The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-08-29
DORSET VALLEY.


farm and has paid $500 a yeaf tax.
es to help support the state, county
and town. The other hid his ST.
900 in savings banks, paid no tax
es, and received 500 a year in in
terest, or $4,000 clear in twenty
years, and now has $4,000. The
farmer has paid in taxes So, 900; in
insurance $1,000; repairs on build
ings $1,000, making an outlay OF
So 900 on a $4,000 farm in twenty
years, and today his farm will bring
at auction $4,000. He has lost 49,
900 farming. His brother has made
81, 900 doing nothing but let his
tfioney glow. In fact this is Yer
mont equity. The tt,an who tries
to build Tip and IMPROVE the state
Must pay the taxes and the batiks,
tfii,ts, and do-nothings get the cold
cash.
81 Clones Remarks to Unsle Bbef,
Yes. 1 ali glad thcie Eber
wrote that more than a column let
ter, and as he does not materially
disagree with me in regard to my
letter of Aug. IS, have but little
to answer. Uncle Eber or any
body else knows that 1 roughly tell
the truth, perhaps too much of it.
Now Uncle Eber was school
marin" in his younger days and
writes with that exact correctness
which I cannot do. He is of the
intermediate class, good, honest,
conservative, and IL all the world
were as correct In life as he we
should iieed no criminal laws But
it is soihetiiiies necessary to Use
caustic Remedies to ctire bone spav-
ms, aid also soliciting besides soft
words to ctire social evils, and the
social evils that are slowly destroy
ing our old Yankee stock are real
and not likely to be effected by any
Of us. In my letter / told of some
and now will speak of more. AS
Uncle Eber says, we want to give
our children a better chance than
we had. but do we do it in bring
ng them up as we do? Will boy
be any better, happier, or better
,itizen not to know how to milk a
COW, hoe a garden, cut wood, or
shave himself, or do any kind of
-eal work9 Will a girl hiake atiy
better wife because she don't kt1ow
low to cook, sew, metid, take care
If milk or even wash dishesl No,
| thousand times no. 1.-The devils
workshop is the idle PERSONS
,rain'' and Uncle Eber knows it.
Yet nine-tenths of the boys and
,irls today who get married dom t
know enough about keeping house
o signify Anything; and that their
are few and far apart is ITO
letriment to the welfare Of future
This twefitieth cent?
y calls for progressive active me
,hanical brains, men and women
who know something, and can do
besides look pleasant and
1rool, yawn, shipper, whine, and
wear ruffles and laces for mother to
wash and iron.
l know of three brothers who
went through a practical mechani-
al school who now, at thirty years
Did or about are earning six thou
sand dollars a year each. I also
know more than twenty men of
ike age who didn't get greasy and
smell oily, but took classical courses,
who can't earn $500 year and
some are tramps. l know several
girls who earn from $500 to $500 a
year and board as cooks, housekeep-
RS, etc., because they know how to
work, and dozens of others who
lon't know how to do much of any
hing sitting around chewing gum
ind wanting to get married.
Which ore amounts to the most?
On every hillside stand old homes
" deserted farms, the children gone
o cities and towns; gone there with
,ut any practical trade, gone there
O look for job, and you know the
esult. The lucky ones, one i'll
hundred, partially succeed; the 9th
RS have records in divorce courts or
worse. Once i'll a while one comes
Jack married, rich or we'll to do, or
IS a successful merchant, but sell
lom. The others-well, l Won t
describe them. You all know of
many utter failures due to lack of
knowledge, to lack of any practi-
al calling; but proud, foolish, cas-
ly led astray by stylish profigates
1utter like a miller for a while
lround the flame of fashion, sin and
oily and sink out of sight or go
pack home a useless wreck. Yes,
give the children trade and plenty
If honest work.
ST Clone.
EAST JAMAICA.