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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.

Here's something from the Farmers
Advocate that is down right blasphe-
my, or some other phemy, and ought
to bring down upon the Advocate the
entire cuckoo press of the State
That anybody should dare to criticize
Governor Fuller's Arbor Day procla-
nation is astounding. And at the
same time, too, that the Vermont
Waterman said:
His excellency recommended the OBJ
servance of the day in proclamation
that is particularly forceful and happy in
diction, while its suggestions of the vari-
ed benefits the state may derive from the
g of tree culture are
.. isdom.
,HT 81. t the Advocate says;
'g o the invention of the
gf,.. E of Agriculture,
Sterling Morton, and was instituted to
encourage the planting of trees in the
then treeless section of country in the
prairie belt, and was great blessing to
that part OF the Union; but in the dense
ly timbered regions, the idea of setting
out trees on the land which the pioneer
settler had worked so hard to clear and
reclaim from its oroginal forest condition
in order that he might have few acres
to till for his crops, seems supremely alb
surd. There are whole sections of land
along the lines of some of our railroads
in this state where the thickly standing
stumps tell of the lately denuded forests,
and the idea of restoring those lands to
their former valueless condition, for
mere sentiments sake would be like ask
ing a farmer to put back the weeds, the
kale and the daisies, after he had spent
many weary back-aching hour in eradi-
eating them. There is no danger of there
ever being forest famine in this sec.
ton of the country. Trees spring up
here with marvellous celebrity, and often
cumber the ground with second growth
which has to be cut down again to make
room for more valuable vegetation.
The fact is that Arbor Day, like Fast
Day, might just as well be RELOCATED to
the shadowy purlieus of that "innocuous
desuetude" of which the president is
wont to speak.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04
Liberation Notice !!

Notice is hereby given that have this
day given my sor, FAM H. Pierce, his
time during the remainder of his minori-
tv, and that after this date | 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??, 1894-05-04

There is no excuse for any man to APP
pear in society with a grizzly beard since
the introduction of Buckingham's Dye,
which colors natural brown OF black.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04

"When Samkins makes speech, he
always goes into his subject In a most
exhaustive manner"
Eyes, and he treats his audience in
the same way. American Industries,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04

Buyers look this over
and decide whether you
can or cannot afford to
pay credit prices.
Our only terms are Cash
Mems heavy Jersey Over
shirts, 3Sc worth SOC
Mems Jersey Overshilts
at 5Sc worth 75c.
Gents Gary mix Under
shirts, heavy, 25c.
Ladies fast black feeced-
lined Hoes, 10c.
Mems Scarlet, all-wool
Shirts and Drawers, 62 LIE.
Atwood black Henrietta,
42c.
Ladies' best white Merino
Vests and Pants, 25c.
Mems red wool Mittens, BE
Atwood tricot dress Elan
els, Zoe.
3O-inch printed Chevrons,
&c a yard, worth IL IL.
Mems Rubber Boots $500.
Mems heavy wool Pants $l.5O
Mems red Pontiac Socks zoe
American 36-inch Cashmere
zoe.
Ladies Jackets as low as Sl.5O
actually worth $500.
We have them in finer quail
ties cheaper than yOu would
think possible.
Tubular Lanterns, zoe, Tumblers, good
ones, &c, II qt, Dish Pans. 13c, Tin
Wash Bowls, s., so #. Cotton Lines,
Sc, 2 qt stamped Pans, Sc, Dinner
Pals, Ii, | gal. Glass Oil Cans,
25c, at. Coffee Pots. 10, Nut
meg 1raters, lc, Soup La
dies, Sc, Me- dies, lc paper,
Pins, lc paper, Safety
Pms, lc doz. Shelf
Papers, doz for
&c, Wood Eau
Gets. 81,
White Envelopes, &c bunch. Note
PAGER, II ream for Zoe, Turkey
Red IIaudke' chiefs, 2e, En-
bioiJeic ed Slk Handker-
chiefs, 10, Hemp Car
Icts. ~ lie,
Window
Shades, &c and 25c complete
And Plenty More Bargains.
AT
BIacknncr's
New York Store,
Manchester Dpoet.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04

'It pains NE very much to spank you,
Johnny" said his mother, with deep feel
ing, land / shall have to turn you over
10 your father. His hands are harder"
Chicago Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04

The Springfield Union thinks that
Tom Reed may go into history as the
father-in-law of his country.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04
An Hour With Exchanges.

