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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-04-10
Violin, Banjo aud Guitar.

= j. B. Simouds will instruct a limited
number OF pupils on the above named in
struments. Music composed and trans
criptions made at reasonable rates.
p, o. Address,
So. Londonderry, VT.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-04-10
IvoRYSoAP
IT FLOATS

grocery of Ivory sod one that costs
five cents cake larger The larger cake the
yenen laundry general household your
Grocer is out of insist his getting it for
.IPao1Ea & &GA.nlHC &C., CNn
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-04-10
MARRIED..

In Grafton, April 4, by Rev. G. V.
French, Jay Eddy and Florence Colburn
both of Grafton.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-04-10

@~For Sale,-l3 young cows, coming
in in April.
H. B. SHAW,
Landerove, VT.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-04-10
Business:

Business notices Inserted under this head for
one cent word. Nothing inserted for less than
25 cents.
IL you have anything to sell or wish to buy
anything here Is a chance to make your wants 5
widely known at trnug cost.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-04-10

!!!Bargains!!!
J. II. Couture's Store.
Germantown yarn, all shades, lOc a
skeln.
Remnant Dress Fannelsl worth 25 aud
S5c all at IL l-2c yard.
White Outing Flannels, &c yard.
One lot Mems Underwear, worth soc
to close at '5c.
Heavy Pontiac Mittens, 3Oc pair.
Medium weights " 25c a I"
Light weight " l9c "
Children's Wool Hose, heavy, 1g 1-2c
apair
Packages Washing Powder for 25c
Bars Laundry Soap, for 25c.
Mocha and Java Broken Coffee CSC.
i" Screenings Coffee,
25c.
Japan Tea worth 35c, for 25c pound
Few Horse Blankets worth $l.75 each
for $l.00.
Mems Heavy Socks for Csc pair.
Vestcoats worth $3 90 each for $500
to close out.
Uncolored fine japan Tea for 10 "a lib.
Best grades of flour at the low water
IT. ark.
Give us your trade and we will
save you money, -
Terms Cash Down.
Manchester Depot Feb. 10, 1896.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-04-10

So. Londonderry. vt,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-04-10

North Wjndham, VT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
cnba,s p,scouraring E.p.rimen,.

Cuba is furnishing nearby example
of the beauties of government regula-
ton of the value of money on the Bryan
plan. Capt. Gen. Weyler had a deficient
supply of cash, and so be had the Banco
Espanol put out a lot of paper money
and issued stringent edict that every
body should take it at par with gold.
As the island is practically under mar
tial law, there was government con-
troll of the currency at its best. If you
didn't take the bank bills at par, you
were liable 10 be shot. Even Bryan
couldn't do more for silver than that.
But did the edict keep the bank notes
at par? Not for a day. Almost instant
ly they were at a discount, which soon
amounted to 20 per cent Even with
guns and bayonets You cannot make
50 cents equal dollar. Weyler has had
to give up trying. He has finally al
lowed the Havana stock exchange 10
quote the value of the bank bills in gold.
We were going to say that this proves
the powerlessness of law to establish
the value of money, but we remem-
Der in time that Cuba has less than D.
600. 900 population to our 70,000,000:
that she never put down the greatest
rebellion of modern times; but her
inhabitants are not the richest, proud
est, most intelligent people on earth,
and so we are not so sure. Her case is
only a part of universal experience,
but we have changed all that.-N. Y.
Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22

Any candid man who considers these
figures will easily see that demonetiza-
ton has not forced down prices. All of
the products, including wheat, were
higher in the five years, 1S7S-S2, than in
the preceding years when the alleged
characterization commenced. Then the
immense developments of wheat ter
ritory, both in this country and other
parts of the world, brought wheat down
and other products with it. Following
that, the prosperity in this country
permitting an immense home consump-
,tion enabled all these products to rise
again, and all except wheat to rise TO
more than the average for 1887. This
testimony, too, can be repeated with re-
gard to other great agricultural staples.
Pork was higher in 1893 than in 1873.
On the farms, horses, swine, sheep and
mules were worth as much in 1890 and
1891 as in 1923, while cattle were
worth a little less. But in all these
20 years of the standard which Mr..
Bryan is denouncing all over the coun-
try the crushing decline in agricultural
prices had not taken place. Even the
value of the yield of wheat per acre in
2 the United States was as great in 1891
as In 1873, and greater than in 1874 and
1873.
This was the case up to the close of
1892, under 20 years of the policy which
the democratic candidate is attacking.
But then something happened To
show how what happened then affected
the farmers, we compare the prices
given in the last column of the above
table with those given by the United
States statistical abstract, for 1905:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
Fighting Their Shadows.

