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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
Correspondence.
A Friend Defen DIS 81 Clone.

EDITOR SIFTER-In your Issue of
Oct. 9Th, GA son of the Revolution"
undertakes to give ST Clone fits.
Now l have known 81 for several
years and, although he is given to
speaking very plainly and usually to
the point, he does not lack for patri-
otism. He was but Is when the war
broke out yet he offered his services
but failed to pass the examination.
He was told that there were cripples
enough in the army then. Thus it
was he failed to obtain a war record.
But for this he might today be able
to append to his name Maj. U. S.
Army. He misses his quarterly pen
sion simply because he had the rheu
matlsm before the war. But the old
soldier never had a better friend than
ST Clone. His home, his pocket and
his voice are ever at their service.
All, we'll do remember one hot Me
mortal day how he and his good wife
halted road full of dusty, thirsty
and hungry veterans and irrigated
the whole detachment from drum ma
jor to "high private" They were the
only welcome faces we saw in that
section. AS to his description of the
Fair it was plain but mostly true and
the So called attack upon the "foats"
were really as great many saw it.
No one claims but the ladies on these
floats were good, motherly, industri-
Gus, prudent wives, maidens and
mothers, the acme of virtue, intelli
gence, piety and kindness, but unless
my camera falsified they were not
particularly handsome and the i'm
preston the picture gives that they
got themselves up to see how odd,
droll. old-fashioned and homely they
could look. But if any one of them
thinks that she was handsome on that
day and will send in her photo so we
can pick her out of the crowd | will
wipe her face off the negative and
put a sunfower in it's place Or pict-
ure of Martha Washington.
Son of the Revolution says 81 is
homely. He knows it; he never was
handsome he feels sorry for 1t too,
but consoles himself with the knowl-
edge that not all the good people are
handsome. You know that Abe
Lincoln was very homely man and
couldn't write Major after his name,
but be was honest and true.
ST Clone is lineal descendant of
the Scotch and English martyrs of
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Some of his ancestors were burned at
the stake for religious views. On his
maternal side were Quakers who
came over about the time Cotton
Mather advised that the Quakers be
captured and sold in the West IDdies
for rum and molasses, that it might
rebound to the glory of God and for
the benefit of the church. One of
his ancestors fought with Paul Jones !;
some of them were among the Green
Mountain Boys IN II yet he does
not parade himself on their records.
He is willing to be plain American
citizen who toadies to no clique or
clan, and believes that just as good
men and women live today as ever
did, and that his wife, whose ances-
tors were commissioned officers in the
revolution, is one of the best women
living, even if she does not belong to
any secret society.
81 Clones FRIEND.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

The decision of Judge Wheeler in
the U. S. circuit court discharging
Arthur Weeks who was held for re-.
tusing to give the names of persons
holding U. S. liquor tax receipts set
ties a vexed question and gives prohib-
ition light tap between the eyes.
Hereafter other evidence than that of
paying this tax will have to be relied
upon if this order of the court stands.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
What He Manted.

SIS there anything in my house you
would like to have?" asked the man, as
he frowned over the back fence at his
next-door neighbor.
"Yes," came from the other side of
the fence; "Pd like to have you send
the insides of that piano your daughter
bangs on, out to my barn" -Yonkers
Statesman.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

You can't cure consumption but you
can avoid it and cure every other form of
throat or lung trouble by the use of One
Minute Cough Cure.
c. +. Bacon, Londonderry, +. E. Smith
Jamaica, Jonas Hill, Bondville. G. G.
Smith, So. Londonderry and F. B. Pier,
Jacksonville.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

j.. M. Thirswend, of Grosbeck, Tex,
says that when he has spell of indiges-
ton, feels bad and sluggish, he takes two
of DeWitt's Little Early Risers at night,
and he is all right the next morning.
Many thousands of others do the same
thing. Do you
C. E. Bacon, Londonderry, F. E..
Smith, Jamaica and Jonas Hill Bond
vile, G. G. Smith, So. Londonderry and
f. B. Pier, Rawsonville.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Hon. W. j. Bryan is doubtless
just about as anxious to see Henry
George elected mayor of New York
city as Hon. William Mckinley is to
see Seth Low win, and for the same
reason. The success of either
George or Low would make them
Presidential possibilities.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
--'------'----=----------------
FTHr GOmnenr.