What revival of business there
would be if the Democratic Congress
were to reverse itself on the tariff
question, as it has done on quorum
counting, abandon the Wilson bill
and adjourn IN. Y. Tribune.
The only industry that has steadily
prospered under the constant menace
of Democratic tariff tinkering is that
of the tramp. The Coxey disorder
shows that under the present Admin
istration tramping has developed in
to an organized institution Y.
Press.
Coxey is ceasing to be joke. 1t
will be fortunate if he doesn't soon
become something worse than SIM
pie nuisance. Y. Tribune.
Vermont republicans should plan
for vigorous campaign this year in
order to have as large part as pos
sible in the "radical change" which
the country is rapidly preparing for.
-Caledonian.
And For Revenue Only.
1t must be rather difficult matter
for our democratic friends 70 know or
tell just where they are at. Today
democrat is hardly distinct enough.
There are Jeffersonian democrats,
Jacksonian democrats, Hill democrats,
Cleveland democrats, sound money
democrats, fat money democrats,
protection democrats, free trade dem
ocrats, and-well other democrats.
You pay your money and you take
your choice. North Troy Palladium.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04

Bank Safes, Tank Vaults, Cnpk Nauit
Doors, Deposit Work of all lSi's,'s.
The Best SAFE ia he Torsd. 10000 IN use.
Afscays preserre :he'r contents,
Cbampion Record in ali the Great Fires.
One of the largest and best equipped factories
In the country has just bcen erected near Boston,
fitted with tile latest and most improved TOOLS
which render facilities FOR manufacturing the
best work at tic lowest prices, unequaied by any
other concern in the coEn ~.
Our aim is to give the best construction and
most improvements for ,he least amount of mon
ey.
Estimatcs and specifications furnished upon
Application. A"ENTs "A
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04

Now, when these things we're
known, all the chief Republicans
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-04
CASH

Buyers look this over
and decide whether YOU
can or cannot afford to
pay credit prices.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

'Oh," interrupted Dan, hastily, q
think I'm getting over it! Don't
worry about me, mother, l was just
out O. sorts, and didn't know what ]
wanted-that's ALL"
And as he hastily left the room,
Maria laughed.
81 guess, mother, Dams all right
now. He's discovered what it was he
wanted, and I think he's found it.
"Why, whatever do you mean,
child?"
II mean that he has found all he
wanted in Dora. Why, can't you see
it yourself, mother? Depend upon it,,
Dan will never be discontinued any
more or wanting to go away from
home. Why, just look at them in the
garden there-how happy thoy both
are !"
And as the mother carefully adjusted
her spectacles and viewed the unsus-
pecting lovers, a mist dimmed the
glasses, and she murmured:
"God bless 'em !"-Saturday Night,
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

The meagre and Improbable results
Of the sturgeon fishery in the Colum.
bia River this season shows that the
sturgeon a well as the salmon is fast
being exterminated IN those waters
because of wasteful and entirely i'm.
proper methods of fishing. A few
years ago it was believed the Columbia
River could easily supply the entire
East as well as the Pacific markets with
sturgeon, but this year the catch has
not been a tenth go largeas in former
years, to the great loss of fishermen
and packers. But on the Frazer River,
in British Columbia, where adequate
laws for the proper protection of the
fish exist and are strictly enforced,
the catch this year has been better
than ever before. One big packer has
removed his business this year from
Washington to British Columbia.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

A discovery, the value of which to
the medical world cannot be estimat>
ed, has just been made known by q
Ney York physician, announces the
Chicago Herald. It is an antidote for
morphine poisoning, and, Judging by
the result of an experiment conducted
before q number of New York doctors,
it is complete. The discoverer made
the experiment on himself, much,
however, against the protests of his
fellow physicians, who were less san
guine of its powers. Convinced of the
value of his discovery, DR.. Moor, the
discoverer, swallowed three grains of
morphine, a sufficient quantity to kill
the most robust adult, following it
with his antidote. The usual effects
Of morphine poisoning, languor, sleep,
death, did not appear. Instead DR..
Moor was the most cheerful and en-
thusiastic participant in the discussion
which followed his attemptt to commit
suicide" The antidote is tho perman-
ganate Of potassium.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

