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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28
DORSET VALLEY

Death and destruction seem to be
let loose in central Europe. More
cruel warfare than even old Bible
times chronicles is raging. Killing
by all foul means, not only sweep
ing the face of the earth by shot
and shell, but by poisonous gases,
liquid fire and binding acids, but
the modern savage barbarian cuts
the threats of wounded men, dig out
their eyes, cut off their hands, feet
and ears, while yet alive, burn,
starve and torture in all ways the
enemy once they get a chance. And
they claim to be civilized; they are
all Christians; they all worship the
same God and all claim to be human
beings. And America is busy
making shot and shell, guns and ap-
paratus to help carry on this hell on
earth, for the dollars there are in it.
Yet if one of these American-made
torpedoes, fired from submarine,
hits a foreign ship and sinks it, with
a Dago-born, AmeriCan-made-ov over
foreigner, with a hyphen in his
name, there is a hollo long and
loud because a funEed over Dago
has been fool enough to ship on a
British ship when he knew he was
1iqbie to be sunk, and after all the
warnings to keep off said ship has
been given for the last six months,
and probably he was hired to go
on said ship by Bully John Bull,
so as to make the Eagle scream if
the ship was sunk. And now Great
Britain is going to get out her big
ships and make a tight blockade of
all the German ports; there are only
few of these ports and British ships
will be close together SO no neutral
ship can get there, But listen and
you will hear the faint rumble of
German submarines as they torpedo
said blockading ship. and see them
keel over and go down. One sub
marine can sink four or five a day
and Germany has hundreds of them.
How long will the big ships last
when they get after them. And
yet the suckers who get rich build
ing worthless dreadnoughs for the
u. S. are crazy to build whole lot
of them for some foreign power to
sink. Thirty submarines can be
built for the price of one big dread
nought, and any one of said subma
rines can sink a dreadnought every
week i'll the year if it gets a chance.
But the suckers won't get rich if
they make only submarines be-
cause they are too cheap, and the
y. S. cannot be held up for enough |
millions to make it worth while. |
The foreigners are whooping it up
to put the U. S. as deep i'll debt as
are European nations But bark
I hear that Congress is part human
and rather Sc. our country flowing
with milk and honey than covered
with the bones of our young men.
We are in no danger OF invasion the
"Killkenny CATS in Europe will
eat each other all up and there will
be nothing left to invade us with.
1t is the big desperate fully armed
and full of fire water that is dan
gerous, not him that has been shot
full of holes, blind, his legs and
arms gone and dead broke. he can't
hurt you in that condition and
Europe is that way now.
ST CLONE.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28
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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28

FOR SALE = Sherman girls place
just above Peru village, with hay and
stock if desired House and barn newly
painted. Large part can remain upon
mortgage. Six good COWS. NJ. +.
HalgOod. If
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28

MAIL YOUR SAFETY RAZOR
BLADES.-Can sharpen good as new,
at less than price. Al Wood, 80 Main
St., Brattleboro, vt, 1-tf
Single edge, 25c. doz
Double g 35c
Durham Duplex, soc. &"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28

FOR SALE-Pure bred Holstein bull
calves and bulls ready for service, from
lib. two-year- olds to 26 lb. cow Sired
by Spring Farm Oriskany Pontiac,
1903, purchased by Mr. Haven from
Francis M Jones, of Clinton, n. Y.
Lee S. Haven, South Londonderry, Vt.
9-3p
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28

WANTED = Man and wife for gen
eaIl work on farm. Couple without
children preferred. Apply to F. A.
Boynton, Simonsville, Vt. 7-tf
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28

TO LET-Tenement of seven rooms;
two acres land; barn; double parlors;
hardwood floor dining room i all in
good condition. For terms and partica-
lars apply Box 1, Londonderry, Vt. 9-1u
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28

NOTICE = Will take calves next
Monday. 5 1-2c 10 for fat hogs. Dry
stove wood, $500 per cord. O. D.
Parker.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28

Our forests now cover $4,000 900
acres, or about one-fourth the area of
the country.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1916-01-28
Business Notices

FOR SALE Pair good, heavy Work
E. E. Rowley. S-3p
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
Had Her Safe.

