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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31

sitting and In soant vocabulary talked
over the Samoan troubles. We saw one
soldier who had been shot in the foot,
and he was limping along leaning ON
an assistant Four men were killed last
night in a skirmish, and another skir-
mish is to take place tonight. There are
natives who do not want to pay their
taxes, and their various grievances have
been summed up, and young warrior
wants to get the throne and introduce
the millennium.
A long continued struggle is opening.
Meanwhile a German and English man
of-war is in tho harbor, and an Ameri-
can manof.war is expected soon. What
will be the result no one can prophesy.
But this is certain-this island and all
the. group Of islands are suffering from
/ foreign interference. 1t is common
saying among the natives that first
comes the missionary, then comes tho
merchant, then comes the consul, then
comes the man-of-war, then--oh, myi
Why should three great nations like
the English. German and American
stoop to such small business as to be
watching with anxious and expensive
vigilance these islands for fear that this
or that foreign government should get a
little advantage? Better call home your
warships aud leave all to the mission
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31
An Old Shoe an Unsafe Safe.

An old shoe containing six diamond
rings and brooch set with diamonds,
valued in all at $500, was given away,
with its mate, to poorly dressed young
man few days ago, and now the Gen
mantown police are looking for the
man, the shoe and its contents. Mrs.
Walter Leonard Of Germantown was
called to the door by tramp, who ask
ed for pair of old shoes or some dis
carded mems clothing. She told the
man to return later, when her husband
would be home. The visitor called at
the time set, and Mr.. Leonard went to
one of the upper rooms and took from
one of the closets two pairs of trousers
and two pairs of shoes and gave them
to the visitor.
About a half hour later it dawned
upon Mrs. Leonard that she had placed
a portion Of her jewelry in an old shoe
belonging to her husband, and she went
up stairs to ascertain if he had given
the shoe away. She looked in the closet
and found the shoe had disappeared
Her husband started in pursuit of the
man, but was unable to find him. The
jewelry had long been in the possession
of the family. The Leonards are said to
have had some experience with burglars
and had adopted this plan of checkmat-
ing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ledger.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31

disappointment expressed at the after
performance of the birds of their prog
eny simply from carelessness in their
management The best flying tumblers
In the world, if left to fly at will, will
rapidly degenerate. Each f1ier has its
own little details of management, which,
after all, matter very little The essen
tial point is that, in beginning to train,
the birds are only let out occasionally,
say every three or four days, and when
hungry, be it morning or evening The
reasons for both precautions are, first, the
previous confinement causes them to fly
actively at once upon being liberated,
and, second, their appetite leads them
to a quick return as soon as they have
had exercise enough.
They must be fed Immediately ON re-
turn to keep up this habit, plentifully
while only occasionally flown, but light
ly when, being trained and let out in
the morning, they are going to be let
out again in the evening, their full
meal being in this case reserved till aft
er the last fly. If of good stock and first
tossed when there are no birds to tempt
them to pitch" they soon get into the
habit Of bursting off the moment they
are liberated, and this habit must be
very carefully preserved, wedding out
instantly, as soon as discovered, any un-
usually lazy bird which, would other
wise be check upon the rest and might
lead them to descend with it. No other
system is needed beyond this i'll training
tumblers. Liverpool Courier.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31

ever Your mother went. Having lived
life of Christian consistency here, ever
busy with kindness for her children, her
heart full of that meek and quiet spirit
that is in the sight of God of great
price. suddenly her oountenance was
transigured, and the gate was opened,
and she took her place amid that great
cloud of witnesses that hover about the
throne.
Glorious consolation They are not
dead. You cannot make me believe they
are dead. They have only moved ON.
With more love than that with which
they greet us on earth, they watch rs
from their high place. and their voices
cheer us in our struggle for the sky. Hail,
spirits blessed, now that ye have passed
the flood and won the crownl With
weary feet we press up the shining way,
until in everlasting reunion we shall
meet again. Oh, won't it be grand when,
our conflicts done and our partings over,
we shall clasp hands and cry out, 'This
is heayen!"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31
Saxtons River, VT.