II have noticed" said Willie Wishing
ton, that woman always puts the
most important part of her letter in the
postscript"
"You never do that" said Miss Cay
enne.
"Never."
WELL" she went on, thoughtfully,
isn't it better to put the important
part of letter in the postscript than to
leave it out altogether?'- Washington
Sfar
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
Mhat do ,he children DRINK 2

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried
the new food drink called Grain-o? Its delic-
ious and nourishlng and takes the place of coffee
The more Grain-o you give the children the
more health you distribute through their sys-
ems. Grain-0 is made of pure grains, and
ltastes like choice coffee but costs about IA e
much All grocers sell .. at 3;t,s
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
CARKUI.L .. AGE,
Hyde Park, VT, Oct. 10, 1897.

Small pill, safe pill, best pill. DeWitts
Little Early Risers cure biliousness, con-
stipation, sick headache.
c. E. Bacon, Londonderry, +. E Smith
Jamaica, Jonas Hill, Bondville, G. G.
Smirh, So. Londonderry and F. B. Pier,
Jacksonville.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Another American girl is going to
be Counted on the other side. The
early marriage of Miss Woerishoffer,
of New York, to Count Charles Sci
Tern, (of the Lord knows where), is
announced by the London papers.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

The Treasury Department has found
it necessary, in view of many inquiries
received, to state that it does not hold
in trust any money belonging to the
estate of Joseph Ball, of Philadelphia.
This is believed to be a new sort of
confidence game that is being played
upon the gullible.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

The old historic town of Windsor,
Nova Scotia, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire Sunday morning. Of
the $500 inhabitants 5000 are home.
less. The fire ragged for six hours and
was famed by violent northwest
gale.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Mormonism, and not republicanism,
democracy or populism, is to be the
political creed Of all the Mormons of
Utah, if the advice of President Wood
ruff, of the Mormon Church, is follow
ed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Gen. Miles has returned 10 Wash
iDgton, and if he hasn't blacklisted all
the photographers who have poked fun
at him during his stay in Europe he
must be very forgivingly disposed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
Youthful racetiou.ne...

when you have-a sore. tooth you go
to the dentist and he pulls it, don't
hep"
Eyes, my son."
Now that you've got sore leg If you
go to the doctor will he pull it?"
with deep feeling) "Yes, my son."
Brooklyn Life
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

1t is great pity that the ten million
gallonos of water lost by the bursting
of big supply pipe in New York
could not have been utilized, in con-
nection with the prohibition soap that
is being distributed there, to wash some
of the filth out Of the politics of the
town.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

If the new pneumatic tube postal
service, over which New Workers are
as happy as boys with their first trous
ers, could only be utilized to shoot a few
of the most activejawed politicians of
that town into the middle of the Allan
tic, it would be an almighty good rid
dance.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Real estate fakirs have been selling
deeds to West Virginia lands that do
not exist. 1t is believed that fake
deeds to more than a million acres
have been disposed of.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

If DR.. Borchgrevinck, who is going
to take an expedition in search of the
South pole, ever enters the lecture
field, he will have to provide himself
with special advance agent to teach
the pronunciation of his name.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Mr.. Coils P. Huntington, the raj
way magnate, keeps three residence
always ready to receive himself and
family, but he will not need three
graves.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Charles A. Dana, veteran editor
of the N. Y Sun died at his home on
Long Island Sunday. This removes
from the journalistic field brilliant
but eccentric head light.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
Ready Made.

"Bilger says no woman could make
fool of him."
We'll, then, he's right"
"Right?"
Yes, she'd be too late" = Chicago
Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Gov. Pingree had merely tired of
the old methods of getting free adver-
Using when he took that little trip to
South America.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Perhaps it was because of his having
been farmer that the Secretary of
Agriculture found is SO easy to to take
the stump in Ohio.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

The development of electrical power,
now only in its infancy, is certain to
revolutionize conditions that have here
tofore existed. It is more than proba
BILE that in the near future water pow
er now running to waste will be utilized
to run cars into scores of Vermont
towns which to-day are destitute of
railroad facilities. The press of Yer
mont can engage in no more glorious
service than that of educating our peo-
pie, touching the advantages we pos
sess. 1t is to the press that we must
look for the successful advocacy Of such
changes in our laws as will enable us
to keep at home the millions OF dollars
which our savings banks now loan in
the far West. To day those banks are
the ready and convenient vehicle for
transporting out of the state monies
which ought to be used, and which, in
my opinion, with liberal legislation,
can be as proftably and more safely
used, in building up and developing
home industries. fully believe that
we have only to adop. liberal and
broad gagged policy to bring about the
much desired combination of cheap
money, cheap power, and cheap trans
portation, and this combination will, |
am confident, be the open sesame to
success, the beginning OF new era in
the growth and development of our
good Green Mountain State.
CARROLL S. PAGE,
Hyde Park, VT, Oct. 10, 1897.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
A Good Sign.

