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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-25
They All Grew Weary.

Bll Nye's humor flags little since
the bi zzard. sooner or later most OF
the newspaper humorlsts play out.
Docsiicks. the Fiat Contributor. 1"
Mark Twain. ''Peck's Bad Boy" all
had their hoy day OF mirth and their
decline. IL Is all right. Tho public
will always find somebody to laugh at
Atlanta Constitution.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-25
The Hide From Winchester as Mar
rated by the Poet Read.

rateO Dy tut Iort Atau.
Up from the south at break OF day.
bringing TO Winchester fre-h dlsmay.
The affr!ghtcd air with a shuddcr bore,
The terrible grumble, ard rumble, anc roar,
Telling the battle was on once more,
And sheridan twenty miles away.
And wider still those pillows OF war
Thundered along the horizons bar,
And londer yet into Winchester rolled
The roar 81 that red sea uncontrolled,
Making the blood OF the listener cold
A. he thought OF the stake In that fiery
With sheridan twenty miles away.
hut there's n road from Winchester town,
A good lfoad Highway leading down;
And there, thro the flash OF the morning
light
A stccd ~ black as the stecds OF night
Was seen 10 pass ~ with eagle hight;
As II nc knew the terrible need,
lie stretched away with the utmost speed;
Hills rose and fclI--but his hear; was gay,
With sheridan fifteen miles away.
Under his spuinng feet the road
Like IN afrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape flowed away behind
Like an ocean lying before the wind;
And the stccd, like bark fed with fur
- mace ire.
swept on with his wild eyes full OF fire.
But 10 he - nearing his hearts desire,
lie l. snuaing the smoke OF the roaring
fray.
With sheridan only five miles away
The first that the general saw were the
groups
OF str7lgglerr. and then the rctrcating troops;
What was donc-what To do-a glance told
him 10th.
And, sinking his spurs, with a terrible oath
lie dashed down the lines mid storm OF
hurrahs,
And the wave OF retreat checked its course
there because
The sight OF the master compelled IL to
pause.
With foam and with dust the black charger
was gray;
BY the nash OF his eye and his nostril's
play
He seemed to the whole great army TO say:
IL have brought on Sheridan all the way
From Winchester town 20 save the day"
Hurrah hurrah for Sheridan.
Hurrah hurrah. for horse and man.
And when their statues arc placed on high
Under the dome OF the union sky
The American soldiers temple OF fame
There, with the generals glorious name
BE II said, IN letters both bold and bright:
.Ifcre Is the stccd that saved the day
BY carrying sheridan into the light
From Winchester. twenty miles awayw
Thomas buchanan Read.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-25

Convalcsccnt 10 physician): Il 500
our bill, doctor, calls for ten dollars
How much do you charge visitP"
Physicians; Two dollars"
Conyalescent: But you only called
three times
Physicians Five times. my friend.
three times for treatment and twice
for my money"
Convalescent; IL guess had better
hurry and pay up. ~ Epoch.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-08-25

Many new hats have crowns of
fancy straw in peculiar braldings, the
brims being OF plain braid and faced
with fancy straw In lattice-work pat.
terms.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01
No Baths for Him.

IT an going 70 stop bathing said friend
or mine, OF good habits, this morning. The
statement staggered me. for | knew be did
not belong to the great unwashed.n nor was
be IN any way retrosradiDs toward that
bathless class, the trarpps, He proceeded to
explain "IOu sac, my wife's brother is
young physician, and ny wife's father is an
Did physician Ny own father reads medical
works aud talks great deal about them i
near neighbor Of ours Is riNng young doc
tor, and through him a number Of medical
men have visited US. and we have met the
IL DIS also al his bousa Now In such an
atmosphere OF wisdom YOU would think
About everything / do from the tine
get up until l retire, IL tee way
Of estins. drinking. washing, rid
ing or bathing is dangerUusl say danger
o1s,' because that is tse term they, the DOC
tors, Use, an most alarmed about bathing
Ny father has found /; in the BOOKS that It q
dangerous 20 battle while WRITE My wife's
tather says II Is dangerous to battle while
cold OF chilly. Her brother asserts thai only
the strongest persons dare battle on arising
wItfou: first taxing food The same wise
yoans doctor says it IS dang croos end debi!-
itatsnS 20 battle just before retiring. They
I'll asrse t1at it IS dangerous TO jump into
water jUst after eating heartily. Nothing
has been said shout getting up IN the middle
OF the night and taxing Light lunch and
bath nor soout Leaving bustress IN the mid
de % the afternoon and soiug 70 8 bathing
house for an hour, OUT IS both these times
are very incoaveuiea. FOR me TO Indulge In
| have decided OF the only ether
not TO b&tne 81 Sls-Cn.cASo
ICxrI.si
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

