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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
The Danger of Trivial Mounds.

A medical paper commits itself to
the statement that many lives are lost
each year in consequence Of the lack If
little common sense respecting simple
cuts or wounds of the hands or other
parts. Several cases have been record
ed of inquests relating to persons who
have died from blood poisoning arising
from small cuts on the hands. The his
tory in all of these cases varies but lit
tie, and it is practically the same. A
man, for example, while working at his
trade, or even while carrying out the
simple detail of cutting a piece of
bread, receives a small cut on the hand.
The injury is so trivial that anything is
considered good enough with which 10
stop the bleeding, and this end having
been attained no more is thought of it.
The small wound is left to take care of
itself and is exposed to all sorts of filth
mess and sources of infection.
By good luck nothing may happen.
but the public would do well to bear in
to the skin acute septicamia may sup
ervene and may rapidly be followed by
fatal termination. By thorough at
tention to cleanliness the untoward con-
sequences of wound liable to become
infected can be effectually prevented.
On the other hand, when the septlcamic
attack has declared itself, as rule,
little can be done by the surgeon to
stem the virulence with which it de-
velops. 1t should therefore be borne
in mind that SO long as wounds, how
ever small, remain unhealed, the risk
of contracting blood poisoning will al
| ways be present.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12

An interesting question of state and
national jurisdiction will come up fol
settlement in congress this winter. The
legislatures of Virginia and South Caro-
lima have given permission to foreign
company to land upon their shores az
ocean cable from Brazil. In the Unite
States senate Mr.. Frye of Maine has in
troduced resolution which will bring
up the whole question Of whether an III
dlvidual state has the right to grantsuc
permission. During the Harrison admin
istration both Secretary of State Blaib,
and afterward his successor, Foster. dc
clined to allow the foreign cable con
pany to land, refusing the request on liz
ground that no United States cable com
pany would be allowed a landing on IL
coast of Brazil
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12

The G.. o. M. of the Republican party
of Pennsylvania is evidently Galusha A.
Grow, who foated into vacant candi-
dacy for the Fifty-third congress by the
unanimous vote of his constituents after
he had been out of politics for IS years.
In 1875 Mr.. Grow refused the Russian
mission, which of itself was an uncom-
monty strong minded act. Standing tall,
erect and with flashing eye, without a
sign of physical weakness or failing about
him, as he appeared in the convention
that recently nominated him, it was hard
to believe that this man had been speaker
of the house of representatives at the
memorable session of congress which
met July 4, 1861, suddenly summoned to
take measures for the preservation of the
Union. Yet such was the fact. Mr..
Grow is 70 years old. He began politi-
cal life very early, which makes him
seem to the younger generation about 90
years OLD. But he is only 10 and re-
markedly vigorous and well preserved
He was elected first to the Thirty-second
congress in 1850 and was the youngest
member of that body. From the Thirty
second congress in 1851 to the Fifty-third
in 1884 is long stretch. This will
make the seventh congress of which Mr.
Grow has been member.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
ramping and Ramming Borehole.

An innovation in mining work is an
invention for tamping and ramming
boreholes. The hole itself is made of
smaller diameter at the inner end
where the cartridge is placed. A small
wood disk rests against the shoulder
made by the smaller hole and protects
the cartridge. The tamping consists of
blocks Of compressed clay, which are
broken up in the hole by the rammer
The disk, blocks and rammer head are
all perforated so that they can be thread
ed on to the fuse wires. Clay blocks
are made at very cheap rate by sim
pie machine, and by their use uniform
ity in the tamping material is secured.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
Pathology and Ephebics.

