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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
tests that his combination craft can be

tests that his combination craft can be
used in almost any sort Of weather.
The air tanks at either end give 1t
buoyancy which reduces the danger of
sinking almost to q minimum, and at
the same time materially aids the rider
in maintaining his position. This craft
can turn in its own length, and while
it can be used, as has been demon.
strated, in almost any kind of weather,
it is particularly adapted for use on
inland water.
1t can be loaded as heavily as any Or
binary canoe, and the method of pro-
pulsion is much less fatiguing than
either paddle or oars, There is no
complicated machinery to get out of
order, no gasoline or naphtha engine
to care for and supply, and it is for this
reason as much as any other that Capt.
Thompson claims to have evolved a
craft of material value to inland hunt.
ers and sportsmen as well as to those
who have occasion to put OFF shore in
all sorts of weather.
In addition to its many other unique
features the entire machinery of the
boat can be taken out and so compact
ly folded that it may be carried under
ones arm, while the hull itself is SC
compactly folded that it may be car
ried around like any portage ordinarily
used by trappers or iidnters.
Capt. Thompson is now at work try
ing to simplify some of the machinery
of the craft, and he claims that when he
accomplishes this he will have craft
which can, without undue eXertion, be
pedaled through the water at the rate
of Is miles an hour, with very little ex.
ertion to the rider
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
Taileyrsnd's IntriGuea

At first he appears to have desired
violent death for Napoleon. in the hope
of furthering his own schemes during
a long imperial regency. At all
events, he ardently opposed the de-
parture Of the empress and the king Of
Rome from Paris. Nevertheless 1t was
he who dispatched Vitrolles, the pas
sionate royalist, to Nesselrode with
letter in invisible ink which, when de-
ciphered, turned out to be an inscrut-
able riddle capable Of two interpreta-
lions. Lannes had long before stig-
matized the unfrocked bishop as
mess of filth in a silk stocking; Murat
said he could take kick from behind
without showing II in his face. His
fellow conspirators were scarcely less
bitter in their dislike than his avowed
enemies. Yet he pursued the even ten
or of his course, scattering innuendos,
distributing showers of anonymous
pamphlets, smuggling English news
papers into the city, in fact working
every wire of conspiracy.-Prof. w. NJ
Sloane, In Century,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27

gentleman. The girl looked at her
neighbor, and, as the train entered d
tunnel, dived her hand toward a purse
which was in the pocket of her coat,
and found hand already there. Firm
" she seized it, determined to unmask
the villain, who was feebly imploring
her in a whisper to let him go. As the
train emerged into daylight the singu-
lar spectacle of respectable young
lady, with her hand in the pocket of a
pale and terrified preacher, whose hand
she was grasping by no means tenderiy,
was revealed. The young lady had
simply got into the wrong pocket.
perhaps the most Embarrassing expo
rience l ever had occurred about three
years ago, when 1 was returning from
a holiday visit to my relatives up in
Maine. I had occasion to take late
train for Boston. The three other pas
sengers In the car alighted at sta
ton the last but one before very long
run, and left me to the enjoyment of
my cigar and paper.
1--WE were fairly started on the
stretch before us, when felt hand
grip my ankle. For the moment was
petrifed with fear; then pitching for
ward l saw livid face with krotted
veins in the temples and blazing eyes,
protrude itself from under the seat.
The left hand still retained hold of my
foot, while the right held d revolver,
which he leveled at me.
eff you move you are dead man.
said the hidden assassin, as he wriggled
the rest of his body out.
"For the briefest second he took his
eyes off mine, when, like lightning, I
kicked the revolver from his hand and
fell upon him. Securing the weapon
kept the attacl1er at bay while !
clutched the bell cord. Selling his OPP
portunity-for I had partly to turn
he sprang upon me. I fired and hit
him; but he closed and we rolled from
side to side in a deadly struggle. The
train, however, was slowing up, when
my assailant, loosing my hold of him,
sprang to the door, opened it and
jumped or fell out. After hearing my
experience the conductor and some
other passengers searched the line and
found my enemy lying near stone cop
ing dead. Whether he was mad or a
daring robber was never known, for his
Identity remained undiscovered"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
Why Are Women So Careless as
to Neglect Them?
SEVERE SUFFERING SURE TO FOLLOW
Mrs. c. c. Mott, of Danbury, Conn, Warns
Women to Act Promptly Mrs.
Pinkham, and is Thankful One Woman
Made Women's Complaints a Study.