convent, built over part of the highest
terrace, added its rubbish to the mounds
formed already over the lower levels.
Hardly third of tho whole temple was
visible two years ago. and the rest
seemed doomed to lie forever under 40
feet of earth and stone.
The Egypt exploration fund, howev-
er, came to the rescue in the early part
of last year, and with 200 men and
Decauville tramway succeeded in clear
ing the greater part of sthe highest ter
race before the hot season began. The
finds made in the process were as re-
markable as unexpected. The buried
north end, instead of being symmetrical
with the south, as Marietta had sup
posed, upheld the general character Of
Egyptian buildings by being utterly I'M
symmetrical and abnormal. To balance
the small chambers Of offerings" on
the south there was found on the north
large hall, in the inner part of which
rose high altar dedicated to Harmachis
by the queen. The displaced stones have
been built in again now, and the great
platform of brilliant white limestone,
with its frieze Of hieroglyphics and its
graduated ascent, stands almost as COM
plete as it ever did, the only such altar
extant in all Egypt. Beside it little
Itinerary chapel runs into the rock, its
walls a marvel Of brilliant coloring.
During the present season operations
have been carried ON with a larger staff,
including two artists, to reproduce the
sculptures for publication. Two hun
bred and fifty men have been set to work
on the great mounds under which the
northern half of the central terrace was
buried, and bit by bit they are being
carried away in the Decauville cars to a
deep pit quarter of mile away. Pillar
by pillar the graceful colonnade which
ran round the north side and northwest
corner of the terrace is emerging from
the earth. Until this year not one per-
son in a hundred who visited DER ell
Bahari knew that it existed, and still
fewer suspected that it ended in one Of
the finest painted halls in Egypt soon
to be opened to light and air.
1t is always interesting to watch an
excavation in Egypt at any stage Of its
progress, for SO many treasures Of so
many kinds lie everywhere in the pre-
serving sands. Here at DER ell Bahari
the diggers, drawn from Theban vii
lagos, have been tomb robbers to man
and have lynx eyes for small antiquities.
Pecking away at the lower layers of the
mounds, they let hardly a minute pass
without picking up scarabs, amulets,
beads or bits of that wonderful blue
glazed ware which ranks among the
finest products of the ancient world.
Here fragment of potsherd, inscribed
with Coptic writing, slides down the
earth slope; there rolls a limestone chip
covered with Demotic characters These
/ are the archives and, it seems, also the
library catalogue Of the monastery built
here in the early days of Christianity.
Now and then refuse heap is reached,
and bits of papyrus, Greek. Demotic
and Coptic, are taken out in handfuls,
together with broken objects of every
sort and kind and many precious frag-
ments of sculptured walls. London
/ TimeS
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31
The Destructive Jackdaw.

In gentleman's park in the county
of Durham, says an English writer, a
number of pheasants are reared every
year. The keeper, on going to feed
them, was surprised to find the bodies
of four of the young pheasants lying on
the grass outside of the coops without
heads. He made careful search for YER
min, such as rats or weazels, but with
out effect. He left the dead pheasants
for awhile, and ON his return found a
considerable number more disposed Of
in the same way. He was quite puzzled
and resolved to seek assistance. Fully
20 young ones were disposed Of, all in
the same way. After watching con-
siderable time a pair Of jackdaws made
their appearance and were not long in
commencing their raid on the young
ones again. They quietly dragged them
out from below the hers and pulled
their heads off and carried them to a
elump of trees, where they had their
nest with young ones, and fed them with
the heads. AS soon as tine keeper was
satisfied that the jackdaws were the de-
linquents he shot them.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31
A Further Impetus.

