial
case. All the rest of the year these re-
main, poor old withered things, with
their faded ribbons The dust from the
open drive is cast upon the coffin from
the heels of the fiers which rich New
York gentlemen drive past the tomb
daily. This dust gathers upon the dried
up flowers and upon the ribbons till all
is soiled and grimy.
New York fought hard enough to get
Grants tomb. Now some of those ;icn
men who made large speculation in
property by getting the burial site put on
Riverside driveway ought to take care Ct
that tomb. Maybe by the year 1904 the
monument will be finished if the rest of
the country takes hold and helps poverty
stricken New York state build it. Mean
time where are, the members of the G.
A. R. of New York, and what are they
about? Where are the veterans that used
to stand in front of the tomb and give
New York at least semblance of respect
for the nations hero?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
Anarchists and Farming.

Some queer notions has Elisee Reclus,
the eminent French geographer. He be-
lieves every rood of land should support
its man, and he would have every man
grow his own potatoes and cabbages.
There is a vast amount of land on the
earth devoted to mere pleasure purposes.
The forests that hold game for the
amusement of monarchs and noblemen
Elisee Reclus would have cut down
and the ground parceled out among the
bomb throwers and anarchists and the
starving thousands in cities. Certainly
Reclus is partly right. If you could
catch your anarchist and force him to
go to raising cabbage and potatoes for
himself to eat or else to starve, you
would stop bomb hurting in no time.
There is kindred with the soil in the
nature of man. When he left off the
country life and packed into cities, he
left health behind him. Nervous dis
eases developed. A slum life was evolved
in cities that is more degraded than that
in the lowest savage lands today. If the
dyspeptic millionaire, the bomb thrower
and the dwarfed, miserable slum dweller
could alike be transplanted to their rood
of ground and forced to till it, there are
some economic and hygienic questions
that would settle themselves.
Just enough digging in the soil-not
too much-is the most healthful tonic
for soul and body. Reclus himself, a
geographer and literary man for 43
years, is ready at any time to don farm
laborer's clothing and do his stint at
raising cabbages and potatoes.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
FRIDAY MORNING, APR 20. 1894

Another wealthy farmer has been rob-
bed Of large sum OF inoney-$5 900.
This wealthy farmer was luny enough
10 keep the cash In hts hbuse. Burglars
sUs I'M SEIZED the rich ruralist and began
burning him by touching him up with
the flame Of lamp. They tortured him
till he was forced to tell them where his
money was hidden, and they got it all.
1t does seem as though some people are
either crazy or else they never read tho
newspapers. Time but Of hiihd tRest
friends ~ the bhbiis have been publish
ing warning stories Of how people who
keep large sums Of money in their homes
have been tortured and robbed, often
murdered, yet the warning is not needed.
Especially when persons live in small vii
lagos and In lonely farmhouses it is moth
Ing less than inviting robbery and muir
der to keep so much as 800 in the house.
Even when the money is locked up in a
safe the owner Of it can be tortured till
he is forced to reveal the combination
and give up the kew
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
Mrs. Humphry Wards New Book.


Robert Elsmcre" and David Grieve"
left some doubts in the minds of literary
critics as to Mrs. Humphrey Wards ar
tistic ability. Her new book, Marcel
Ia" seems to have settled this point in
her favor. The critics agree that it is
the greatest book she has written, and
that it places her beyond doubt at the
head of women fiction writers in the
English language. A place equal to that
held by George Eliot will be accorded
her now, but not the same class.
George Eliot and Mrs. Humphrey Ward
are not at all alike. Both are actuated
by a deep moral purpose, but there the
resemblance ends. I'm 'Marcella' Mrs.
Ward has found herself" writes The
Outlook reviewer. Marcella was a ire
mendously in earnest young English
girl who wanted to reform the world.
She thought if she could get laws made
to destroy rumshops and other evil insti-
tutions she would destroy the evil. It is
a mistake the best of women are con-
stantly making, bless the dear sex!
But Marcella found, as every reformer
must, that people are the proper material
to work on, and that when they are
righted the right laws will follow as
matter Of course. Personal influence
reaching from the good to the bad, per-
sonal love, self sacrifice, devotion, and,
above all. love, sympathy, purity and
strength, spiritual and intellectual, work
ing on the minds of those we would re-
form is the way to right society's wrongs.
This is the lesson Marcella learned.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
State of Vermont, |

