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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07

1t was in the Wilderness on the
morning Of the first fateful battle
May 4, 1864. Gen. Grants strong force
never wore more determined, inscrut-
able look. The army Of Gen. Lee was
drawn up and impatient for conflict.
A slight picket FIRE was heard drop
ping along the edges Of the serried
lines. With that calm, imperturbable
manner which always distinguished
Gen. Grant In a great crisis, he turned
TO one of his aids and said: as His
torian Badeau present. HE is gen.
eral," was the prompt reply. Then"
said the great warrior. -let the battle
proceed" And II proceeded. --Ne,o
York World.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07
RETURNED TO HAUNT. HER
a Suicidal Lover FuIflis His Ante
Norton Threat.

A man named John Bcal committed sui
eide mt waukon, Iowa, last week because a
widow OF that town refused TO marry him.
Before doing 20 he said he would return to
earth and hunt the object OF his affections.
Since his death the residence OF tho obdu-
rate lady has been subjected TO mighty vista
tations OF strange character. Unnatural
lights are seen and weird sounds heard In the
mansion, and it Is the general belief that tho
ghost Of the unhappy suicide Is fulfilling its
ante-mortem threat. The town Is greatly
excited over the matter.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07
DEACON WHITE DEAD.
The Founder OF the Republican Party
Breathes HIS Last nc sewickiey,
Penn.ylyanfn.

Hon. DAVID N. White, formerly editor Of
The Pittsburgh Gazette and the founder OF
the Republican party, died at his home at
sewicklcy, Pa, at LAS o'clock sunday
morning. The deceased was 81 years Of age.
.Dcacon' white, rs he was familiarly
known, was born In Wareham, Plymouth
county, Mass, August ~. 1900. In 1871 he
came 20 Pittsburgh and purchased The
Gazette. He was an Incorporating op-
poncnt Of slavery, and IN 1865 published a
call for a county convention 70 form new
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07

cross the line to obtain II. A crowd
gathered. examined and tested the
merits Of the knife. Finally an officer
threw II back, wrapped with large
piece of tobacco, In paper containing
the following note: "Fricnd Ydnk:
The knife is good one, but we are
not allowed 10 trade. However, you
are welcome to this piece of tobacco
Yours, Soidier."-The Argonaut.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07

nj MA1. n. " NihruNs
The soul In thy prophetic eyes that shonc.
Lighting thy grandy rugged earnest face.
Lifted thee mp 20 far above thy race
That measure OF thy greatness l. unknown.
The prophet stood alone upon the height;
The murmurmg people In the vale below
Saw but the lightning's fash. they could not
know
The vision God unrolled before his sight.
Thus Lincoln then on Freedoms mountain stood,
And saw beyond the bitter woe and shame
nation free In truth as we'll ns name
Stretch from Atlantic TO Paclhcs Hood.
And coming generations yet Will see
The soul divine that lived and wrought In thee
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07

jeff Davis has hard luck. Even
his picture, which was displayed
20 excite the enthusiasm Of the
survivors of the lost cause in
the Mississippi Senate, failed to induce
the members to carry bill appropriat-
ing $4,000 for monument 10 Con-
federate soldiers. They coldly decided
not to spend this coin, and we think
they did well. The State Is poor and
needs all its money to pay Its just
debts. San Francisco Chronicle.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07
A FITTING TRIBUTE.
I'm Memory or rev. George q. Had.
dock.

A memorial in honor Of the Rev. George
G. Haddock, who was murdered Aug. 3,
1885, was unveiled Tuesday night at the
First Methodist Church, Sioux City, Ia. In
the presence OF an immense audience. Adj
dresses were made by ministers and others
who were associated with Dr. Haddock In
temperance work, In which he lost his life.
The Rev. DIR. Knox mrde careful compar-
son showing that there Is not single saloon
open In Sioux City to-day, whereas there
were nearly 100 saloons open the night OF the
assassination.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07

The Governor General OF Canada has Is
sued notice TO citizens OF British Columbia
who 20 ON sealing expeditions 10 "refrain
from asserting their rights by force, and
from taking on board arms and ammunition
In excess Of the usual requiremcnts,v lest
serious complications arise.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07

IL Is stated that the Dominion government
will buy back from the Canadian Pacific
Railway 7,000,00 acres Of land for ei0.500,-
900 In ready cash, for which sum the CON-
pany agrees 10 a cancellation OF It's monopoly
Ia fhe Northwest
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-04-07
VETERANS CORNER.
Politeness in War Times Gen. Wilder
Relates the Incident Of His
Surrender.