1t is wonderful how little Importance
most women attach to first symptoms,
snd this simple fact is really the cause
for half the suffering later In their
life.
A woman's body is the repository of
the most delicate mechanism in the
whole realm OF, creation, and yet most
women will let it get out of order and
keep out of order just as if it were of
no consequence.
Their back aches and head throbs
and burns, they have wandering pains
now here and now there. They expert
ence extreme lassitude, that don 't-care
and t-to-be-left-alone feeling. ex-
citability, irritability, Nervousness,
sleeplessness and the blues, yet they
will go about their work unt.l they can
scarcely stand on their poor swollen
feet and do nothing to help themselves.
These are the positive forerunners of
serious womb complications, and I'M
less given immediate attention will re-
suit in untold misery, if not death.
Lydia L. Pinliham's Vegetable Com
pound will, beyond the question of a
doubt, relieve all this trouble before it
becomes serious, and it has cured many
after their troubles had become chronic.
The Compound should be taken i'm
mediately upon the appearance of any
of the symptoms above enumerated. 1t
is a vegetable tonic which invigorates
and stimulates the entire female organ
ism, and will produce the same bene-
fetal results in the case of any sick
woman as it did with Mrs. c. c. Mott,
No. Ellsworth Ave, Danbury, Conn,
whose letter we attach:
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
JOHN WALES JANUARY.
War Veteran Who Amputated His
Legs with a Knife.
lie Tells Chicago Reporter How, with .
Broken PoclSetknife, He Saved Him
self from Gangrene and lnev-
liable Death.

John Wales january, the Illinois
union soldier, who is famous as the
man who amputated both his own legs
witha pocketknifewh in a confederate
prison, is in Chicago having new set of
artificial limbs made by an orthopedist,
Mr.. January, who is as fine-loolling
and intelligent man as anyone could
Wish to meet is now farmer and stock
raiser at Dell Rapids, S. d. He was for
three years postmaster of the Illinois
house of representatives, has been tax
collector of his town, and department
inspector of the Grand Army of the
Republic for South Dakota, and could
have been state senator if he had had
an aspiration to political honors. His
gait and carriage are still soldierly.
His story, as related by a reporter for
the Chicago Tribune, was as follows:
my grandfather was a Frenchman
who came to this country before the
revolution and was the first settler on
the site of whatis now Lexington, Ky
My father was born in Kentucky, but
removed first to Ohio and then to Hi
1lOlS. L WAS DOIll Ill 1lllllOu County, W.,
and removed to Minonk, Ill.,, in 1861.
Tn the fall of 1862 l enlisted in company
b of the Fourteenth Illinois cavalry,
and served mostly in connection with
the Army of the Cumberland.
"In July, 1864, while on Stone1nan's
raid from Atlanta to Macon, was cap
tured by six rebels and sent to Ande1-
sonville. When Atlanta fell was taken
to Charleston, S. c., for ten days, being
exposed all that time to the fire of the
union gunboats, and was then sent to
Florence, S. c., where l remained dur
ing the winter of 1S64'65.
"In February, 1865, while at Florence,
I was attacked by the swamp fever and
was delirious for three weeks. When
the fever abated scurvy and gangreen
followed, and / was sent to the gan
green hospital. The disease settled in
my feet and ankles, and after some
time they lost sensibility and the flesh
began to slough off. The surgeon gave
inc no attention, and brutally told me
] would die. told him / would live if
he would amputate my feet, but he re
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
NOVEL BICYCLE BOAT.
Unique Mechanical Combination
Devised by a Californian.
The Strange Craft Goes Eight Miles an
Hour - 1t Has Weathered Rough
Water and Can Turn Around
In Its Own Length.