The sixteen to one agitators who are
urging the people TO fight an imaginary
money power are merely warning
against their own shadows. The only
money power" in this country is q
creature of the silverite's Imagination
which is to be found nowhere because
It has no real existence. Like the man
whose fears of ghosts and hobgoblins
lead him to see in his dow cast by
the moon frightful monster ready TO
devour him, the cheap money advocates
see in the effects of their attack on our
financial system the work of an evil
demon which is destroying business
and impoyerishing the people. 1t is
rot ereditable to the common sense CT
the American voters that the ghost
stories Of deluded believers in free sill
yer should be listened to, much less 50
that any considerable number Of people
should be scared by phantoms into ac-
eepting a gospel one-half humbug and
one half reputation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
want the Rest Tools.

The farmer and the mechanic must
be free to use the very best tools and
implements, and the merchant and
banker must be free to use the very
best money and instruments Of credit.
An honest and stable measure of value
is just as necessary to both as are honest
and stable measures of weights and
quantities. and it requires no argument
10 show that without these it would be
to transact the ordinary
business Of the country.-Hon. John
G. Carlisle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22

DO the famers know what hit them
in 1902? The same policy of meddling
with business, advocated by the same
man who Is now stumping the country.
with the same abundant promises of
unalloyed prosperity if they would vote
him and bis party into power. The peo-
pie, or share of them, were deluded
by these promises. The result is shown
above, and the way it worked is also
statistically shown. The ability of the
industrial and mercantile population
of the country to consume farm prod
ucts was reduced As per cent. on wheat,
about AZ on cotton, over 40 on corn, 80
on wool and other products in proper
ton. When their chief and sure market
was SO much restricted. is it any wonder
that the farmers products dropped
more in three years of democratic rule
than in 20 years of ''sound money and
protection?
The question for the tanners to decide
is whether they will continue the regime
thathas inflicted this injury on them, or
whether they will restore the condi-
tons prior to 1892, when the industries
of the country were able to buy farm
products and pay living prices for them.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
TESTIMONY OF FIGURES.
Effect OF the Monetary Standard
on the Farmers.
Any Candid Man Who Considers the
Facts VIII Easily See That Demon
etIzation Has Not Forced
Down Prices.

A very striking illustration of the
truth with regard to the monetary
standard and its effect on farmers is
afforded by a table prepared by Mr.. L.
B. Swift, of Indianapolis, giving the
average prices of farm crops by FIVE
year periods, from 1878 to 1892 inclusive.
The Dispatch has made similar COM
PARSONS for other periods. But this
exhibits the actual course of prices so
clearly that it is we'll worth while to
repeat it. The prices are gold values
and are what the farmers of Indiana
received for their products, not those
paid in the central markets:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
Confiscation OF Propertr.

A farmer who had his crop Of wheat
stored in the granary or manufactures
who had his warehouse iilled with the
products of his factory would think it
an outrage if the government should
wheat or his goods. What better is it
by the adoption of free silver coinage to
confiscate one-half of the wage Of the
laborer or one-half Of his accumulated
savings, or one-half of the dover of the
widow. or one-half of the pension of the
soldier Philadelphia Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
An Unworthy Citizen.