"let the Battle Proceed" and Other
Good Stories--G. A. r. Notes
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
Mankind's Mistakes.

1t is a mistake to labor when you are not
in fit condition to do so.
To think that the more person eats the
healthier he will become.
To go to bed at midnight and rise at day.
break and imagine that every hour taken
from sleep is an hour gained
To imagine that if little work or exer-
else is good, violent or prolonged exercise
is better
To conclude shat the smallest room in
the house is large enough to sleep in.
To eat as if you only had minute to
finish meal in, or to eat without an ap-
petite, or continue after it has been salts
fled merely to satisfy the taste.
To believe that children can DO as much
work as grown people, and that the more
hours they study the more they learn
To imagine that whatever remedy causes
one to feel Immediately better (as alcoholic
stimulants) is good for the system without
regard to the after effects.
To Ia Ike off proper clothing out Of season,
simply because you have become heated.
To sleep exposed to a direct draught in
any season.
To think that any nostrum or patent
medicine is a specific for all the diseases
flesh is heir to.-Inder.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
Can He Swim?

Can your boy swim? No? Then do
not trust him in any sort of boat until he
has learned the art, and feels as much at
home upon the water as upon dry land.
You might just as we'll send him ont into
a crowded street before he had learned to
walk. He might possibly creep along all
right, and reach home alive, or somebody
might pick him up and care for him, but
the chances would not be in his favor. So
in boating, the boy who cannot swim may
get along very comfortably for while, and
not suffer from this defect in his education,
but the time will assuredly come when he
will have cause to bitterly regret it. 1t is
one of the simplest things in the world,
too, and can be learned in three or four in
diligently directed lessons, such as can be
had in any city swimming school, or from
the experts in any country village. By all
means talk swim to your boy before you
talk boat, and stipulate as one of the con-
ditions of his having a boat that he shall
first be able to swim quarter of mile
without resting.-Harper'S Young People.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

into favor, principally through the re-
ported cures occurring in the practice OF
Professor John Clay, obstetric surgeon to
the Queens Hospital Birmingham, Eng
land. In these reports are included cases
OF cancer of the uterus, rectum and skin.
At the same time trial of the remedy at
the London Cancer Hospital has been
made, with conflicting results. Dr. Daniel
Lewis, surgeon to the New York Skin and
Cancer Hospital, reports hopefully of the
remedy, but in communication to the
New York Medical Journal says that he
has been using it in too limited a number
Of cases to decide as to lis curative prop
critics. Chan turpentine is the product of
a tree, the Pistdcia terebinthus, which grows
on the Island of Scio, in the Mediterra-
mean. The tnrpentine, as it comes to this
country, is soft solid, becoming brittle
when exposed to the air. 1t has an agree
able odor, somewhat like that of turpen-
tine, and very little taste The remedy is
given in the form of an emulsion with
of acacia, solusion of the tur-
pentine having first been made with sui
phuric ether.-.Scieaee.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
SAUTCH GIRLS IN INDIA.
A Woman Who Repeated Scores o
PRAYERS All DaY LONG,