We don't know whether you have any
children or not, but if you have do not
bend them to school another day till you
lind ont whether their teacher under
stands psychogenesis, pathology and
ephebics. These are vital to education,
President G. Stanley found it out. 1t
WAS good Of him not to keep it to him-
self, but to tell in The Forum all tie,
world about his find. The professor
wants teachers and parents TO study the
children. While the young ones are I'M,
Her years old, the investigation INFO
their thoughts, words and deeds is call'd
psychogenesis. After the age of 4, how
ever, you must not call this child study
psychogenesis any more, on pain Of los
ing caste as an intelligent human being,
You must now say pathology. You keep
on with pathology till the youngster is 10
or IA. Then apparently SO many new
elements of depravity break out tina,
you must get new name for your child
study, and thenceforth call it ephebic3.
Ephebics lasts from adolescence up to
full nubility," when, thank heaven, we
are done.
Professor Hall skips embryology and
psychogenesis and jumps bravely into
pathology at once in The Forum paper.
He informs us that the pathological ex-
perts commence their task with the
physical measurements of school chill
!dren. The thing began in Boston, of
course. Of "a, 500 pupils in the Boston
public schools who were measured as
to their height, weight and periods of
growth, it was found that the children
of American parents were both taller
and heavier than those of foreign par
entage. This disproves the theory that
the American people are deteriorating
physically. Further, the children of
parents belonging to the laboring classes
are not so tall or heavy as the children
of nonlaboring parents. Country chill
dren are taller than city children of the
same age.
1t is found that apparent mental dull
ness is often the result of defective hear
ing, which teachers ought not to forget.
When child does not grow any through
a considerable period, it is sure sign
that something is out of whack with
that child's health. Nasal diseases seela
to be associated with weakness of men,
DRY and attention. One concludes from
a reading of Professor Halls paper that
the studies of childhood which he pro-
poses would really be very useful, pro
vided hewould only call them something
English.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
The Ling ofneils.

The Titan of Bells, tho King of Bells,
the Great Bell Of Moscow, etc., as vari-
ously known, has probably been de-
scribed a million times. 1t was cast in
l73a, part of the metal used being from
tho fragments of The Giant, one of the
former monster bells which havo made
Moscow famous. Tho King was only
in use five years before it net with an
irrepsrable accident, having huge
piece broken from its side during the
great fire of 1887, 1t is now ON the
ground and will probably never be re-
paired and hung, as it would be impos-
sible to do so without recasting il.
During the present century this mon
ster bell itself is said to have been used
as a church, the three cornered break
in tho side serving as a door! This story
is not at all improbable when we con-
slider its gigantic proportions, which
are as follows: Height, 10 feet inches;
circumference around the margin, so
feet and 0 inches! The weight of this
colossal folly" has been variously csti-
mated by different travellers and au-
thors, but as it has never been set down
at less than 443, 900 pounds / am per-
iectly satisfied to give the minimum es-
innate, which is 240 tons!--St. louis
Republic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12

-..uA., W., Uitvi0 aIe sUieulu moments IN
all our lives when we go off to ourselves
and abuse ourselves with all the invec-
tives in the language for being the great
est fools that ever breathed the air of
this free country. You do-you know
you do.
Still, would you like to be somebody
else? You would like to be as handsome
as this person, as famous as that one,
probably, or as rich as third one. But,
on the whole, is there any one individual
alive whom you would change with, You
turning exactly into that person, ex-
changing all your drawbacks for his?
No? We thought so. Well, then, don t
grumble, but go on and do the best you
can, making of your life the grandest
structure you can with the tools at your
command.
Do the thing that's nearest,
Though its dull at whiles;
Helping when you meet them
Lame dogs over stiles.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12