Silverite Orator-What we want IS
more money.
Skeptic-Would free coinage give US
more money?
S. O.-Certainly. 1t would give US
both gold and silver.
S.-But wouldn't free coinage at six
teen to one drive gold out of circula.
ton, in accordance with the Gresham
law?
S. O.-My friend, Mr.. Bryan pro-
poses to repeal any law that is work
ing in the interest of the goldbugs and
shylocks.
S.-But the Gresham law is a nat
ural law, like the law of gravitation.
S. O.-My friend. you are pessimist
and don't know that you are a citizen
of the grandest country ON earth-one
that can without the aid or consent of
any other nation" repeal even the law
of gravitation itself if it should become
a tool of Wall street. Shame on you'll
You don't belong to this country. As I
was saying
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
lNeERsoLL ON MONEY.
The Colonel States Some Plain Truths In
His Own Unique Way.

fhe Colonel States Some Plain Truths In
His own Unique Way.
Following is an extract from tho
speech of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll at
Chicago ON October s:
Money that is money needs no guar
antee, needs no hacker; it is always
good. No matter how many nations go
down to dust, rood money remains for
ever the same. We have man running
for the presidency on three platforms,
with two vice presidents, that says
money is a creature of law. If the
government can make money by law,
why should the government collect
taxes? According to Mr.. Bryan, our
fathers we've the friends of silver, and
vet our dear old fathers in all their
lives minted only 5000, 900 of these sa-
cred dollars. Now, see what the enc
mics of silver have done. Since 1873
the enemies of silver have coined over
430,000,000 of these dollars, and yet
silver kept going down. We are coin
ing now over $2,0O0,O0O a month, and
silver keeps going down.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, in 1873,
voted for the law OF 1873. He said.
from his speech in the senate, that God
had made gold the standard. He said
that gold was the mother of civiliza-
ton. Whether he has heard from God
since or not do not know. But now he
is ON the other side. Senator Stewart, of
Nevada, was there at the time, but voted
for the act of 1873, and said that gold
was the only standard. He has changed
his mind. No government cam afford to
be a clipper on coins.
A great republic cannot afford to
stamp d lie on silver or gold or paper.
Honest money fer an honest people, is
sued by AN honest nation. You cannot
make paper dollar without taking
dollars worth of paper. We must have
paper that represents money. want it
issued by the government, and 1 want
behind every one of these paper dollars
either dollar in gold or a silver
dollar worth 100 cents, so that every
greenbacl under the flag can lift up its
hands and swear: II know that my re-
deemer liveth." That was where was
20 years ago. and that is where am to
night.
For nations and individuals, at all
times. everywhere end forever, honesty
is the best policy, Better be an honest
bankrupt than a rich thief. Poverty can
hold in it's hand the jewel honnr--a
jewel that outsbines all other gems. A
Thousand times better be poor and noble
than rich and fraudulent. Nobody can
be helped by free coinage except the few
people who could pay their debts If they
were willing. Some say that it would
help the mine owners. It would not
Coming this bullion into dollars would
not increase its value, because you could
coin the bullion of the whole world and
the supply would be greater than the
demand. Have free coinage to morrow,
md there is not q silver mine owner
that would make a dollar-not one-by
changing it into American coin. IT
would be worth only what the bullion
is worth in the open market.
We went good money-good, honest
money. And there was never any real
prosperity for nation or an individual
without honesty, without integrity, and
it is our duty to preserve the reputa tien
of the great republic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22

with the election Of Mckinley the re-
turn Of presperity1win be a certainty.
end that is the reason why all business
men are for him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
How BRYAN win .eDo" the trusts.

Mr.. Bryan to the Trusts You fellows
are not in it with me. You think you're
doing great things when you put up
the price of one thing at time-and
you get cussed for it besides. But my
little silver trust scheme puts up prices
on everything at once, and make 'eni
think we're doing 'em favor. You fel.
lows are too slow.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
Goldhurs IL the wheel.

Goldbugs must have got into the
wheat fields, judging from the way ia
which wheat persists in going up whifss
the price of silver is falling. The Brr-
antics must find some other standar :
Of comparison than their favorite BUSH
FL of wheat, and they have not mue4
time left in this campaign. = BostcA
Transcript.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22
ACTION OF wooLoRowERs.
Demand the Return of the Mckinley
Protective Rates.