A bicycle that really goes to sea just
like a boat, that carries it's rider safely
through storm or calm, that floats like
a duck and turns in its own length, is
the invention Of San Francisco man.
Many inventors claim to have made
water bicycles, but they are usually
useful only as sources of amusement to
nature. The aquacycle which Capt.
Colin Thompson has built, however, is,
according to the New York Herald, not
one of this kind, for it exists and has al
ready carried it's maker out to sea, and,
what is still better, has brought him
safely back.
This bicycle" or aquatic wheel,
combines features of the racing yacht,
the bicycle and the steam launch. 1t
has the propeller, rudder and machin-
cry of the launch; the lines, hull and
build of the yacht, and the complete
workings of the bicycle, all combined.
Capt. Thompson is a well-known char
acter in San Francisco, and what he
does not know about cogs, shafts and
wheel fixtures in general could be writ
ten in a very small space.
lie has succeeded in applying the mo-
tive power of The bicycle to the frame of
a boat, and the computation makes the
aqtlacycle. On the outside this craft,
or vehicle, looks as much like naphtha
launch as anything else. The lines of
the hull follow very nearly those of the
most modern racing yachts, notably the
Defender At either end of the hull is
an aiI-tight compartment, which gives
additional buoyancy to the affair. In
place of rear wheel Capt. Thompson
has three blade, six-inch propeller,
and above that rudder.
Above the gunwaie is an ordinary
saddle such as is common to all land
cycles. A handle bar serves as tiller
and the propeller is worked by the
pedals. AS the pedals are moved around
they start a set Of cog wheels, which in
tarn revolve the propeller shaft. and
the three-blade six-inch propeller at the
stern is sent revolving at the rate of
40 revolutions per minute. At this rate
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
Philosophic Dog In Paris.

"Chocolat" is a Partisan canine Gu.
-iosity who has been attracting much
public attention Of late. He is nobody's
dog, but he has managed to play his
cards so well that he can lunch at q
fashionable restaurant near the Made
leine and dine in an equally select eat
ing establishment in the Bots de Bou-
logne. Recently somebody has given
linn brass collar, inscribed with the
words: "Chocolat, the philosophic dog,
who has no master" The animal man
uges to obtain free meals in the res
taurants by killing rats. He is also to
be seen occasionally at the cafe concerts
in the Champs Elysees, but nobody
Knows where he sleeps. He is sometimes
as a vagrant, but his collar
soon obtains for him speedy release
from Imprisonment.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
A BLoCDLEss TRAGEDY.
The Part Rum Played In "a Once HappY
Home

Some instinct impclled me, as peda.
gogue, to be merciful yet strict in my
administration of discipline in the case
of a pupil who was stubbornly sly and
slyly stubborn--a combination possible
in the makeup of boy who submits
to the bondage of school-life as tenn
porary solution of the problem of earn
ing his living under the guardianship OF
a parent whom he is obliged to tolerate.
But there came a sudden climax to af-
fairs one day, and my pupil, becoming
less sly and more stubborn, was exiled
from my empire until / could investi-
gate his environment.
| followed him to his haunts--or to
one of them-and there listened to the
recital of history, which was q trag-
edy of hearts, almost as tense and ter
rible as those assassinations whose rec
ords redden the annals of beautiful
Florence on the Arno.
Between us!''-that was the seal Of
secrecy imposed upon me. Perhaps
should not break it, but the story
has elements of urgency and stress that
makes it worth retelling, though per-
haps it is cruelty common.
1t was disclosed to me that my pupil
lived in a home Swallowed by the hor-
rors of bloodless tragedy-the trag-
edy of death in life. l had supposed
his mother dead; he had permitted me.
to infer that. ! had pitied him, had
pardoned him, having had my heart
softened by baptisms of tears in the
valley of shadows.
But his mother was living; l could
not learn where; my informant did not
know. Where she was, there would no
longer be home! Physicians pronounced
her ''insane." She had been consigned
to a sanitarium, but sanitarium fees are
large. She had been withdrawn. but
was not crazy enough to be sent to an
asylum. and her husband would not
consign her to the works" as com
mon drunliard," nor to an inebriate
asylum.
OF course. she was "insane" Alco-
hol is brain poison. 1t causes insan.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
TOLD BY A DRUMMER.
Some of the Adventures He Has
Met with in Travelilg
How He Escaped from Mad Dog-An
Amusing Mistake Made by Modest
Young Lady-Experience with
Mailman.