Whiffers-Do you think your railr bed
suit for $4,000 damages will be de-
cided in your favor?
Bliffers-I guess so. notice my law
yer has given an order for new yacht.
IN. Y. Weekly.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Perhaps after all the new Spanish
ministry is only playing horse with
President Mckinley and his Cuban
n olicy
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
From Her Point

From Her Point of View.
Mr.. Cynic-Marriage is the church
yard of love.
Miss Cutting-And you men are the
gravediggers.-Brooklyn Life.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
THE -
Sitter John. Editor.

Copies of this paper caa be obtained
THE Brottle6oro Nesos rooms, Eliot
Street, Brottle6oro.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
Elizabeth, N. j., Oct. 10, 1896

ELY Bros, Dear Sirs PLEASE ac-
cept my thanks for your favor in the
gift of bottle of Cream Balm. Let me
say have used it for years and can
thoroughly recommend it for what it
claims, if directions are followed.
YOurs truly
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Judge-What is your age, miss?
Female itness-I-I-throw myself
on the mercy of the court.
III give you about so years."
Thank you, judge" = Tammany
rimHs
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
Yours truly,
(Rey.l II. W. HARHAMA

No clergyman should be without it.
Cream Balm is kept by all druggists.
Full size SOC. Trial size 10 cents. We
mail it.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren St., N. Y. City.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Avoid1ng dangerous Ground.
'That man Levoles never ceases to be
perfect gentleman" said an admiring
acquaintance.
eyes" was the reply; che absolutely
refuses to be led into conversation
about the weather. Washington Star.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
Kisrnet.

There's many fellow who tries with 3
will,
Yet fate is so very averse.
He never can lead the procession until
He is given ride in the hearse.
Il. A w. Bulletin.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

Willie Wimples-Win you love me
when I'm gone?
Daisy Dimples-Yes, indeed-if you'll
go now.-Town Topics.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

East Waliingford, Vt.,-I was sub
ject to sinking spells and tried many
kinds of,medic,ne but did not get any bet
ter. One day my husband brought home
Hoods Pills and began taking them.
soon had these spells less frequently,
kept on with Hoods Sarsaparilla and
Hoods Pills until l was entirely cured
and had no return of the sinking spells.
Mrs. Nellie M. Allen.
Hoods Pills are the only pills to take
with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22

apparatus for Sl3,500 personally
pay for use of power 10 my hide
house and wool-pulling plant enough
to cover the interest on the entire
S13, 500, and if the 81 gge 'tions named
under this head could be made feast
ble---and | believe they could be-
considerably more than enough to do
so. This leaves the entire income
from electric lights, and from the
two concerns other than my own
which use the power, to pay the Incl
dental expenses of running, and to
reduce our debt.
l might add in this connection that
probably not over GO per cent. of
our power is used.
AN IMPORTANT SUGGESTION
Now my suggestion is this:-
The savings banks of Vermont are to.
day carrying hundreds OF thousands of
dollars of municipal bonds which do
not pay them over A per cent, and
many of them not over 81 per cent on
a basis to.day's market value OF these
bonds. | would ask the state to
say to these banks that the seven-tenths
of one per cent. tax, now paid the
state, should be abated on the money
loaned at 81 per cent. on the bonds OF
our towns and villages, issued for the
purposes of developing plants like that
which we have in Hyde Park. With
this tax abated this arrangement in
wolves no loss of income to the savings
banks. Indeed, the indirect gains re-
sulting to them from such line OF ac-
ton should be all the inducement nee.
essary to prompt them to give prefer
ence to the municipal bonds of Yer
mont villages, which, so far as | now
recall, have never in the entire history
of our state been in default to the ex.
tent of single dollar.
Who can say that with - per
cent. rate of interest to towns and vii
lagos to develop power, and with A.!
per cent. assured to corporations that
will use the power so developed, that
the question of combination of cheap
power and cheap money has not been
solved, and that too, without asking
our good friends, the managers of our
savings banks, to pursue any course
that will not best subserve their own
in terests and welfare, as custodians OF
the savings of our peopleS
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-10-22
CHEAP POWER.