Z A Washington letter says: Surpris-
ing news has reached the bureau OF
ethnology respecting the recent olsen
tombment of the conqueror, Pizarro,
in Peru. 1t seems that the corpse ex-
hibits certain abnormalities which are
extremely interesting from the point
of view of anthropologists. The skull
reveals all the marks of the criminal
type, as recognized by science to-day.
As shown by it the military hero, SO
~worshiped and revered even now in
South America, was q murderous and
bloodthirsty brute. The Uranium ha:
even the so-called 'tfossa of LON
broso,", which modern criminologist
nave new discovered except in o
frmedand habitual enemies of society.
The skull is abnormally broad. An
other anatomical popularity is the in
step, which is extraordinarily high.
The latter was a.feature of his CON
quering race. 1t recalls the warrior
indefatigable on the march, whether
on the desert tracts of the coast, or in
the wilds of the Peruvian Cordilleras.
As to his age, reliable evidence is t.
the effect that Pizarro was a little
more than seventy years old when he
died.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28
IN

The pennon at his PROV to float
No breeze along the islet sweeps
But rounl AMI round the swaying boat
The INDECENT, slow eddy creeps.
II yester eve or yester-year
He drifted on this idle strand
Who knows2 Time has no measure here
In Shadow-Lani.
For one perpetual season flowers,
And knows no change Of sun or moon
To mark the never-varying hours
From dawn to dusk, from night to noon
Nor song of bird, nor breath of rose.
But still and faro either hand,
The lily blows. the water flows,
In Shadow-Land.
That soft, unceasing ripple rocks
The keel that with it seems to glide,
And to his dreaming fancy mocks
The motion of an onward tide. /"
Dim shapes his half-shut eyelids fill,
He hears the wav wash on the sand
Nor guesses that he fingers still
In Shadow-Land.
Awake, o dallier with O dream
That only in thy fancy dwells?
Push out into the open stream
Beyond these poisoned ~honey-bells!
Let the strong wind asunder rift
The drowsy fragrance round thee famed,
Or perish of its deadly drift
In Shadow-Land!
Kate Putnam Osgood, in Independent.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

A recent monograph on the subject
OF Geographical Concentration in
American Agriculture" written by
John Hyde, and read before the Inter
national Statistical Institute. gives
some curious facts about the cultiva-
tlon Of hops in this country. In 1910
the total production Of hops in the
United States was 1888, 500 pounds,
86. IL per cent. of which was produced
in New York, and 40.2 % per cent. in
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
Forty years later the production had
increased TO &c, SAG, 378 pounds, New
York contributing 81.4 5 per cent. OF
the total. In 1890 the hop production
Of the country was almost revolution
lied. New York still contained 1903
per cent. of the total acreage devoted
TO hops, but her yield was only 47.16
per cent. Of the total production. The
explanation Of this phenomenal change
i the remarkable productiveness of
the hop lands Of the Pacific Coast
States, the yield per acre, according
TO Mr.. Hyde, being nearly three times
as great as that Of the hop lands of the
State Of New York. The next ten
years will produce a still greater
change. The census Of 1000 will prob
ably show the Pacific Coast reducing
the major part Of the hops consumed
ii the United States. II they do the
production must be enormous, for no
industry n this country j. growing
more rapidly than the brewing Of beer,
ior which = supply 81 good hops ! y
aisPsneshle4
I&4E MAHE AAA AEtN no
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28
SELECT SIFTINGS.