The experience of railway traveller
is large and varied. Nine out of ten
commercial travellers, perhaps, have
had sufficient adventure to fill q book,
if they would only set to work to write
it. Notwithstanding We drummer is
won't to complain of the monotony of
constant journeying, he would no doubt
be 10th to give up life that has, per-
haps, more than it's share of novelty
and excitement. A few strange incl
dents of the rail have been gathered by
Cincinnati Enquirer man from i
drummer acquais lance. Propping his
feet up at comfortable angle, he
said.
Its nearly five years now since
stalked into an empty coach on a south
ern line. 1t was a pretty sultry day.
and settled down to fan myself with
a newspaper and gasp for breath. Pres
emily a scratching scuilie sounded
under my seat, and wretched little yell
low monerel terrier crawled out. Ee
looked hot, his eyes burned Ike June
giowworms, and his mouth was baked
and dry. lie took one look at me, and
sprang at my wrist, Quickly ] lodged,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
"IF DRINK BRANDY, 1T 10
THROUGH WRETCHEDNESS."

life, had become drunkard. Under
vows of law and love to be faithful she
had become false, though not unchaste;
under ordinance of beneficial nature
to cherish children, had bred discords,
falsities, antagonism and, at last, had
ruptured all the ties of home.
There was a divorce of mutual con-
sent, and father and son dwelt together,
though father saw nothing of son ex-
cept in the late evening at the end of
long days toll, Soon the son, who
had been taught by his mother to
mock at his father, drifted into novel
reading, theater-going, the culture of
a libidinous imagination. Once he had
sung with the choir boys in a church,
beautiful with the grace of pure altar
cloths, of white candles shining near
the cross, of sweet flowers on festal
days. He knew the great symbols of
Christian faith He had had vision of
the life of that Mother of Nazareth,
whose babe, born at Bethlehem, was
the Son of God; yet, because his mother
had fallen under the damning sway of
the demon of drink, he must lose the
blessings of sane, charming, transfgur-
ing home life.
He lives in the shadows of hell who
rises up to call his mother cursed. To
ask him his history is to insult him.
Famine said to M. Javert eff I
drink brandy, it is through wretched-
ness; I do not like it, but it makes me
reckless"
There are women, who, under social
temptation, become reckless-and their
recltlessness breeds wretchedness
which ".'st wret'r3 -t,55orr1sc!!,.oa--"
then vnosv s2nosv live !:n6 hi.til +:
theirs. Their sin of sins is this: They
murder mems faith in the ideal real
liable in womanhood. They breed I'M
happiness; If they are ever glad, their
joy is that "black happiness" of the
wicked who are weak and of the weak
who are wicked.
But their defense shall be this in the
day of wrath: "The man whom Thou
gavest US that his guardianship might
be the grace of our life and his power
my peace, gave us to drink!"-George
Milton Hammell, in Union Signal
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
and again he sprang. I Kicked him

and again he sprang. ! Kicked him
away, and it flashed on me that the
brute was mad. 1t was only three days
since had seen friend die of hydro.
phobia, and l remembered the details
one by one. jumped for the door,
which succeeded in reaching after
admiG} ring several vigorous ard
well-dnected kicks at my dangerous as
sailant Through the glass of the door
could see the little brute tearinground
and round, every little while sprnging
at the glass in the door in a vain effort
TO reach me. At last, with desperate
leap, he flew through the open window,
and l reentered the car.
81 remember an amusing incident
that happened last winter upon the &C.
casion of one of my periodical visits TO
Chattanooga. The ear was crowded ter
libly; because of an excursion of north
erners. Across the aisle from me sat
a very pretty girl, and at her side a
rnost respectable and pious looking
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27