49,. y, ...n We uaIn auuuU uou being pleas
ed or being angry, that is another thing,
| for God must be beyond change and the
sway of the emotions. If He is 'angry
with the wicked every day." and there is
"none good, no not one," then he must
be angry all the time and be pleased with
no one.
To say there is more JOY in Heaven
over one sinner that repents than over
ninety-nine that need no repentance, is to
offer a reward to the fellow who waits
until the eleventh hour. The vilest sin
ners that ever disgraced the earth, men
whose hands are dripping with the blood
of their fellow men, are sure to repent
on their death-beds or under the gallows,
as did Guiteau, with Jesus name on his
lips and the rope around his neck.
Frank STEERS and Harvey Pate, two
young men, were hanged at Dam lille, Ill.
on the Sth of December for the murder
and robbery of farmer Helmick last Au-
gust. They repented, believed en- Jesus,
were baptised in large bath tub and
dropped from the scafiold singing ''Near-
er My God to Thee
Pate said 81 would rather have my
chances for the future than that of half
the people of Danville'
And STEERS: s'Life is sweet. but the
certainty of going to heaven is sNveeter.'
They expect more happiness than nine
ty-nine fellows that have behaved them
selves all their lives.
If we live an earnest, kind and devoted
life our reward will not come from God
in heaven, but from the consciousness of
merit within our own souls. Jesus died
the death of a noble truth seeker, passed
on to the other life, and left behind him
the pathway to that life, but you and
must travel every step of the way our
selves.
Instead of saying vicarious atonement
is the law, we would say individual re-
sponsibility is the law. Whatever comes
to us in this world or the next comes be-
cause it belongs to us, because we de-
serve it, and no power can ever take it a.
way from US.
JOHN WILLIAM.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.
u'IiE
What They Would 10,

W sANs A'Ny " N"'N N's
A reporter of the Chicago Tribune has
been asking number of rich business
men of that city what they would do il
they found themselves suddenly stranded
without cent and with no work Phil
Armour replied that he did not care to
be interviewed. 1t is rather surprising
how many of the others speak up in
stantly and affirm that first of all they
would get out of Chicago. Others re,
mark with the same emphasis that they
would not come to Chicago. On the
whole, the Windy City seems poorrncH
for man to wrestle with poverty, -
Lyman J. Gage, president of the f
National bank, said in reply to the qucs
ton: "The Lord only knows! l would
try to get work. If that failed, l would
beg But don't know. think, though,
! would get out of town. When man
begins to beg, it breaks his spirit" A
big wholesale concerns head man" said:
would ask for work from door to door and
tell the people didAtwant anything unless
could get II by work, would make that plain
II tried all day and was still hungry, would
Twas Twas and an what had tried to do and then put
his religion to test. think l could get out
OF town oy 5nat a. ieas. we. wou,ant DC IKE
after another asking for money. told them
If they would shovel the snow from The side,
thew all met in front Of nv window and T rou
should have seen how they leered at me. The
iaea OF 'ne'r working was an Insult
melville H. olone' seiierai manager Vi
the Associated fress' sala'
Lhat Is the way came 10 omcago, stranded ,,l.
Ikept moving. know. however, that com
bination of circumstances will often confront
an honest and capable man and render him
penniless. For such. think, there should be
a home provided by the stateor city until they
could get work. We should make such people
the wards of the state. The Others should be
offered some opportunity of showing their sim
cerity. do not take much stock in that beau
tiful sentiment. s'Thou shalt 90 hungry. but
thou shalt not steal" But, understand me.
bunoer is no eycuse for crime T think tbe
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
WHAT IT COSTS TO run" MONACO.


The People Pay No Taxes and Have No
Voice In Public Affairs.
The report current some time ago
that the Prince of Monaco intended to
resign as head of the greatest gambling
state in the world and devote himself
to the pursuit of science, his favorite
pastime, has apparently proved to be
unfounded. He earns his money too
easily in his present place and evident
ly has little intention either of giving it
up or of driving the heads of the gam
bling society from his dominions.
Monaco" says the Statsbuerger
zeitung, has 1000 inhabitants. In
1914 Talleyrand wrote in the diplo-
matte act which was to regulate the
conditions of all Europe, And the
Prince of Monaco returns to his states
In 1915 it was further decided that the
existing relations between France and
Monaco should cease and that thence
forth the king of Sardinia was to play
the part in the principally formerly
played by the house of Bourbon. Then
in 1860 Monaco exchanged the Italian
protectorate for the French protector
ate, and maintained its privilege-de-
spite the protests of the public press
and the powers-of giving an asylum
to professional gamblers and spend
thrifts in its gambling hells, because
France did not wish to interfere in
the internal affairs of Monaco
! IAN idea of what colossal sums of
money are lost in Monaco can be gath
cred from the last report of the Societe
Anonyme des Bains de Mer ct du Cercle
DIES strangers, the gambling society.
The gains last year amounted to more
than 23, 900, 900 francs. The capital of
the company is 80, 900, 900 francs. For
each of the last six years the company
has set aside reserve fund of 1000,
900 francs. In 1918 this reserve fund
will amount to as much as the capital.
The Prince of Monaco, who married a
Hebrew lady, receives yearly allow
ance of 1880, 900 francs. In addition
to this, the company pays all the gov
eminent expenses of the principality,
attends to the cleaning of the streets
and provides the waterworks and light
ing of the public thoroughfares. The
public has free schools and has no taxes
or other levies to pay, but it has also
nothing to say regarding public affairs.
The society pays 100000 francs an
nually to the theater, the public or
chestra costs as much more, and the
officials of the society, including over 100
croupiers, cost annually over 1,500,-
900 francs. To the press the society
pays 800, 900 francs. Among the reg
ular expenses are the OUTLAWS for remov-
ing unhappy victims of the games. The
total expenses of the company amount
yearly to II, 500, 900 francs"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
rtumb1ing Lectures on Science,