The woman suffrage movement re-
ceived a further impetus recently in the
passage by the Iowa Legislature of bill
giving women the right to vote at munic-
ipal or school elections involving an is
sue Of bonds OF increase Of the tax levy.
This makes three large and adjacent
states in that part of the Union-Iowa,
Kansas and Colorado-in which women
can vote In municipal elections, while
in Colorado they can also vote in all
other elections This full right seems
likely to be extended them in Kansas
when the men vote on the constitution
al amendment next November. The
movement has also made more Roadway
in Massachusetts this year than ever be-
fore since the annual agitation before
the legislature began in 1867. A meas
ure giving women the right to vote in
city and town elections has been passed
by the house Of representatives recently
the first time that such bill has ever
got through one branch-but was re-
jectcd by the senate later. Tho discus
sion has shown growing Indifference
and half heartedncss on the part of for
mer opponents, remonstrances from
women having nearly ceascd.-New
Vc-l- Nation.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31
A GREAT EGYPTlAli

An Account of the Exca,:. mss Tit Is
Been Made at Der, ,..l..
Built for the worship q /, es,s, -,
like all the great fanes OH TIC IL, :,.,,..
of the Nile at Thebes, the t,.ap;t ~
DER ell Bahari has no progressive ~
tional character. Successive dJnast-ca
have not altered nor enlarged it. 1t re-
mains an expression Of single period,
the zenith of Egyptian greatness. It's
history as building is comprised in the
additions that the queen herself made
to her own plan and the mutilation Of
her names and titles by order of her
yengeful nephew. The hereto Ameno-
phis hacked out here, as everywhere,
the figures and names Of Amen Ra; here
as everywhere, the inevitable Rameses
II restored them in a style uRwokhy of
the first hand. In neglectful times the
mountain was allowed to slip and break
in roofs and fill up courts. A Coptic
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31
A Modern Jonah.

London Culver is responsible for this
unlikely story:
People of the free thinking class often
dispute the story of Jonah and the
whale not so much on account of its
improbability as because it is in the
Bible. They declare that the whale
never lived that could swallow man,
but such persons should remember thai
the word whale" as used in holy writ
referred to any large species of fish. Not
long since shark and a sailor in the
Mediterranean sea re-enacted the part Of
Jonah aud the whale to perfection. The
man fell overheard and instantly disap-
peared in the mouth of q monster shark.
The captain fired gun at the beast from
the deck, and as the shot plowed through
its back 1t cast the man out again, and
he was rescued, perfectly unnurt, but
30 badly frightened that he vas sick for
several days
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31
sAMoA AND THE PACIFIC.

ilized. life. What tight boots, with
agony Of corns; what piercing Of the ear
lobes for diamond rings; what crucifix-
ion Of stout waists to make them of
more moderate size! The tattooing is
only another form Of worship at the al
tar Of fashion-no fiinching on the part
Of the tattooed; no backing out. The
work done, he who went into the bush
a boy comes out a man.
As we passed along the main street Of
the island we had crowd after us with
something to sell. To buy flower or a
shell was greatly to REINFORCE the num-
Der of the escorting party. The men are
muscular and well formed. The chill
dren are beautiful. AS to the women,
every nation has its type Of female
beauty, and no one Of another nation is
competent to judge concerning her.
But there goes the whistle of the Ala
media. 1t has to sound three times, and
then off for New Zealand! We wait for
the second whistle and then start.
Over the rolling pillows to the ladder of
the steamer, and up to cur old place on
the good ship, to which we again trust
our lives. What mystery it must be to
all the innumerable creatures of the
dcopi We discuss some flying fish or see
once in voyage spouting whale, but
we never realize that we are being dis
cussed ~ the inhabitants of an clement
filled with so much life that our captain
says whon whale is wounded by its
captors it requires two men to keep off
the sharks while the captive is being
drawn in. What, suppose you, the in
habitan:s Of .oceania think of this ship
floating above them, of tie bow blowing
through, of The screw st; ring the wave,
of the passongc bending over the rail-
ing? Every moment as we pass on by
day and night there are thousands OF
ARCHAEOLOGICAL inquiries of What's
that?" What do the sea gulls flying
hundreds of miles from shore think OF
us? What do the sharks think of us?
What dn the whales think? What does
the octopus think? We are as great
mysteries to them as they are to us
T. DE Witt TALMAeE-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31