Vermont has more energy running
to waste than any other of our New
England States. The streams which
flow down our mountain sides ale Ca
pable of generating electrical power
sufficient to turn the wheels of every
manufacturing industry in New Eng
land. Within the past five years i'm
provements in the generation of cleo
tricity have made it practicable to
develop that power on the hill sides
and transmit it at minimum cost to
manufacturing plants located along
side the railroads, and convenient to
our villages where the operatives re-
side.
To illustrate Within the past two
years my own village, Hyde Park,
has put in an electrical plant about
three miles from the village. 1t not
only furnishes our village-both its
streets and buildings-with light, but
also supplies power for manufacture
ing purposes. The entire plant
could today be duplicated, including
cost of real estate and water power, a
new, substantial stone dam, power
house, dynamos, and an entire outfit
of first class and modern electrical
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-05

freight agent OF the Chicago, Milwau.
kee aud ST. Paul, whose headquarters
are at Dubuque. He said: "a thor.
ough investigation at various points
into the cause Of hog cholera leads me
to believe that the disease is caused by
irregular and improper feeding. The
disease is more prevalent in the fall
when the farmers commence to gather
the animals for market than at my
other time. The hogs are then taken
from pastures, crowded into pens and
permitted to gorge themselves with
grain. If care were taken in changing
from Il grain to another and in the
quantity given at regular times, I be-
lieve that what is called hog cholera
would be pre- vented"
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Panl
has an expert on the road all the time
advising farmers and endeavoring to
demonstrate experimentally that the
hog cholera is not caused by a germ, as
it is popularity supposed. The farmers
generally cling to the germ theory and
insist that the disease is contagious.
The demonstrations of the railroad
agents in maintaining the bad feeding
theory, however, are making many
converts anu saving the lives of an i'm
mense number of hogs.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-05
Honest but Cute Yankee.

There is a funny case of international
honesty down in Arizona, just on the
line between that territory and Mexico.
A Yankee farmer lives there, one ANA
sa Barrow by name, and it is his bust
ness to raise chickens. Chicken feed is
cheap in Mexico and chickens bring fine
prices in Arizona, but to raise fowls in
Mexico and bring them across the bound
airy OR to buy the feed and bring 1T
across, would involve the payment Of a
considerable duty, which would eat the
profits about as fast as the hens could
eat the corn. AS for smuggling, that
was not to be thought Of.
Amasa is a Yankee, and he is so hon.
est that his neighbors say he wouldn't
take advantage of a man in a horse
trade. But he is also full of Yankee in
genuity, and after deep cogitation he
built a long, slim hencoop, one-half Of
it in Arizona and the other in Mexico.
On the line there is a gate. Over the
line there are barns containing feed.
At feeding time the gate is opened, and
the chicken fancier Shoes his flock into
Mexico, where they eat their meal.
Then he Shoes them back to the protec-
ton of the American flag, where they
digest this Mexican grain, lay their
eggs and carry on their family affairs.
Mr.. Barrow saves about so per cen on
his grain and makes about that much
on his chickens, and if there is any
smuggling done it is done by the inno-
cent and irresponsible biddies .-Wash-
ingtQn Times.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-05
REFUSED TO PARTICIPATE.
Chicago Federation of Labor Regulates
Haymarket Anarchists.

Chicago Federation of Labor Regulates
Haymarket Anarchists.
CHICAGO. Oct. 5.-Anarchists who
are arranging for a demonstration in
memory Of the men executed for the
Haymarket massacre, dropped a bomb,
so to speak. into the council Of the
Chicago Federation Of Labor, by asking
for the official endorsement and CO.
operation Of union labor. The invita-
ton stirred up a half hours excited de.
bate. The executed men were declared
TO be both tine brothers and enemies Of
man, as fast as succeeding speakers
could get the floor and express them
selves. At length the high council of
union labor went upon record by re-
pudiating any implied fraternity be-
tween unionism and anarchy and fatty
resused to take any part in the coming
exercises. The invitation to take part in
the memorial services vas rejected by a
vote of about four to one. After the
vote a majority of the a~narchistic ele-
ment leftthe hall in a body.
The anarchists will hold the memor.
ial meeting as usual, but it is expected
the gathering will be a tame affair.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-05
WHEAT AND CORN CROP.
Yield in the Northwest l1ns Been Some
what Disappointing.

Yield in the Northwest Has Been some-
what Disappointing.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-The Orange Judd
Farmer, in its final estimate of the
years wheat crop, says that figures
based on actual threshing returns indi-
cate a total yield of $685. 00 GOO bushels,
of which 1913, $50, 900 bushels is winter
and 2l5, AGO. 900 bushels spring wheat.
THE spring wheat yield in Minnesota
and the Dakotas has proven a disap.
pointment, the aggregate being only
1879, 600, 900 bushels. The shortage there
is in a measure counterbalanced by the
good yield in Nebraska, Oregon and
Washington. The report says the corn
crop is exceedingly Disappointing, at an
outside estimate of 100000, 900 bush.
els. An average oat yield of 1877 BUSH
els per acre suggests a crop of 6l4,OOO,-
900 bushels, 100, OcO, 600 more than last
wear.