Nothing can surpass the patience of
the British audience at certain Of these
lectures. We have been present on one
such occasion when a distinguished,
but perfectly unintelligible, member of
the royal society engrossed the attention
of about 900 ladies and gentlemen from
s o'clock until 10. What he was say
ing no one knew. He mumbled on unre'
mittingly, and the company loudly ap-
plauded him in the intervals, when he
drew breath for fresh lease of inco-
herence. But he held long rod in his
hand. and periodically he raised it and
pointed at an enigmatic agglomeration
of lines, which were believed to be an
illustration This of itself alone would
have satisfied his audience, coupled, of
course with the spectacle of his own re-
spectacle person. And when the lee
ture was over and the secretary compli-
mented the old gentleman on his most
instructive discourse there was a rush
of eager seconders of the resolution and
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
Written for the SITTER.
OLD THEOLOGY.
Some Ideas Not Laid Down in the Accep.
ted Creeds of the Day.

Some Ideas Not Laid Down in the Accep.
ted Creeds of the Day.
Whenever there is a great tnancial de-
preston old theology always makes a
protracted effort to save souls, If you
accepted the conditions of belief then you
were religious. If you refused them, and
were not firmly planted on the atticles of
| faith, and attentive to the theological
| creeds, no matter how good, how honest
how pure, how earnest you were, you
still lacked the one thing needful.
The question was, "Do you believe in
| God?"
But what kind of God do you mean?
The evangelical theologian SAYS:
"There can be but one kind, soar
Godw
Although there are many hundred
forms of religion, whichever one the peo-
pie themselves believe in is the right one,
to them, and all others are wrong, no
matter how well satisfied the others are
with theirs
| Theologians tell us there are three
Gods in one, that one is equal to three
aud the three are equal to one, but it is
not definitely settled which is the one.
They only declare that the Son is equal
to the Father, and the holy ghost COM
prises within himself, itself or herself
| (there ought to be female in the crowd)
all the power and glory of the other two.
But if there be supreme being, there is
no room for three supreme beings. If
there is but one who holds all worlds and
their inhabitants in his hand, there can
not be two others to assist If supreme
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
The Greatness of New Jersey.

Those who have been inclined to think
small potatoes of the state of New Jer-
sey may put aside their sneers. We
cheerfully pay tribute to her worth,
wealth and dignity as revealed in the re-
port of the Farmers Institute and Bur-
lington county boards annual conven-
ton at Mount Holly. We learn from
this report that New Jersey farms have
declined in value because their owners
put too low an estimate on them. Per-
haps this is the case elsewhere as well.
When farmer only asks $50 to $50 an
acre for his land, according to the Bur-
lington county board, the would be buy
er thinks there must be something mean
about that land and passes on, whereas
if $500 an acre was charged he would
think it really worth having and would
not rest until hs had made it his own.
We offer the suggestion to land owners
elsewhere.
We are glad to learn that visitors to
the Worlds fair "were lost in astonish-
ment" at Jersey products-we are in
deed. Some of these products are cab
bages, of which one market gardener
alone has shipped this year $4,000 heads.
New Jersey is the boss state for aspara-
gus, too, that often clears to the man
who cultivates it $3.50 to the acre.
But most Of all the Jersey dairyman
is to be appreciated, not because he fur
nishes to Philadelphia half of its milk
supply, but because here at last is farm
er who has beaten the middleman. The
Dairymen's association report that their
organization now fixes its own price aud
has increased the gains to the farmer / /
per cent notwithstanding thecost to the
consumer. The middle milkman who
hereafter sets foot in JERSEY is to he com
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12