Prayers All Day Long.
These damsels, our guide explained,
were the celebrated Nautch or dancing
girls of India. They formed themselves
into 4 group, taking positions like those in
a common quadrille, the musician (?) in
the center, and the dancing commenced.
They were all below the age OF 20, SPLEEN
didly formed and arrayed in long, flowing
robes of high colors. All wore around
their arms and lower limbs one-fourth
silver and brass rings, not less than eight
on each leg, causing the movements of
their bodies to be accompanied by tinkling
sounds, as if it were sleighing party.
They performed an allegorical representa-
ton Of a Hindoo courtship and subsequent
marriage with all the incidents and acct
dents customary among people wounded
by Cupid's arrow.
The serpent-like elasticity of body which
allows these women to float, as it seems,
across the floor, and the graceful abandon
with which they enter the pantomimic
delineation of the play they are perform
ing must be seen to be appreciated, and
language appears cold in a description.
One of them wore around her neck
rosary, and as it is supposed that women of
tlilS CtdSS are ueNOlu Vi all the pure attrl-
buteS that distinguish the gentler sex in
all portions of the globe, to a greater or
lesser degree, it caused wonderment among
the foreign spectators, and Investigation
became necessary. The rosary spoken of
consisted of over 100 small wooden beads
the size of collar-button, were made of
the holy basil, low plant sacred to Sta,
the wife of Rama.
We were told that this woman repeated
scores of prayers at morning, noon and
evening, never less than twenty-five at any
one time, i'll a chanting, monotonous tone,
which became shrill and piercing at the
end OF each prayer. The offer of five
golden dollars for the article whose in
trinsic value was not more than 90 cents.
was scornfully refused, and the old bag
who supplied the music intimated that
sure destruction would befall the band of
dancers if the rosary was sold, lost or
stolen. This emblem of devotion was be-
lieved to contain the only redeemip2
quality which would entitle the castaway
females claim to the protection of the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
PLASTER CASTS OF FAIR FACES.
The Latest Feminine Fad for Summer
Souvenirs.

Some few of the summer girls before
gathering their butterfly raiment about
them for flight left souvenirs of them
selves with the business-tied young men
who remain in the city. These souvenirs
were neither more nor less than plaster
casts Of their pretty faces, and as the
fashion in which these casts are obtained
Is by no means a pleasant one, they must
be judged to have displayed heroism wor-
thy Of a better cause. A cast, thew argue.
has no more significance than photo
graph, while it is a much newer method of
giving token of ones regard The dam
sci who designs to honor any friend after
this mode sends for one of those swarthy.
understood Italian modelers who abound
in certain quarters down town. The little
man attends in the lady's boudoir and a
studio is extemporized.
This means that some convenient sister
or girl friend holds her hand and Gains
her rising terrors while the victim is laid
back in a reclining chair or extended on a
table. The hair is snooded up carefully
and covered, that no touch of plaster may
| come near it. Then some variety of sweet
| OIL Is rubbed upon the skin, tubes of one
| description or another are put in the nos
trils and the mixture is poured on. 1t
| does not take many minutes for it to set
nor many more for it to be got off, discov-
ering the summer girl very commonly in a
state bordering on hysteria, and as glad to
be released as if she were jumping from a
dentists clutches. There is no real dis
comfort attending the operation, the oil
preventing any adhesion to the skin andthe
castee soon RECEIVERS sufficiently to describe
the whole thing as real fun" and to dis
cuss the number of copies of her counte-
nance she will have made from the mold.
| philadelphia Press.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
Beautifully Proportioned.

Ii any woman wishes to know whether
she is perfect specimen of her sex she
has only to apply the rules laid down for
ascertaining the fact and figure on the re-
suits. First, as to hight tastes differ, but
the Medicean Venus is 5 feet 5 inches in
hight, and this is held by many sculptors
and artists to be the most admirable sta
ture for woman. For woman of feet
. l3S pounds is the proper weight, and if
she be well formed she can stand another
10 pounds without greatly showing it
When her arms are extended she should
measure from tip Of middle finger to tip of
middle finger just feet 3, exactly her own
hight. The length of her hand should be lust
tenth of that, and her foot just seventh,
aud the diameter of her chest a fifth. From
her thighs to the ground she should meas
ure just what she measures from the thighs
to the top of the head. The knee should
come exactly midway between the thigh
and heel. The distance from the elbow
to the middle finger should be the same as
the distance from the elbow to the middle
of the chest. From the top of the head to
the chin should be lust the length of the
foot, and there should he the same distance
oeIMeeH INC CiliH anu the armpltS. A
woman of this height should measure "a
inches about the waist and 81 inches about
the bust, if measured from under the arms,
and 43 if over them. The upper arm
should measure IS inches and the wrist g..
The calf of the leg should measure 14J
inches, the thigh % and the ankle s.
There is another system of measurements
which says that the distance twice around
the thumb should go once around the wrist;
twice around the wrist once around the
throat; twice around the throat once
around the waist, and so on; but the first
are the measures used by sculptors, who
have gained them by measurements of the
Greek statues.-I0ronto Globe.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18