At the amateur operate perform
ance of "The Mlstletoe Bough"-in
which, as you remember, the heroine
hides in a cellar chest and is smoth-
cred to death-the lady who played
this part was, vOcally, a terrible fias-
co. Nevertheless, they struggled
along until the scene where she
climbed into the box-a real prop
erty" kindly loaned for tile occasion
by John Smith, president of the local
safe-deposlt company. The lid snapped
down with a click that was only too
realistic.
A frightened stage manager rushed
out to where the owner Of the box
sat and whispered:
"Gimme the key! The lid Of your
blooming box has sprung locked"
SIS that woman going to sing any
more"
"Sure, she comes in as ghost in
the next act and sings two songs"
"That settles It," muttered old John
Smith. "She can just stay there"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
SYNOPSIS.

". Automobile Of Miss Dorothy Upton and
friend, Mrs.gFane, breaks down at New
I Mexico border patrol camp, commanded
, by LieutenantSsKyn aston. The two wom-
en- are on way to mine OF Miss Upton's
father, located q few miles across the
Mexican border Kynaston leaves women
at his camp wirlle he goes with detail
to investigate report OF villa gun runners.
Villa troops drive small force Of Car
ransa across border line and they surren-
der to Kynaston. Dorothy and Mrs. Fame
still at camp when .Kynaston returns with
prisoners. Blind Mexican priest appears
In camp and claims sinterned Mexicans
have in the spoils brought across the line
a wonderful emerald bell stolen from a
shrine by Zapata and taken from him by
CarranEa troops. Priest Is searching for
the emerald in order to return It to the
shrine. Kynaston 1nds Jewel and reports
to department headquarters. Major Up
dyke appears from headquarters to take
charge OF valuables captured. Priest
and emerald bell disappear. Kynaston
slips across border with one man to aid
Upton family surrounded by Villistas.
The water supply runs short. The defen-
ders kill some Of their besiegers, among
them an important officer. Mexicans go
mad. They demand sacrifice of man who
killed officer Both Upton and Kynaston
had fired at him. so they play poker game
to decide which shall surrender and thus
save lives Of others besieged. Kynaston
loses and prepares to offer himself to
enemy.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

which of US shot the man. Anyway
they promised us immunity II the man
who killed their leader should give
himself up to trial by court-martial-''
Which means DEATH" interjected
Dorothy scornfully.
And as we could not tell which OF
us-he or lit was who did the kill
ing, we played hand Of poker to
decide. That was what we were doing
when you came.in."
"Gambled away life!" calculated
the Mortified girl
And you mean that this"-she
picked up the cards lying on the table
this was the price of his life?"
The tears were running down her
cheeks like rain.
"And you had What did you
have, father?y
Three jacks-and-"
The old miner never finished his
sentence
He started back from the table as II
coiled rattlesnake lay within foot
Of his face; for his daughter had
dropped the hand that had saved his
life and had turned up the hand that
Kynaston had thrown so scornfully
in the middle Of the table, disclosing
to his Mortified eyes-four mines!
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
Investluate the Onion.

The homely onion has been the sub
ject of an inquiry by a British COM
mittee whose duty 1t was to go into
the matter Of its high cost. The re-
port of the committee reveals the fact
that the present high rate Of the onion
Is due to the stoppage of import from
Holland and Belgium and tVthe dimln-
lshed import from Egypt and Spain!
1t Is pointed out that onions can be
grown in England, and tOtwoman gar
deners of even quite amateur expert
ence the contemplatiye cult Of the
onion is to be recommended as real
and useful war work.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