The Burden Iron company of Troy,
N. T., is signal illustration of the
good feeling that once in awhile exists
between employers and employed. Tn
til recently there had been no reduction
in wages at the establishment in 10
years. Then one evening the proprie-
tors called their $500 men together and
told them that lowering of wages 10
per cent was necessary ON account OF
hard times. They asked the men to sub
NIT to this for the present, depending on
the firms promise to return 10 the old
scale as soon as business warranted Tie
cut was accepted without hesitation and
next day the mills were running as usual.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
Who Would You Like to Be?

Few of us are perfect beauties. Still
fewer of us are as rich as we would like
to be. We have not very good health.
Our friends do not always treat US as
well as we think they ought to. We are
not conceited enough to believe we are
very wise, or eloquent or gifted-at least,
most of us are not. Some people may
modestly claim that while they are not
beautiful they are good, but the writer
and readers of this have not even that
satisfaction. We have not been lucky.
Moreover, although we know we are not
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
Indian English.

Speaking of the English used by the
natives of India, Mr.. Chenery once
showed me letter that he had received
from an eastern parsonage. 1t began,
Enormous MisteY- But once saw
still more comical title bestowed upon a
worthy gentleman who had no especial
rank or official position in the country
where he resided. A foreign traveller
thought plain Sir, OF Dear Sir" look
ed bald and uninteresting at the head
of letter, so he began courteously-
as he thought-his letter: "Miscella-
neous Sir-As l reported on the last oc-
casion, etc.-London Gentlewoman.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12

The bill for an income tax is now be-
fore the house of representatives. 1t ex-
empts all incomes below 5000. 1t is
safe to say that more than Lalf the peo-
pie of the United States will not be af-
fected by it, If passed in its original
form, this bill will raise fund for the
annual payment of pensions--that being
expressly stated.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12
Farwell began his career as poor as the
poorest. His answer was as follows:

1
l came here virtually in that condition in
January, 1874. came in here from Ogle coun-
ty on a load OF wheat. l had $40 and nothing
In sight. | gave it to woman who gave me a
room and board until / could get work.
walked the streets of the city until June ! in
search Of work There were not many business
houses here then. went to all of them.
walked miles to the factories. Nowhere could
i get promise. | stuck to, it, however, and
finally got a job in the county clerks Office at
a salary of SIS month and board. But realize
there are thousands here who are not as fortu-
nate as was. had $40. They haven't cent
If were in that condition, would go to the
county agent, end would tell him, which is
fact that the people of Chicago and Cook coun-
ty are taxed to keep people from starving
would demand work in the poorhouse or on
the poor farm, and that would keep me from
begging until could do better. If the poor
house and farm were filled, would demand of
the agent bread and place to sleep, and he
would have to see to it that got both as long
as | showed by my acts l was deserving ana
trying to get work.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12

Valiant, the Paris dynamiter, used to
live in this country; but, like most of his
brethren and sisters, he restrained lis
propensity to throw bombs in the Yam
kee republic. He is remembered as hay
ing lived in Santa Fe 10 years ago, where
he gave French lessons, although he vas
, tanner by trade. After few months
at Santa Fe the tanner teacher dropped
out and went to old Mexico. 1t is said
that he could scarcely make his living.
Perhaps that is why he turned dynamiter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12

There is something queer about that
Wilson tariff BILL Every manufacturer
Is quite willing a duty should be put
upon articles manufactured by mis- neigh
Dor in some other line, but he is abso-
lutely certain it would ruin the country
If his kind OF goods is levied on.