enough bad pOODle Three ahiDs Of war
living for the most time in the harbor
keen the natives familiar with the vices
Of more civilized nations ''Tbe beach
combers, " az they are called at Samoa
that Is. the men who combine the
work of wrecker. pirate. thief. despera-
do and agent for the slums-are found
here. Init every oitv that know of has
its beach combers. and tbe moor swindled
immigrants find them more numerous
at Boston. New York and Iiverpool
than the yoyapers ~ the Pacific find
them at Samoa. These islands are more
thorough Sabbath keepers than Won will
find in almost any land Of all tho earth.
From early morning until late at night
ON Sabbath the whole town. with few
executions. is given nm 10 devotion.
AT half mast q on Sabbath morning
the church bells ring. and the people
mt ON their best attire and assemble for
worship, Again. in midafternoon. the
church bells ring and tina neonle gather
Far ON into the Sunday night the Chris.
tan songs NAV be heard oaupht mn and
sounded back from home to home and
from mountain to beach. There is far
more Sabbath kent in Samoa than in
any town or citv in America Of the
same size. but this was not ALWAYS So
From what crueltv Christian civiliza.
ton has lifted It'll In olden times. when
they conquered an eneny. thew broke
his spine. To add 10 the humiliation of
the defeated some of them were roasted
and eaten. When a woman was candi.
date for marriage to some chief. she
was seated in the market place for the
public to decide whether she were fit
the NEGATIVE she was c,nbhed 70 doath
Thew worsb;ned the doc or tho eel
or the turtle or the lizard or the sbark
"Rackp, cried the Cbr;st;ap religion to
vucb monstrosit;es Of bebav;or-1nd all
ibinps cbanoed
The Samoans have MT mncb usa for
clothes saw no fashion nlates in tbe
windows A tailor would starve to
death in Samoa Lacl, Of comnlete
physical invostnre comes not from mn.
dine eoonomv not from pannerisn. not
from immortality. Init originally from
the fact that nm these islands the climate
ia an mild tho wear ronpd that nacossitv
does not make inexorable demand mon
weavers and clotbiers.
But gradually calicoes and nankeens
and alnacas are coming into demand
The Samoan somewhat substitutes tat.
tooinp which in soma cases annears
unite like a sn;t Of clothes Tn the boat
CROSSING from wharf IN steamer 7 mt
INV hand on the knee Of a Samoan ana
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31

Training Tumbler Pigeons.
We have known many purchases made
of birmingham rollers" and great
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31
A Vigorous Empress.

The empress of Austria, it is said, is
still able to tire out the guides at Ma
donna di Campiglio and other places in
the southern Tyrol, whore her pedes-
trian feats excite great establishment
and interest. She thinks nothing Of a
walk of 20 miles, and the rapidity Of
her pace renders it difficult for her at
tendants to keep up with her
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-31

aries. They will
do more for tho
civilization of
Samoa than all
the guns that
ever spoke from
the sides of the
worlds navies,
The captain of
our steamer, in
al interesting
address q few
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Hairpins In the Trolley.

On a Walnut Hills electric car recently
there was a rather entertaining sight The
passengers paid nothing extra to see it,
and some of them forgot to get off at their
homes, so absorbed We're they in the oc-
CuTrcnCe.
Three young ladies furnished the amuse-
mGnt.
Did you ever notice, said one, that
a hairpin will stand up on end if you put
it on the floor of an electric car just over
the motor"
ooh, it won't either!" her companions
shouted in chorused giggle.
II can prove it, " said the first.
And she did. Takinga hairpin from the
bright knot at the top of her head, she
stood it on the floor and it performed such
antics as SGT all the passengers in an up
roar.
The reader who does not believe the
story can easily demonstrate its probable
ity. Let her take hairpin and try it, OF
let him borrow one, and he will discover
a most interesting experimentation
natl Tribune.
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-12-21
Gigantic Earthworms.