Give MY love to-youf- daughter"
Upton frankly choked az he watched
the younger man swing OF down the
hill.
Steadily Kynaston tramped down
across the dead olive-green Of the
parched alfalfa patch, skirted the dead
brown of the sugar cane, paused to
wave his hand to the old miner, and
then-disappeared from view among
the cottonwoods.
Upton, signing, turned back to the
house. He tramped through the great
room amid q great silence. Men
turned from their loopholes. scanned
his face, and furtively fell to rubbing
spotless rifie-bolts with their shirt
sleeves. They saw in his face such
grief as Is abo q mere words, and
after the manner of the southwest, re-
spe tied 1t.
Dorothy and Mrs. Fame he found In
the back room. They knew, or sus
pected. Mrs. Fame was sitting in a
chair at the head Of the table, her face
in her hands, frankly weeping, with
her arms spread upon the table, her
beautiful figure racked with sobs.
Dorothy, mixture Of fire and Ice
stood by the window, which was closed
and barred, confronting Mr.. Wilkes
who fairly cringed before the concen
trated fury in her eyes.
Il say it was shame-a shame!
she cried. What If he did kill him
Did they not try to kill him first. and
have they not stolen first from US, and
for two days now tried to kill US all
Did he not peril his life to get US wa
ter? Did he not cross the line and
risk his life and, more than his life
his reputation as soldier to help us
What must he think of US? TIC
have US accept such a sacrifice from
him. Oh, father, cannot stand it!
Marion, say something"
But Marion was long past saying
anything that could be of even the
smallest comfort. 1t was Mr.. Upton
who said slowly:
1--WE did the best we could, daugh
ter. We are but human, after all
Neither Kynaston nor l were sure
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
CHAPTER Vl-continued.

Well, it would not take long. 1t
would be over in twenty-four hours,
unless-a horrible thought came to
him-those men below, whose prison
er he would be in two hours, were
savages in the rough; savages with
the blood-lust fairly reused and in
famed by defeat.
He had heard tales of torture among
the prisoners that he had seen at No
gales-horrible tales!
The thought of having to go with
out even saying farewell to Dorothy
unnerved him for moment, but he
realized his own limitations, and he
knew that In that last moment he
would betray himself. So down he sat
at the table and wrote two short
notes; one to his colonel, in which he
explained the whole affair, and the 9TH
er to the sister that lived in q quiet
little Maryland town among the placid
back eddies of the eastern shore.
Kynaston, his notes written, filled
the clip of the automatic and slipped
it into his bootleg, where its fat frame
would be most likely to lie undetected.
A moment later Upton came into
the room! His face was gray with
suppressed feeling and his gaunt frame
showed unmistakable suffering. In the
few minutes that had passed since
Kynaston had left him the whole trag-
edy of the next twenty-four hours had
been brought home to him.
Il can't let you go, boy" he said
hoarsely. I'VE had better take our
chance. Bring your men on over across
the border"
The appeal was almost overwhelm-
ing in its intensity.
Don't you know that 1t means your
life?"
Il know. But it means war II I
do; and, Upton, as God is my Judge,
l cannot start war that will involve
the country to save my own skin.
You see that, don't your"
Upton licked his dry lips.
Wu0u-Wnou- uO yO0 AhOoh W
leave?" he asked.
Right now"
Kynaston's face was pale.
Are the ladies in the back
room"
Yes. I'll go with you to the
door,"
The two men strolled listlessly to-
ward the door of the main room, where
the defenders stood eying them.
Frank puzzlement was written large
upon their faces as Upton unbarred
the door, letting Kynaston, out upon
the smooth four-hundred-yard stretch
of grass that spread from the door
step to the stream, grass that had
been laboriously planted by hand
through two generations.
Below them the land sloped away
to the east, riot of gold and dun,
pearl and opal, and that curious red
brown that one sees in the southwest
and nowhere else on earth.
Looking out before he shut the door
again, Upton saw, mile away, col.
umn of red dust swirl up to the anne
thystine sky and heard series of
long, joyous yells that cut the desert
silences like knife Yell after yell
broke out then firing, and then more
yailA
: -ThAt-n pc the arrival Of tine re-
endorsements they spoke Of" said KY
Daston. "J'm cd. old men. Adios!
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
unfinlshsd Product.

