The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1898-01-14
All the NEWS Of the
Battenkill Valley
REPORTED sY AN kreLLieeNT CORPS Of CORRESPONDENTS
EAST DORSET.

Runners now but snow not too
much. Farmers are building their
wood piles and numbering somewhat
and our principal lumbermen, G. II.
Reed and the Shelters are each
exchanging" and whoaing quite a
force of teams.
Our marble business is having a
vacation and report is that Mr.. At
kiuson, foreman of the Dorset Mount
ain Marble company is not to return.
Our sick are Fred Wells and Mrs.
Brown and Mrs. Bovia, The latter
is Il very sick woman.
We read through tears that sundry
of our fast friends in the accident of
Dorset are suffering from physical
disabilities we unwitlingly caused.
Sincerely do we hope they are conva-
descent all Had we employed every
day diction in discoursing on surgi
cal operation some brother scribe
might have informed the SITTER that
we weren't "lit to take charge of one
of our schools"
"Wide open Sunday comes at last
is the heading of column of Mon.
DAYS New York Press. Well, there
were enough republicans and demo.
Gratis opposed to the Tammany Tiger
as appeared from the vote to keeE
that beast out of power in greater
New York But they chose to verify
conspicuously Byron's lines that:
1.-THE world is a bundle of hly,
Mankind are the asses who pull,
Each tugs in different way
But the greatest of ALI John Bull"
They chose to initiate on a mos
magnificent scale the folly of the tw'
travellers in one of Esop's fables VIII,
discovered paternal parent of mule
and whilst they fought, each claim
ing to have seen him first, the paren
) ran away and neither possessed him
The goodi', goodies, the Seth Lows
the AnthUny CONS; Ucns and the DR.
Parkhursts must now take their med
icine for four long years at least
must see Sunday II holiday instead 0
a holy day. "Expeneucc is dea
school but fools will learn in n
other"
In the same Press are two commu
nications from Vermonters about th
present pension racket-quite sensl
BILE both for the most part. One
; from Manchester where a costly an
magnificent soldiers monument
being erected that will "record VIII
rest below" and where
: When spring with dewy fingers cold,
j., Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall dress II sweeter sod,
Than fancy's feet have ever trod."
Under this "sweeter sod we CUES
q this comrade expects to rest and o
that monument bis name will be fash
toned by the hand of the artist. Ie
he "lhinks it all wrong that q wldo'
- that ought to be wearing short dresse
:, gets a pension" That widow wa
somebody's darling and that some
body was soldier and probably ha
little or nothing to leave her but hi
pension. The Goulds and Wander
b bits don't follow the stars and stiip2
It to the lannon's business end, Tha
pension he wiIled her and his wi
e should be probated just as rightfulI
as that of the civilian "to the girl VIII
ought to be wearing short dresses
Till there is a law forbldding Mi>se
to abandon their nurses for thel
beaux let us accord them their right
in their bereavement with joy and NJ
with grief just as we would if the
were old wrinkled beldams. Wer
we a pensioner we shonld join tn
"bi,ouac of the dead" with the great
t est reluctance if we knew the nectar
ed sweet young bud we had char ge
from Miss to Madam would be rob
. bed of her pension because forsoot
S she wore too longitudinal dresses pre-
maturely.