The giant of the earthworms is a crca-
cure of Australia known to the scientists
us Megascolides australis Although it is
a monster, from 4 to s feet in length and
from l to ~ inches in diameter, it Is as
harmless as our common angloworm,
which it much resembles, both in color
and bodily structure. Like our common
angleworm, it can only be removed from
its burrows with great difficulty. If a por-
ton of the creatures body be uncovered
and graspcd with tho intention of pulling
it from its snuous burrow, the expert
mentcr is likely to be disappointed, be-
cause the worm can hold to tho sides of
his den until his body is pulled in two
st. Louis Republic.
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Picking ApnIes by NIachinerr.

The time during which apples should
be picked to be their best is short, and
sometimes the picking is so delayed that
the last become oycrripe. Another disad
vantage in taking in the harvest crop is
that the supply of pickers may be short,
and those that are secured may be careless
in handling the fruit, much of which is
consequently bruised and rendered unfit
for grading Many contriyances have been
devised for facilitating and Chcapening
this work, but none has come into univcr-
sal use. \ catcher is made in two parts
of canvas or any other strong, durable fab
ric, such as sailcloth. The lower part, or
main canvas is 40 feet across, in the form
of an immense saucer, the center about
the tree coming down to the ground.
Above this is the hood, about - feet
square and highest in the center When
this is adjusted about the tree, the branches
are shaken, and the apples find their way
down to the ground in pile at tho base
of the tree. 1t is claimed that fruit can
thus be gathered in One-half the time, at
onc-half tbs expense of hand picking and
with a marked improvement in condition.
The apple catcher is especially service
able when gathering fruit from lofty trees.
1t may be used for stack covering when
not required for fruit gathering. 1t is also
made in smaller sizes for gathering pears,
plums, nuts, ctc.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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my enorts to get good hOlG or The spout
until a new horror forced itself upon my
mind. l had come to the end of the spout
and was still 90 feet from the bottoml
There l hung, gTasping the treachcrOus
spout with my hands, unable to return,
helpless to go forward, without any sup
port for my feet, and with my strength
gradually cbbing away. How long ] re-
manned there l know not. The seconds
seemed minutes; the minutes seemed
hours. A length felt that death was so
inevitable as the climax of my adventure
that it was only a question of minutes
when the end should come, for though !
cried out fecbly no one heard my voice,
while beneath me were those hard, mar
row stone steps with the flimsy cask upon
its frail supports, Whichever I fell upon
it meant instant death.
But, after all, l was not destined to die
then. Suddenly, when the muscles Of my
hands were relaxing their hold, | heard
noise beneath me / Craned over my neck
and looked down. There was a man with
a bucket. He threw out some rubbish and
re-entercd the door. He had already dis.
appeared when my cry arrested his atten-
ton. He reappearcd and looked round and
was about to depart again when another
shout caused him to look up. l shall never
forget his expression of establishment and
the exclamation he uttered on seeing me
hanging there at the end of that lettering
spout. The bucket dropped from his
hand and he stood like one tTansiiXcd
However, my cry, Catch me, am fall.
ing" brought him to his senses. In an
instant he had tossed away the cask, taken
good foothold on the steps and hidden
me drop He caught me eXpertly and l
was thus saved from as narrow squeak
for my life as l ever experienced.
A few words sufIlced to Explain what
had happened. He looked surprised,
scratched his head, said he could not i'm
agine how l had got to that part Of the
building; that the conference had been
over long ago, finally adding:
by all the saints in hivin, if I hadn't
come out the minute did, you'd have bin
a dead crature by now You only escaped
by the skin of your teothr'-Alired j
Story in Million.
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The Little Darling.

Harold accompanies his mother on an
afternoon call upon the elderly lady who
has Just moved in next door.
Mrs. Newcomer-And this is little Har-
old? Well, my little man, hope that we
shall be friends.
Harold Gmperatively)-Iwan to see 90
little chickens.
Mrs. Newcomer-Why, 1 haven't any
little chickens.
Harold-Where's 90 fezzers?
Mrs. Newcomer-Why, what does tho
child mean? haven't any feathers.
Harold-Den papa storied, cause no
said it was a ole hen dat had moved in dis
house.-Chicago Post.