Protective Rates.
The Ohio woolgrowers, in their an
nual convention, demand the return of
the protective rates that obtained I'M
der the Mckinley law, and ask the
fiockmasters of the state TO only sup
port candidates for congress who will
pledge themselves, if elected, to vote
for a revival of protective tariff on
wool.
Under the free wool, Wilson-Gorman
law now in force, the occupation of the
woolgrowers in Ohio and elsewhere has
almost entirely disappeared, causing
untold pecuniary damage to thousands
of farmers. Under the Mckinley law
they fourished and prospered. Under
the present enactment they have stead
lily declined, until the raising of sheep
for wool has almost ceased.
Tho woolgrowers fully understand
that William Jennings Bryan, when
member of congress, voted for the Cor
man law. He favored free wool and did
all he could TO- secure its enactment.
Z But he is carefully avoiding any refer
#ence to it in his public speeches. He
hasn't word of defense for the vote
that helped fasten the incubus OF free
wool upon the farmers of the country.
On the contrary he lodges the issue
and pirates of free silver as the panacea
for all the woes experienced by the
agricultural classes. He would have
hem favor a debased currency, and
40 the same time be compelled to sell
their wool product in competition with
Australia and other wool growing coun-
tries, where land costs virtually moth
ing and pasturage is had almost for
the asking.
The wool producers are not to be
folled by his specious pleas. The farm
ers were tricked two years ago by free
trade. They do not propose to be
caught by free silver chaff this time
Columbus (O.) State Journal
With the election Of Mckinley the re-
turn Of presperity6win be a certainty.
end that is the reason why all business
men are for him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-22

There has been no time since the
resumption Of specie payments in 1s72
when the depositors in savings banks
could not get back as good money as
they earned and put in. Do they want
even 10 chance it" on getting s1-cent
Or even 7s-eent silver dollars?
The herald., 1896-06-07
Not q Fish Story

Marshal P. Wilders latest funny story
reads in this way: "a young man, al
most discouraged, noticed an advertise
ment in one Of the newspapers for a de-
livery man. He called on the merchant,
who made inquiries if he had a horse and
wagon. No. was the reply. The young
man showed such signs Of disappoint-
ment that the merchant said: I tell
you'll have a light one-horse wagon
which you can use If you find horse
Said the young man: Let me see it,
After examining it carefully he came to
the conclusion that he would try to hold
the job for few days by dragging it
around himself. He delivered the
goods without much trouble the first
day, but the second day he did not re-
turn at noon and the merchant became
alarmed. However, in the middle of the
afternoon the young man appeared. He
was all bruised and the wagon was
badly broken. The merchant asked him
what was the matter and If he had been
run into by the cars. oh, no., said the
young man. T delivered the goods all
right, and was coming home when a
little gust of wind blew some paper
across the street and shied and ran
away and broke things up generally"
Exchange.
The herald., 1896-06-07
PRESIDENTIAL BOOMS
AND WHISKERS

IT Is a proverb among politicians tnat
a man with a smooth face nowadays sell
dom succeeds in gaining the summit
of his political ambition. A poiltGal
sage who quoted the proverb yesterday
handed out the following list OF smooth
faced noliticians. Democrats and Repub-
licans:
William H. Seward, Samuel ]. Tilden,
william %, Russell, Arthur Pue German.
Hoke Smith, Wilson e. Bissell, John G.
Carlisle, william M. Evarts, William
Mckinley, Thomas B. Reed, Lew +.
Morton.
All are familiar with the career of Mr..
Seward, as governor of the state of New
York, as United States senator for the
state and as secretary Of state in Mr..
Lincolns cabinet. When the New York
delegation went to Chicago in 1860 to
present the name Of Mr.. Seward for
president every man in the delegation
was positive that Mr.. Seward would be
the candidate. From Mr.. Evarts, who
presented Mr.. Stewards name to the
convention, down to Tom Hyer, the pug
Hist, who was also delegate, not one
believed that Mr.. Seward could be beat
en-. The other day Mr.. Evarts recalled
many of the incidents of the convention
and smiled when he said:
Il don't know whether hoodooed Mr..
Seward or he hoodooed me. We both
had smooth faces, and perhaps that was
the cause of our failure. am not pre-
pared to dispute the superstition"
1t has been well known for twenty
years that Mr.. Evarts had in his heart
an ambition to be president. The high
est runs in political fame attained by
Mr.. Seward was as Mr. Lincolns secre-
tary Of state, and Mr.. Evarts was Hayes
secretary of state.
Coming along to Mr.. Tilden, every
body comedies now that he was elected
nresidant in 1878 Rut with the Chan.
dlers, the vote Of a partisan Republican
in the supreme court of the United
States, and his smooth face, Mr. Tilden
was kept out Of the place.. The hoodoo
against smooth faced politicians has
been in operation only since Mr.. Lin
coins time, according to the soothsay-
ers. 1t is also true that UP to a few
The herald., 1896-06-07