"To-NTGuT YOU WILL LOSE YOUR LOVE"
VIII lead YOU, and out OF which you VIII be
conducted by the Angel of Truth. On your
twenty-ninth birthday YOU viii be the victim
of an accident which Will color Your whole
life. Be careful! Be CAREFUL But at last
out of sorrow viii come peace; out CT disap-
rcinunent, happiness"
At this moment two shadows fell on the
white sand OF the read. and in a second more
the figures that cast them paused beside the
palniSt and her subject One was Nettie
Bankard, young girl who earned her bread
by sewing AT the kouSes of the rich. The
other was Lindley Gusts. the irrepressible
brother OF Mss Ada. he was escorting Net
tie home after her DAYS work vas done. and
seemed rather proud o; MS mission. he was
her fe.ysar5 adp.irer, end often told his sister
that If Neuie Bankard had half p chance she
would throw her tAdal in the shade" IN the
matter OF beauty and popularity.
Clellsnd greeted her with genial courtesy.
The gypsy woman looked a. he- with de-
cided interest. TIE young man laughingly
told her that be had Just had his fortune told.
and that be was to De unlucky in love and
have a lot Of trouble on his twenty-ninth
birthday
He did not sac. but the star eyed gypsy
did. that the dreamy. vearning face of the
young girl grew rigid and white as she
listened
~ hen is your twpntv-ninth birthday. Mr.
ClellandT questioned Nettie. with the SIM
piclty OF a child. but with eyes full OF in
tense interest
"Whenl On, in few davs-on the Fourth
OF July was born a patriot, you see TIE
spirit Of Independence comes natural 10 ma.
The girl looked ~ him with an expression
IL 1nich there ySss srA.tar, .,x.,i.s es~-
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

On July Is, lT15, q standard was presented
to " ashington bearing she motto, AN Ap-
peal to Heaven" On Oct. 20. IT'S, plan
was suggested for q revolutionary flag
tsee Fig. 9, which was a white ground and q
tree in the middle, bearing the motto, AN
Appeal to Heaven 1t was the flag of Amer.
lean floating batteries. This was undoubo
eddy adopted by Massachusetts,, ard it Wa
used on American shipa
In September, l77s, Col MouitTfe, Il South
Carolina, had flag made which was blue
with white crescent in the corner See
Fig. 81 On June IS, l77s, this Has, With Tie
word Liberty inscribed upon it, was raised
on what is now Fort Moultrie See Fig. ~
This was the first American Gag displayed Ia
the south.
The colors Of tee American feet duly.
ITO were thirteen strips with rattlesnaks
across, bearing the motto: Don't tread On
me" See Fig. 81
In Paul Jones flag the stripes were alter.
nate red and blue. The rat:lesnake was
favorite device among The co,onistS. II III.
an old device used IN the French and Indisr
war was revived, being q rntstesnake cut into
parts See Fig. g. II was sdopeed By shs
newspapers 20 r~prese-. the separate colo
MES, and with motto: Unite or die"
On the sth Of February, f776, Col Gadsder
presented TO congress standard fer The ccrn-
rnznder Of the navy. Il was a yellow aaa
with q rsttlesDeke IN The mliiie coiled ready
70 strike. and the motto Don't tread OF
Ine.1 CSee Fig. ~ At the equpping Of
feet "a committee was appointed AZ Cam
bridge TO consider a Gag. The resuh
was the Union Jack coupled witt
;hiroeea stripes See Fig. e. This
was 81 tlse close Of TIE year I775. The aas
vas boosted On tas ID Of january g to
cambridge camp AZ The battle CT Lon
Isl-Ed- Aug. 2S, .77e, toe Britain captured
from small hend Ok Americans q red dam
ask flag, with the motto Liberty A. :hs
battle Of Whirs Pains. Oct .. 1775. Tia
Americans carried flag nth a crossed
sword ard staff, with hh~T-y cap on toe end
ot the SAT, and he motto Liberty or
death" See Pig o.
Tie earliest suzrr-toas 81 Stars in an
American Gag are II a standard Of the Phi
sdelphia Lsgn. horss lIT74-53, tkoaxa /. II
Tot probable hat this intlr@nced tie design
OK The national flag IL Eas OK tie 18Th OF
Jare, IN. that tie Ansxic4n conxress de-
c.dsd OF banner II IVES CO tia. tsy ~
Solved ''Ths- The flag q the tkir.4e- Cuis~sd
States Be Thirteen stripes ot as.eruGre red s-d
vnf.e; tazt toe Gnson be sisirteen sssr.
white n a h.u% Fed, representing new con
E-lstso0a zs.s Sezska MAs .: onn wo-
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01
tearing the covering from the face Of the