The word Arizona means etymolog1
cally, "big nose"
A duke during the middle ages wai
an independent sovereign.
The oldest New England Church, il
point of use as a religious ediice, is al
bingham, Mass.
The list of English authors and
their works give the titles of over 800
poems and essays on Solitude"
Italian soldiers are given cigars
every day, but have to pay for their
underclothing, washing and all toilet
articles.
New York has the biggest gas tank
in the world. 1t towers high above
the buildings in West Sixty-fifth street,
and holds 1000, 900 feet.
A woman in Portland, Me-, de
posted $500 in a savings bank in 1864
and has seen the amount grow tc
$126S by the accumulation of interest.
Byron wrote his first poem of conse
quence when he was eighteen. and at
twenty-eight published the poem Of
''Childe Harold" on which his fame
chiefly rests.
"a Schoolmaster' wishes to ex
change his little daughter. aged
eleven, for a boy of similar age," was
an odd advertisement in the Kentish
Mercury, England, recently.
A. 3. Myers, of Hanover, Penn,
lost both his hands in an accident
years ago. He was recently married,
and signed his marriage certificate
with a pen held in his teeth. His
penmanship is fine.
The register of a country hotel in
Maine one day recently contained
names Of Mongolians, Russians, Prus-
SLAMS, Italians, Turks, Greeks, Can
adian, French and Germans, each
written in the owners language.
A lake of boiling mud, two miles in
circumference, exists in the island of
Java, near Solo. Masses of soft, hot
mud continually arise and fall, and
huge mud bubbles explode like bal
looms, with reports like guns, at the
rate of three a minute.
Baron Halter, a German poet, when
a young man, risked his life to save
his manuscript poems from a burning
building. He laid them away, and a
few years later, sitting down to read
hem over, was SO disguised with them
that he threw them all into the fire.
A Japanese audience, when they
wish to express disapproval of a bad
play, do not hiss or boot or make any
hideous and inconvenient noise; they
merely rise to their feet and turn
their backs to the stage, upon which
the curtain Immediately %descends, and
the play is forthwith tabooed.
A cat, imported from Madagascar, is
in the possession of W. G. Robinson.
of New Castle, Penn. The animal has
no tail and runs like a rabbit. The
cat is a great rabbit hunter, and can
follow Mr.. Bunny into almost any
burrow. Mr.. Robinson claims that it
caught nineteen rabbits one day re-
Gently.
Ancient critics said Homer was a
p~lagiarist. Naucrats charged that
Homer stole all his work from a pre-
ceding poem; Aelian mentions n
Syagrus who preceded Homer and
wrote a poem on the siege of Troy,
and Suidas says Homer got his best
passages from a poem by Corrinnus on
the same subject.
The California Indians bow is made
from the white sap Of wood of the
cedar, the outside of the tree being
the outer side of the bow. The stick
is scraped and polished with pieces of
obsidian. Then it is roasted IN ashes
and bent into shape. Their arrows
are made of button willow, twigs Of
the buckeye and canes.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28
WISE WORDS.

Forgetting is forgiving.
A light heart lives long.
Marriage is loves sacrifice.
Don't try to pump out the sea.
A good deed needs no applause.
A kiss is a song without words.
Covetousness boards itself poor.
Sunshine is the leaven of living.
Love teaches us the pleasure of pain.
All true love is grounded on esteem.
Friendship depends largely on funds.
Speech is a deformity in some peo-
pie.
A woman's smile Gan make a burden
light.
Love is contagious, epidemic and
incurable.
What the rosebud promises it does
not fulfill.
You canaot play false, and yet
rightly win.
Help the deserving, not all those
who appeal.
It is wonderful how near conceit is
to insanity.
Suspicion paves the road to misun-
derstanding.
It is not the longest life that has
the most in it.
People are SO much alike they should
be better friends.
When two ride the same horse, one
must ride behind.
Love and necessity are the only
cures for l~aziness.
1t is seldom that u woman thinks SO
without saying SO.
We rarely find as much in a dollar
as we think there is.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

Fired by the example of DR.. THY
rier, who sits in the French Chamber
n a blouse, another Socialist, a pig
merchant named Deloge, offers himself
for election with the understanding
that, if successful, he will attend the
sessions in blouse and sabots to boot.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28
Pension!

H-Acr OF JUNE 81. 1890 Pensions soldiers and sailors of the war of Ii
rebellion who served 80 days AMI we're honorably discharged from the service and
who are incapaciaed for performance of manual labor, and for the widows chill.
drn, dependent parents fathers and mothers. ALI pensions under this Act will
commences from the date of fling the formal application, ater the passage Of tho
AD in the pension Bureau. No application or pension under this act will be
good unless fled in the Pension Bureau o. OF after June q, 1890, Cdate of the
Act F9 d o. ta des tn f. ths form OF n sssst'a ST.; Il. p, wise@' s. y ,n sds 50 sss sGs;Esn., The he, r sss
child of soldier under sixteen years; aud if the widow dies, the child or children
car draw such pension. The soldier is entitled to any rate from Sc to sls per
may apply under this one, or a pensoner under this ne may apply under other
laws, but can draw only ne pension at the same time. This law requires Il a sell
~ An honorable discharge.
az That he served at least ninety days.
C0 A permanent physical or mental inability to earn a support. but not due
vicious habits: ct need not have oiginsted in the service)
G) That he wash onorably discharged.
Naval service. -
0lsrhat the widow is "wiheut other means of support than her daily
DEPENDENT PARENTS CASE.
~ That the soldier o sailor died Of wound, injury " disease, which, I'm.
der prior law, would have given him a pension.
Co That he lett no wife o minor child.
(2) Ihat the mother or father Is at present dependent O her Or his ow
uA i,oor, OF tn contributions Of others not legally bound for their support
The benefits II ne hrsts section Of the Act of June 81, 1890, are not confined to
all par, nts where penionable dependence has arisen IN account of the death Of a
SOL who served, since said war in behalf of The United States, as we'll az for dis
abhtls contracted before orr since DISCHARGED. s
a. That n csea q minor child is insane, idiohc or otherwise permanently
helpless the pension shall continue during the period of such disability, and this
undert this Or any former statute. aud such pensions shall commence from fe ds
OF application therefor after passage Of this Act.
The rules and regulations of the Department will povern all anulcants and
AZ Under Act Of June 81, 1890 pensions are granted to Soldiers and ssar.
H-NOTICE-Dr W. r. Lastrapes having recently beer appointed o. g
Exa'a NM surgo Ter Pensions at Opslousas, La, it is now of special intsr@tho
III con- now be examined without having to sustain the expanses # aopg to
Ne Orleans Tor medical examination, at which place they have heretofore beer
4 Teeted to 60.
HART n. SAND0z,
:. U: PENSION CLAIM AGENT
~ oSf4Qf YA Bon Join ~ Ogden, o1s3eusa' lousana.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28
DAMS Discomfort,
BY S. A. WEISS,