Mrs. Cleveland played great dea'
during her husbands first administra-
ton, and, much to her delight, beat
every evening man who is considered
the best player in the navy. She
scorned TO agree to the suggestion
that her victory was due to the gall
lantry of the officer. Lately Mrs. Cleve-
land has been too busy playing jack
straws and building houses of blocks
to indulge in her old amusement, and
has given it up.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27

the craft will go eight and half miles
an hour, and the inventor claims that
with few alterations the speed can be
brought up to IL miles an hour. The
hull of the boat is IL feet 6 inches in
length and feet 3 inches in breadth.
Her greatest draught is IA inches. All
of the machinery runs on ball bearings,
and there is the least possible amount
of friction.
AS the rider sits on the machine
about one-half OF The body is above the
gunwale. The pedals. acting on the
cog wheel, which in turn operatcs the
propeller, are down within what in a
larger boat would be termed the fin.
There is no sproclet and chain. but in
stead series Of beyeled y ..cels con-
meeting With th2 rsol ellcr shaft,
Il has been demonstrated by practical
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
Where Women Do the wooinc.

Between the mountains of India and
Persia is powerful tribe among whom
an extraordinary custom prevails.
Women's rights apparently have re-
ceived full recognition, for the ladies of
the tribe can choose their own hus-
bands, All a single woman has to do
when she wishes to change her state is
TO send servant to pin handkerchief
to the hat of the man on whom her
fancy lights, and he is obliged to marry
her, unless he can show he is too poor
to purchase her at the price her father
REQUIRES
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27

1t is faith that has made life worth
the living and robbed death of its sting.
Divine faith is still Gods cksRest gift
to man, and until the worlds consum-
nation will still be so. Nothing can take
its place in regard to mans moral up
rightness or the worlds true greatness.
Men have toiled and toiled for prin-
ciple outside of religion that could up
hold morality, but failed. Nothing can
supply the place of divine faith.-Rev.
j. C. Monahan.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27

81 had inflammation of the womb
very badly, in fact, the doctors said it
was chronic, but after giving Lydia e.
Pinkham's Compound and Sanative
Wash u thorough trial, found myself
gaining, and now think am perfectly
healthy. The first symptoms of this
trouble are bacSache, bearing-down
pains, irritation of the bladder, consti-
patton and leucorrhea. am sati.1icd
that it is the medicine for female weak
ness. / cannot praise your remedies
enough. l thank God there was one
woman that made woman,s complaints
her life study. Her remedies have been
blessing to me, and l only wish thou
sands of suffering women could be per-
suaded to use them. | never miss
chance 10 recommend it.
A STANDING INVITATION.
Women suffering from any form of fe-
male weakness are invited to promptly
communicate with Mrs. Pinllham at
Lynn, Mass. All letters are received,
opened, read and answered by women
only. A woman can freely talk of her
private illness to a woman; thus has
been established the eternal confidence
between Mrs. Pinllham and the women
of America which has never been
broken. Out of the vast volume of ex-
perience which she has to draw from it
is more than possible that she has
gained the very knowledge that will
help your case. She asks nothing in
return except your good will, and her
advice has relieved thousands. Surely,
any woman, rich or poor, is very fool
ish If she does not take advantage of
this generous offer of assistance.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27
--"Stand up for Jesus" in your heart
and life as well as with your tongue
Chicago Standard.
Kent Her Word.

"And yet to think that only one short
summer ago." he Kissed, you vowed
to me that you would never marry for
gold"
The maiden smiled with the air Of
one who had lead-pipe cinch. $50
shall not said she. His wealth is all
IN real estate" -Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27

at the hands OF a mob, then we know
what 1t is to be humble. A sublime
lowliness, splendid modesty, a stern
sweetness, strong tenderness-that
Is humility. "Love vaunteth not it.
self, is not pulled up, seeketh not it's
own; beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things" He that kneels before God
needs not to kneel to any man; let
him stand upright, and honor God by
respecting himself and his fel!owmen.
Chicago Standard.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1896-11-27

Fond Mother-This is my son Clar.
ence. He is only 10, but he has written
some beautiful poetry.
Friend-Then there is some hope for
him.
II am so glad to hear you say So"
"Yes, when they are so young as that
1t is easier to lick it out of them
Sketch.