State OF VERMONT
Westminster, IS. The Probate Court for
said District To all persons interested in the
estate of Leonard Howard late of London.
derry in said district, deceased, GREETING !.
Whereas, Fred c. Dean, Administrator up
on the estate of Leonard Howard late OF
Londonderry in said district, deceased, has
filed his petition in this court setting forth
that the sale of the whole of the real estate of
the deceased will be beneficial to heirs and
all PERSONS interested therein, and praying for
license to sell the saitie, and at the same time
filed in this court what purports to be the con
sent in writing Of all the heirs residing in the
state to such sales. Whereupon it is ordered
that the same be heard at the session of said
court, /. be held at the Probate Office in Bel
lows Falls on the 5th day of May, A. D.,
1864, when anil where you may be heard in
the premises, if you see cause
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
Farm Sales and New Industries In
Vermont In 1898.

From the reports of town clerks, made
for the year 1898, the following compila-
tons have been made with reference to
the sale of farms and the undertaking of
new business enterprises in the State.
During the year, 1889 farms have
been sold, of which 1870. were previously
unoccupied. This, as compared with
1892. shows an increase in the total sales
of GS, and as compared with 1891, an in
crease of 2lS. The sales by counties for
the three years, 1891, 1892 and 1898 have
hepu aS follows.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20

If you have faith in your ability to do
thing. you will be almost sure to sue
coed. If you have faith in another that
he can do a hing, and he knows you be-
heve he can do it, he, too, will be almost
sure to succeed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20

Whatever it may mean, one thing is
certain: The women of America and of
the world were never so restless, so
stirred up in their minds, as they are at
present. New York itself-even the staid
old Dutch Knickerbocker part of it's
. very'hotbed of agitation over various
phases Of the woman question.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
NEW TNpusTRIEs.)

The reports show that SOILS have
been invested in new enterprises that en-
ploy 600 persons. AS compared with the
reports of 1892, it appears that less than
half as much capital has gone into new
business for the year 1898 as in the pre-
ceding year, and that only little over
half as much employment is afforded.
The comparison of the last three years is
as follows capital invested in new bust
ness in 1898, $40l 800; in 1892, $8l3,500;
in 1891, SILL 900; number of persons en-
ployed in new business in 1898, 600; in
1882, LOO; in 1891, 2,l97, The distribu-
ton of these enterprises through the
States by counties is as follows:
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20

There is no taskmaster so cruel as fash
ion. Only they are happy who in their
minds are entirely out from under her
lash.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20

Whether the money in circulation is
gold or silver certificates, the holders of
1t have made no mad rush to the treasury
to get it redeemed in either gold or silver
coin. They prefer to carry the paper.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
Behind Time.

Nervous Passenger-Is the block sys-
tenn in use Oh this road?
Train Boy-Gucsso. l just heard tho
engineer say that the Teller that's work
in us through today is blockhead. =
Good News
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
Faithful nagging tells at last.

Light will be thrown on the interna-
tional financial problem when the secre-
tary of the treasury furnishes the report
he has been called on by the senate to
make concerning the imports of all ma
lions having deprecated paper cur
rency. The imports are to be classified
under different heads, and their value,
turned into the average cash price they
would be worth in the New York and
London markets, reported to the senate.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
Liberation Notice

Notice is hereby given tina have this
day given my soE, FRANK H. Pierce, his
time during the remainder of his minori-
tv, and that after this date l shall pay
no debts of his contracting nor claim
any of his earnings.
Londonderry, VT. April 10, 1894.
JAMES A. PIERCE.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
New Harnesses.
And parts of the same.
New Collars,
Kept constantly on hand

The Subscriber, located one nile west
Of the village of Londonderry, would call
the attention of Farmers aud others
N need of these articles to his Stock con-
fdent that he can make Prices Satisfac-
tory.
Special attention will be given to all
kinds of repairing.
j, II. HAWTHORN.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
Tn. Superiority