Four-year-Old Marjorie was sent by
her father to get the egg from nest
in a fence corner, where a certain hen
persisted In laying each day. To her
great establishment she found soft
shelled egg In the nest, and leaving 1t
she ran back to her father, exclalming,
breathlessly: 10, papa, didn't bring
the egg cause it isn't finished yeti
Cleveland Leader.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
CHAPTER WI.
A Contest Of Wits.

Dusk was slowly drawing down as
Kynaston left the house. Below him
in the camp Of the attackers excite
ment was rife. Serious as was his
predicament, he could not help specu-
lating on the cause of it. Anything.
even the most trivial thing, might turn
the scale in his favor, and he did not
mean to miss the slightest chance.
He know right well that, given the
chance, Upton would &c. his party out
and across the border to the place
where the cavalry had csmped Ha
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
ARMY OFFICER DISAPPEARS
so DOES PRICELESS GEN

There followed garbled account Of
the arrival Of the Emerald Bell in Ky
naston's camp. A still more garbled
account of how 1t came into northern
Mexico. The account Of the gallant
fight made by the prisoners he had
left in his camp told plainly enough
the source Of the story.
The article stated that, acting on in.
formation received from a Mexican
prisoner who had been outrageously
abused by the army officer who had
captured him, the Tarryville Argus
had dispatched a special correspond
ent to the camp OF the United States
troops.
There he found Major Updyke, who
with visible reluctance had substan-
tiated the story about the Jewel.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
The Difference.

"Thls poet speaks of the 'circumam-
blent air. What kind Of air Is thatT
"Oh. he means ordinary air. as dis
tingulshed from the air that Is agi-
tated by electric fans, patent systems
Of ventilation and thunderous appeals
for preparedness"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
The Effects Of Opiates.

NHAT INFANTS peculiarly susceptible opium
all which in
continued these
mbec mental pervson, craving for alcohol HE
diseases nacabe dyspepsia and lack staying
result Of dosing with pses narcotics 70 children 9s
IN infancy The rule physicians that children should
receive oaes the smallest doses for than day ct time and
only then IL unavoidable ;.t5st:
The administration of Anodynes Drops Ca Soothing sups and
dece and the druggist should not Be t. Children WHO are
Vllfuly with 90 TX,
i narcotics II the --H
siRnaur eof MI WHIT
Genuine CasOrs always bears the signature OftzX |E<H
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
MethodIst Women cave s27s, GOO.

The amount raised last year by the
WOman's Missionary society Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
for the work in the foreign field was
1918, 1920. The amount given during
the week Of prayer for the new work
in Japan was $13,751.71.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

kynaston lays his hand on
the little automatic pistol In HE
bootleg. He feels certain the
end has come, but fears that he
will be tortured by the savaoes
for hours or days before death
lie meted out to him. In hIs
place, would you shoot the gen.
eraI and others at the farcIeaI
court-martial and try to get,
away, or would you stay and
face torture, hoping the sacri:
flee would mean the safety Of
the besieeed AmerIcans7
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

Nothing puffs a woman up more
than to have seventeenth cousin sud-
denly become near-famOus.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
Speedy.

'Does that new watch of yours keep
good time"
"You bet It does There isn't clock
in town that can keep up with It,"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

Topics.

"There is nothing like the weather
as a topic Of conversation. III
+That remark" observed Senator
Sorghum, ''leads me to infer that you
have never concerned yourself much
about the Observation-Disclosures Star.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
CTo BE coNTINuED)
DAFT, rhouuht.

Never speak III Of - ison unless
you are sure of your fact; and, even
IL you could swear to 1t, ask yourself:
Why do make n kneWn1--LAyataE.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

A woman gets lot Of satisfaction
out Of he belief that other women
envy her.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

SOAP 10 STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with La Creole" Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.00.-Adv
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

Disappointing Movie.
1--WE seen it-'tain't no g06d."
"'E gets lung, don't 'e?'
"Yus, but they don't show yer that"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

Red Cross Ball Blue, made II America,
therefore the best, delights the housewife.
All GOOD grocera. Adv.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

Hohesty-is q good thing In cOnnec-
ton with insurance policies. 49,,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
Good Cause.

