The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1897-12-03
EAST DORSET.

Gov. CIRCUITS Sunday was here
promptly the Oath and left on time.
A dull, sober, every day institution
it was, mills running as usual, bust
ness the same and not one appar-
emily fresh from Klondike and load.
ed too heavily.
Some errors in our last, suit was
printed "guilt" and mite, "write.
Also in the residence of man. AL
ways glad and thankful to have our
is dotted and is crossed and any and
all other errors corrected, but aren't
tickled to be advertised as putting
arsenic in our ink. We haven't
"cast slurs upon old Peru" whose
correspondent possibly studied a die
tionary by the same author as that of
the school boy who defined "salt as
stuff that makes pertater taste bad
when there amt any of it in" For
this prick of our stub quill we beg
pardon if the said correspondent
wears bonnet to meeting.
County examination for teachers
here Dec. Sd and 4th.
Seven horses have lately closed
their earthly mission. The mourners
are w. d. Herrick, W. o. Wilcox,
W. c. Bowen, Theodore Ames, j..
M. Bebee, Wesley Perry and j. L..
Cochran.
In the SITTER Nov. 10, under "No
Birthstone" are some rather new Or
thodox views of hell by Rev. b..
Fay Mills. What does he know
about hell or what has he ever known
during the 20 years, more or less,
that he has been taking the peoples
money for giving them information
about it,? He has been reasoning all
along, not as he ought from what he
knows but from what he does not
know and is still at it. If be doesn't
know any more about agriculture than
he knows about hell he isn't compe-
tent to raise a hill of beans Dir.
Lyman Abbott is reported in The
Sun New York; of Monday, Nov.
20, 1897 as saying: "During my
study of Paul l found it necessary to
recast my whole theology and my
conception of Christianity" Does
this mean that Mills has a mate ?
But there are sentinels on the watch
towers Of Zion and these gentlemen
will get response about as quickly
as if they knocked at the door of a
hornets nest in hot summer day.
MIR. Mills dropped the burning lake
on which Millions satan "lay floating
many a rood" OUT of his theology on
Sunday the 14th and already several
of these sentinels have been after
him in print sharp. ''Senex" prods
him pi'ilessly in the last SITTER,
After al expenditure of more than
one seventh part of the time for about
two thousand years and of countless
billions of the peoples money to es-
tablish theological dogmas it would
seem safe for these sentinels to come
down and take nap. But never, no
never, apparently, were their duties
so pressing, so increasingly pressing
as now, never so necessary for them
to stay up and keep their eyes wide
open and assisted with squirting
magnifiers.
What an exasperating breakdown
that in ST. Johnsbury told of in the
last SITTER. And what an avalanche
of alienation of wifely affections re-
ported in the newspapers within the
last week or two. One man in New
Jersey sued for the offense, another
in Washington, Mis-. McKinley's
brother in Ohio and others. In
Terre Haute spiritual flock master
wrote letter to one of his lambs and
she had TO have help to keep the Sc
cret and it "split the church." In
Bolton or Jericho twenty-three year
old divine, in an alleged like offense,
split the jury. Defendant in his tes-
timony is reported to have denied
that he called the wife a '.nire or
sweet little Christian" ANYHOW
there appears to have been consider
able Getting" in the lap up there.
Now we need a settled minister in
East Dorset for one of our churches.
But if we settle spiritual minded Rev.
Peleg Sunderland and he alienates
the affections of one or more of our
wives we shall not put our State as
in this last case to $4,000 expense to
try him, but shall do him a la Win
hall. We shall pull his sleeps
clothing and give him substitute to
keep Athe mosquitoes and saddle
of poorly trimmed round timber.
We will teach him to obey the CON-
mandment not to "covet' his neigh
boris sweetest saccharine substance.
We wooed and won our wives affec-
tons by lamp-light and by moon
light and by no light and in attitudes
of religious devotion and JUNCTION and
we are squarely and fairly entitled to