OF Hoods Sarsaparilli Is due to the
tremendous amount of brain work and
constant care used in its preparation.
Try one bottle and you will be convinced
of its superiority. It purifies the blood
which, the source of health, cures dyspep-
STA, Overcomcs sick headaches and bilious
ness. 1t is just the medicine for you.
Hoods Pills are purely vegetable,
carefully prepared from the best ingre-
dients.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20

Mother. odd you try to make your
self agreeable at Mrs. Hightones?'
Little Daughter. ''Yes'm; | told her
all the funny things our callers said a.
bout her, and she seemed to be real in
terested." Good News.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20
CASH

oAoI1
Buyers look this over
and decide whether you
can or cannot afford 10
pay credit prices.
Our only terms are Cash
Mems heavy Jersey Over
shirts, 3Sc worth SOC
Mems Jersey Overshirts
at 5Sc worth 75c.
Gents Gary. mix Under
shirts, heavy, 25c.,
Ladies fast black fieeced-
lined Hoes, 10c.
Mems Scarlet, all-wool
Shirts and Drawers, 81 lie.
Atwood black Henrietta,
42c.
Ladies' best white Merino
Vests and Pants, Csc.
Mems red wool Mittens, 13c
Atwood tricot dress Flan-
els, zoe.
3O-ipch printed Chevrons,
&c a yard, worth IL IL.
Mems Rubber Boots 800.
Mems heavy wool Pants $1.5O
Mems red Pontiac Socks 2Oc
American 36-inch Cashmere
zoe.
Ladies Jackets as low as 9l.5O
30 M
We have them in finer quali-
ties cheaper than you would
think possible.
Tubular Lanterns, 29c, Tumblcrs, good
Wash Bowls, Be-, 30 #. Cotton Lines,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-20

Inquiries were addressed to the own
ers of the "List of Unoccupied Farms
issued by the Board of Agriculture in
May, 1898, and from the replies received.
it appears that, of the 10 farms describ-
ed in the list, 3S have been sold, have
been withdrawn from the market, s are
offered at lower price than last year and
5 are held at an advanced price. In
quiries were also made of all the town
clerks and the owners of the advertised
farms as to the value. of real estate in
their localities at the present time, as
compared with one and two years ago.
One hundred and eighty-ntne answers
were returned to this inquiry, of which
ll6 gave the value as unchanged, 40 that
it was higher, and "a that it was lower.
This difference in opinion, quite likely, is
due to the difference in the standpoint of
the observer, and is likely to be a fairly
correct estimate on the subject for the
different localities.
OF the farms advertised by the Board,
26 owners reported that they had had no
inquiry for their property. All of the
others had received one or more letters
from the advertising, and total of 1926
inquiries had been received. Of the total
number of unoccupied farms sold during
the year, the distribution in the several
counties is as follows:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-12-08

10 cents to 50 cents yard. Less than two yards will do for each handkerchief. If you do not want to go to the expense of the lace, you may embroider an mi tial in the corner of tho handkerchief, but that will be slow work for some of you.
 A very pretty gift can be made of three such wooden rings as are some times used in gymnasiums. My rings cost me nothing, for my brother gave them to me, but they can be bought at the art stores cheaply. However. the cost is trifiing. and all that is needed besides the rings to make a substitute for a towel rack that is prettier than most racks is 2 1s yards of l 1s inch ribbon. The ribbon is cut into three pieces, and a ring is fastened to the end of each. Then the free ends arc joined, the join- ing covered with a bow and the whole suspended from the wall. The towels arc then drawn through the rings, and if they are pretty towels tho whole is ornamental as well as useful. You can get huckaback toweling by the yard at from 15 to 35 cents. Hemstitch tho towels at the ends exactly as you would hemstitch a handkerchief all around. then initial it, and yOu can fit up your rings with three towels for from 4j cents to S1.05. The whole outfit, rings and towels, need not cost more than from sl to S1. 50, and this would include the floss used in embroidering the ini-
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