"What leaden color your hns-
band has, Mrs. Jones'"
"Yes'm; he's don got de plumbago,
mn'nm."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

-.'. .sN.
Holy Writ says there 10 no
greater love than the sacrifice
Of ones life to save anotheTs.
But In real life do you believe
that a man would deliberately
throw his life away In order to
save the life Of the father Of
the girl he Ioves-especlally
when the old father stood will
Ing and ready to enter the Val
ley Of the Shadow? You will
be much interested In Lieuten.
ant kynaston's problem, de-
soribed in this instaIIment.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

Every dreamer expects to accom-
plish wonders-when he wakes up.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06
It's the henpecked man who crows
loudest when he gets away from home.

"Why do you want to get q dlyOrceT'
Because I'm married"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-06

Give MY love to-your-daughter."
Upton frankly choked as he watched
the younger man swing OF down the
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1916-04-25

ments Of wood pulp from Norway
and Sweden, while Canada stopped
access to her vast resources some
time ago. The newspaper publisher
is, indeed, hard hit by war condi-
tions in many other items of sup
plies besides the basic one of pap
er stock. Practically everything
going into the manufacture of a
newspaper has increased in price
from 10 to so per cent.-inks, ow-
ing to the advance in the cost of
acids and dyes, from 800 to 5000
per cent; type. owing to the
higher cost of lead, tin and anti
the rubber and felt
blankets wrapped around the press
rollers add their quote to the in
creased "cost of living" of the
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1916-04-25
WHY YOU ARE PAYING
MORE FOR YOUR PRINTING

Only a few of the business men
of Mt. Sterling are kicking on the
advance price of their printing,
but all over the United States there
is tremendous howl. From pres
ent indications there is going to
be paper famine in this country.
For the past four months there
has been steady advance in the
price of paper and as we write
these lines it is still soaring. A
commodity even so indirectly relat-
ed to the demands of war as paper
is showing the prevailing tendencies
to such degree as seriously to
embarrass publishers. The higher
price of paper stock and the Difficult
ty of obtaining it at all in England
was chief factor in the discon-
tinuance in March of the London
Daily Standard, after a career of
sixty years, for considerable
portion of which it was the most
organ of the middle
classes in England. In America
the demand for paper has been in
creasing for six months as re-
suit of general business activity.
AT the same time, supplies used in
its manufacture have been de-
creased by war conditions, and in
some cases have almost been shut
off. The supply of old rags is
by the cutting off of the
from the European
and by the demand for
the making of guncotton. The
chemicals used in bleaching the
paper produced by sulphuric acid
and alum are being devoured by the
of explosives, while
of jute have fallen off
until the price is doubled. An EN-
bargo has been placed on ship
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1916-04-25
HUSBAND RESCUED
DESPAIR|NG wife
After Four Years Of Discouragins
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave
Up in Despair. Husband
Came to Rescue.

Catron, Ky.-ln an interesting lettef
from this place, Mrs. Bette Bullock
writes as follows: 81 suffered for foul
years, with womanly troubles, and during
this time, ! could only sit up for a little
while, and could not walk anywhere al
all. AT times, | would have severe pains
in my left side.
The doctor was calledin, and his treat
ment relieved me for while, but was
soon confined to my bed again. After
that, nothing seemed to do me any good
| had gotten so weak could not stand,
and ! gave up in despair.
At last, my husband got me bottle Of
Cardui, the woman's tonic, and | COM
menced taking it. From the very first
dose, could tell il was helping me.
can now walk two miles without its
firing me, and am doing my work."
II you are all run down from womanly
troubles, don't give up in despair. Try
Cardui, the woman's tonic. II has helped
more than a million women, in its so
years OF wonderful Success, and should
surely help you, too. Your druggist has
sold Cardui for years. He knows what
II will do. Ask him. He will recon-
mend 1t. Begin taking Cardui today.
Write 70: Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Ladies.
Advisory Dept. Chattanooga. Tenn, for Specici
Instructions your and +-page book, Hone
Treatment for Women" sent In plain wrapper. E66B