renee, ana 10 suffer and smile again and
TINS quality Paris possesses in the high
est degree. | may add that few women
nave been called upon to suffer and en-.
uufe more than she has. The caressine.
auornlng hand of the second empire.
Wnich Wooed and betrayed her: the buf-
Ietlng OF the commune, which cursed
ana spat upon her; the heel of the Prus-
slan' Wnlch left its mark upon her face
-sne has known and endured them all.
and lived to bring forth the republic in
sore travail and pain, and then to deck
herselt once more in jewels and silken
ropes and smile welcome to the world
that courts and adnres her She re-
Jolces, too, in the admiration that she
excites, for there is no woman, no matter
now beautiful or how much admired, who
Is not pleased with the homage of the
most humble and unworthy of her suit
ors. Therefore, [ am sure that Paris is
glad that have found her beautiful just
as l am sure that London awaits my
verdict with absolute indifference.
She has a memory, too, this feminine
capital, much longer one, in fact than
most women have for those who have
served her or added to her glory. There
are monuments everywhere, but none
more solemn and impressive than the
splendid block under the gilt dome of
the Invaldes, which covers the dust Of
world, and whose memoirs, including
three hundred and four hitherto unpub-
lshed portraits, are in the hands of the
Mcclure syndicate.
Paris has another womanly trait, am
afraid, and that is a lack of the sense Of
humor. If her sense of the comical were
better developed she would find it inn
possible to look unmoved at one of her
own soldiers, four feet in height and clad
in trousers fashioned for the late Dam
iel Lambert. She would shed tears over
the "comiques," as the undertakers are
called who appear at the music halls
land try to be funny by painting their
noses red and wearing electric bulbs in
their ears.
One could be happy all day long on q
Partisan Sunday were it not for these
depressing manners and the knowledge
that a serial story by Paul Bourget is
current in the Paris Herald.--James L.
Ford in New York Journal
Paint, floor, 75c. 1923 S. Spring.
The herald., 1896-06-07
WOMANLY TRAITS OF
THE FRENCH CAPITAL

PARIS, May 6.-It was on Sunday af
ternoon that l looked for the first time
in my life upon the face of Paris, in pre-
cisely the same spirit that would look
upon the face of a famouSly beautiful
woman whom I had crossed the ocean
to see. And no princess awaiting the
arrival of a kingly suitor ever clothed
herself in more enhancing garb or step
ped forth in more brilliant flood of light
than did this fascinating, beautiful and
essentially feminine capital at the mo-
ment of my coming And every hour
that has passed since has only served to
deepen my first impression, that Paris
is more like lovely, capricious, adora-
BILE, subtle woman than anything else
that the good Lord has put on earth to
gladden. our lives and mock our powers
of reasoning.
I suppose this simile has been employ
ed thousand times before-in fact, 1t
seems such an obvious one to me that
blush to employ it now-but it is the
only way in which can convey an idea
of my first impression of the city to
which, as the late Tom Appleton said,
the good American goes when he dies.
And / will add that 1 am inexpressibly
happy when I think that, doubtful con-
cerning the hereafter, I took time by the
forelock and am here now in the flesh.
Driving along the broad boulevard
through the Champs Elysees and into
the great, leafy Bots de Boulogne,
looked at the thousands Of people on
foot, on bicycles, on horseback, in car
riages and omnibuses or sitting in front
of the cafes, and I began to comprehend
the possibilities Of Sunday as a great
holiday, a veritable day of recreation
for the people of a great city. When 1
saw the children actually running about
on the grass and gathering great bunch
es of wild flowers, looked anxiously
about and hoped that the police
would not catch them. When
thirst came upon me I found
myself hunting for the side door
of the cafe that stood wide open to the
street And when I found that it was
possible to obtain something more
agreeable to the palate than the death
dealing soft. drinks with which we