gods when their race Of life had been run.
The iiome OF the dancers was at Benares,
and they were at Bombay at the special de-
sire OF a high English official who had
given a company Of European nohlemen,
then in the city, an opportunity to see the
Nautch dancers, and we considered our
selves very fortunate In being able to view
their peculiar ara, the more so as it was
claimed that they were the most proficient
in India, and enjoyed a celebrity in that
country equal to the fame of any renowned
dancer in Europe
BY the price charged for the perform
ance we came TO the conclusion that
the feet CT the Nautsh girls are more
conducive to the enlargement of a
bank account than the brain of a bank
clerk, as the latter individual was
only paid sixty rupees $500 a month.
Having received an invitation to picnic
at Elephanta Island, the place where the
most celebrated cave in existence is stu
ated, we returned to our mosauito-infested
rooms to dream of the days excitement
Albert De Lear IN Philadelphia Press.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
Veterans.

1t will not do for our Democratic friends
to treat with levity or contempt the ''old
Tippecanoe voters who are showing such
yigor aud zeal in announcing their deter
mination to vote for the General Harrison
of to-day. They are q formidable legion OF
active veterans, who illustrate stbe sur
vival of the 6ttest,' in politics. Here is
the Iowa State Register, of last Sunday,
which publishes a list of these old-time
Wings, now living in Iowa, who voted for
William Henry Harrison in 1910, and who
will vote for Benjamin Harrison next No
vember, and there are nearly 900 of the e
well-preserged and consistent citizens thus
enrolled. Our Iowa contemporary gives
the full name and the residence of each Of
the members of this new Legion of
Honor" whose ages range from SO to 81,
two of them having voted for John Quincy
Adams in 1924. We may add that the list
is constantly growing.
Out in Lockport, in this State, there is 4
remarkable family, consisting of seven
brothers by the name of Freeman, whose
ages range from seventy-one to eighty-five,
who, with their father, all voted for Harri-
son in 1910, and all the sons propose to
vote for Harrison in 1888. Even the oldest
of these survivors of the campaign of 1910,
at eighty-five, is said to be remarkable for
physical condition.
The fight of 1910 was fight for Harrison
and protection. 1t was a contest, on the
Wing side, that appealed to enlightened
patriotism, good political morality and
sound common sense. 1t also called out
all the enthusiasm, romance, fun and
poetry of that marvellous campaign. Hence
the long lives of the Harrison veterans of
1910. The men who united good American
principles with common sense, and whose
generous aud patriotic sentiments and in
stincts found vent in songs and in tremend-
Gus and picturesque demonstrations, were
the sort of men to survive all their
contemporaries and to enjoy vigorous and
risky old age. The dull witted, the apa-
thetic, the coarse grained, the Unconditional,
the peryerse and the wicked OF that era
did not live out half their days, for the
most part.-Net0 York Nail and Express
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
Protection Against Moths

What do | do for moths?" said me-
thodical Mrs. Murray, "Why, never have
to do anything for them. am never
troubled with them"
''Oh," said her friend, 81 suppose you
have cedar closets, and all that sort of
thing"
mo, indeed, haven't anything of the
sort; but | do have large trunk lined
with tar paper. In this, as soon as the
family are done with winter fannels, coats,
and clothing of various kinds, pack my
furs and winter clothes in camphor.
prefer it to snuff, tobacco, or red pepper
There is nothing disagreeable about cam
phor to the human olfactories, and moths
do not seek it any more eagerly than they
do the other preventives. A fur cloak, or
other especially valuable garment, | put
in linen pillow-case, after putting cam
phor among the folds. This l tie, and
shut, wrap in large newspapers, and then
inelose the whole in tight pasteboard
box, or in drawer that need not I've mo-
Tested during the summer"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
A RACE FOR A RIBBON.
The Freak of Summer Girl at the Sea-
hore