don't know what's
come over DAM"
said Mrs. Dawson,
rs she placed the
steaming coffee
pot on the Sunday
breakfast a b | q.
'He was always
the brightest and
best tempered Of
my children, and
now he's that
d~ownhearted and
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

When the ostrich is to be Invested
Of it's plumage q long hood is placed
on ita head. and it is then confined in
. ra:leI Enclosure about three feet
square, The birds rarely show fight.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

An advocate of electrical cooking
claims that of every 100 tons of coal
used in a cooking stove ninety-six tons
20 to waste.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28
New Shaving Saloon.

HAVING recently built and r%efurnished
Il throughout, my Barber Shop, | am
now prepared, with increased facilities,
toserve the public in First-Class Style
nv new quarters between Brand and
sriarity's. Shaving, Hair Cutting,
shampeoing, etc. done in the highest
style of the art. Give me a cali
E. A. BODEMULLER.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

Almost fve-eighths of the steamers
in the world are under the British
Sfso
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28

The name Ptolemy was adopted as a
title BY the later kings Of Egypt.
The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28
HART H. SANDQz,

U. s. PENSION CLAIM AGENT,
"a OSf1QH viM Bon. Join NJ Ogden, 0Nsousa., LodSana.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-08-28
LOCAL NOTES.
People Coming and Going-Notes of In
terest Easily Read.

People Coming and Going-Notes Of In
terest Easily Read.
Mr Dolph Yearly spent last night at
Chapel Hill.
Mr. George McGhee, of Raleigh, spent
last night in the city.
Mr. William Lipscomb left yesterday
on the west tound train.
Mrs. J. K. Day left yesterday afternoon
for short visit to Hillsboro.
Julian Carr came down from the farm
today on a visit to Martie Watts
Mrs w II. Stone left this morning on
the cannon ball for a visit to Mt. Airy
John WILDER Jenkins left this morning
for trip to the western part Of the state.
Mr. Adison Mangum passed through
the ci y today on his way to RicOmond.
Mrs W. T. Gardner, of Goldsboro,
who has been spending some days in the
city returned home this noon
Miss Lizzie Harris returned down the
country today to resume charge Of her
school Of music
Miss Elva Blair, of High Point, stop
ped over here today with her aunt, Mrs
) f TOmliDson She is enrOute to OK
ford
NJ: and Mrs James Nortleet, who have
been spending several days in the city,
! lift yesterday afternoon for their home
| in Winston
Elder J. T. Rowe, of Beaufort, and
Elder }. T. Edgerton, Pikesville, returned
10 tn. ir respcc i've homes at noon today
They have been preaching at the Prima
tive Baptist church at this place
.Jrhn n. W. Latta was before L S
Commissioner N. A. Ramsey this after
noon charged with selling whiskey with
out license, he was bound over to the
| | : court in the sum Of $500 90
Firt alarm box No 1G has been changed
from the corner of RCxboro and Liberty
streets, down on Cleveland street in front
Of @. T. Carver's. Keys will be found al
the dwellings of O. T. Carver, Col w A
Albright, d. w. Whitaker and r T
Howcrton. Box No % has been put in
place of No 1G