An afternoon at Rockaway revealed
fresh possibilities of the summer girl. She
was Idly pouring sand from one hand to
another, lying in burrow on the beach
under the shelter of parasol overgrown
with ribbons She wore a gown of some
soft, thin, silky, white stuff, tied at the
waist with yellow girdle. On either side
was young man in knickerbockers and
blazer. A third young man lay at her
feet. The girl was content, but the young
men were inclined to wish each that the
Others were not there. One of them snip
ped a bunch of ribbons from the futtering
parasol, and chickering's over the possession
OF the trophy assumed the small animation
possible on a lazy August afternoon.
Snatching her ribbons from the last pos
SCISSORS hand, the summer girl pinned
them to her cap and jumped to her feet.
Catching's havings," she laughed down
at her recumbent admirers, and ran for the
water. They were after her in an instant,
but before they wet their feet in the edge
OF the first wave she was we'll out beyond
the line of breakers, swimming with
splendid, vigorous stroke. 1t was impossi-
BILE to resist such challenge, and in they
plunged, blazers, knickerbOckers and ali.
She turned her head to look at her pur-
suers, and the bright ribbons nodded them
saucy defiance from her head. On she
went, swiftly and powerfully, and after her
plunged the three young men. Two of
them proved on the instant that they were
no match for the girl. A stern chase was
too long a chase for them, and they
emerged on the beach, dripping objects in
yellow and white stripes, disconsOlate
blazers. The third swimmer gained on the
girl. She was agile in abiding him in the
water, turning this way and that and lead
ing him merry chase, but a reach of
long arm finally captured the ribbons, and
they swan back together to shore. The
summer girls white gown shed the water
like ducks feathers. She was prettier
than ever with the salt water curling her
hair in little rings. She ran up and down
the beach once or twice, shook herself out
and smiled on the young men. Two of
them were starting for dry clothes, but the
third sat down in the sand with the sum-
mer girl again under the beribboned para
sol.-Ne1p York Letter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
Htnts for Modest Young Men.

If the young man of to-day really wants
to grow up where his talents are best APP
preciated, he should not go West. No, in
deed, much-Dearer-to-home place needs
him more. He should go to the seashore.
There is where the sex is held in its proper
esteem. 1t is said of one house that it
suddenly reached supreme hight of pros
perity by the circulation of rumor that
twenty-five rowing and bathing college
men were spending their vacation there
The report wasn't true, but meantime lots
of charming girls had engaged board and
they couldn't go back on their contracts.
At hop the other night the dancing
master introduced quadrille of all girls
The girls who took the part usually danced
by men were distinguished by wearing
Tom O'Shanter caps with two feathers in
the 'front.' A variation was introduced in
the dance called the Sister Anne figure.
The girls at given signal stood still, and
shading their eyes with their hands seemed
to peer into the distance, while the orches-
ira shouted, "Ohl Sister Anne. Sister
Anne, do you see man." The big
trombone answered sadly, 3boom-boom-
bahp' and the dance, with a shout OF
laughter, went on.-N. Y. Nail
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
She snsulte a the Doctor.

Mother" Why doesn't DR.. Brown come
to see you now, Carrie p
Daughter" can't tell, ma He came
three nights week up to three weeks ago.
Then he suddenly stopped coming"
Mother" Did you say anything to him
that could offend him p"
Daughter-"No. On the contrary, Twas
more tender and afiectionate on the night
of his last CALI than had ever been before.
In fact, called him duck"
Mother lin harsh, grating voice)-@
what?"
Daughter duck"
Mother" I'm not surprised that he
hasn't called. My child, when you are re-
ceiving the attention of physician you
can not be too careful in the selection. OF
terms of endearment Remember that
there is an intimate relation betTeen q
duck and quack."
The daughter realized it and bowed her
head and wept.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
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Concerning Cancers.

The fatal result which almost inevita-
bly, attends cancer has caused investigators
to search with unremitting zeal for a
specific. The search is now prosecuted
with more hopefulness than ever, by
reason of the belief in many minds that
cancer is a specific disease depending on
germ for its causatIon. One of the RENE
dies from which much was expected was
Chan turpentine Although this has had
its advocates in the past, it has never sus-
tanned very high place IN the profession
generally. Recently it has again come