tearing the covering from the face Of the
man she loved
Then was there an excitement greater than
that aroused by his fall from the clouds, for
10! he was alive. Yes. alive; but crushed and
mangied in body most pitiably. When the
news reached Lafayette the grateful town
expressed its joy by firing cannon and send
ing up the sky rockets which had been for
hidden when the amateur balloonist was sup
posed TO be dead
Bad as the accident was for Clelland. it
had It's divine uses But for it he never
would have married Nettie Bankard, al
event in his life which has blessed MIN ever
since. The wedding took place the next day
after the accident. being the direct result of
it, In fact. Clelland read the love in tie
girls eyes when he came back to conscious
ness. Seeing him suffering, she forgot to
hide it. Remembering that he was rich and
she poor, and believing that he could benefit
her by his wealth, and also that his DAYS
were too few to be care upon her, he asked
the privilege Of becoming her husband
Even the long, long months that passed
before his broken body was made whole
were not wasted. He thought out an inven-
ton which brought him still greater wealth.
Better still, he thought out nobler philoso-
ply of life. Guided by an inner light, newly
born in his soul, he expended for others the
money his genius had earned. He is an
elderly man now, as patriotic as ever, still
resident OF Lafayette, and the greatest phil
anthropist in the state.
Ada Gusts married rich ard respectable
president Of Il savings bank. Ee had never
done anything so disreputable as to ''go NJ
in balloon" therefore she felt that her
pride was sIfe from modification. So it was
for several years; but one day the bank
closed suddenly and the banker hurried OF
to Europe without bidding his family or
friends adieu, and has never been heard Of
in Lafayette since Ada and her children
would have had a sorry time of it had it not
been for her brother Lindley, who turned
out splendidly," the people of Lafayette say
You have heard of him, am sure, one of
the broadest minded men in the country and
one of the best. But he is quite as radical
as he promised to be at fourteen
GERTRUDE GARRISON.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

Lovsfs a haseoan may nnd IL co1veniens
70 ksep In mind this eIplanAtion Of toe
pitchers curve from Mr. X A Proctor: II
the ball = advancing without spin, or il
spinning q az AKA lying along i.s cour.s.
the caah!on of cosnSr-sssd air carried forward
By II 10 conica.-ox rather c1uos6al-and
tberefo-e rs<asts Tia rroxyes. Of tie hall
equally on al dds, Affecting oriy IL
vsso1fy. Bat il the >ase q tn curve. vhss .
f&as tAU IL spinning 90 "a sxss square % ~
ccurs., the Air Ia front Of ne ax.vaoczng Cd
of lbs Spinning g1rfscs cannot e.e~ps ~
readily - II saers vWs 10 sJ3n, ard escsx~k
Inors readily O. Tie other s,ea Hazzc. o.
resisting csHhson u air h thrown tow.<f
tia: ssds Of the tan vhrs tks spin 10 for
ward. and removed fru<n Ms ether s.ds. anf
the tell b asnscssd frr<n tAssextna Of graz
-: rsaas.AonA-ArtAnaD Trsvssar 4.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

down TIRE village street the boys dropped"
on him and got ready TO enjoy themselves.
He sat down on the steop in front OF the
postofIice and quietly famed himself with his
straw hat while one Of the boys dropped q
lighted firecracker in his pocket.
Mice day" he observed TO the postmaster,
as the cracker went off. Thought ! would
run off 70 the country and snatch little rest
over the Fourth, " he continued, some one
carelessty lighted bunch OK crackers and put
them under his left elbow.
'Everythipg so calm and peaceful here"
he went on, after the smoke had cleared
away. Brings me back TO Ey boyhood's
days. Thanks, sonny, don't mind If
d." rs be took loaded cigar and lighted it.
yes" he remarked, rs the cigar went off,
ard he peIlsively picked a piece Of his eye
brow of with ons OF his well fingers,
used TO live in the country myself
Everything SO quiet and calm here dc
clare it does man good to breathe this pure,
freSh airo
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01
words could translate. But he did not see it.

words could translate. But he did not see it.
As Nettie walked away the gypsy woman,
with her eyes fixed dreamily upon her, said
softly to herself: I'VE meet them at the foot
Of weary hills and in lonely byways and
know them not Yet, as surely as the COM
ing OF the morning, will be the awakening,
and we shall know them es our own
Two hours later Harper Clelland was leav-
ing the door of the Gusts home The hand
some face Of Miss Gusts was white with
wrath, as she bade him good night and
good-by. A few PAGES from the steps he
turned and looked at her as she stood on the
balcony, her white gown giinting through
the green vines, her dark eyes burning with
anger. His heart sweiled with pain He
loved her well; butshe had told him to 90
away and come back no more The balloon
was the enemy that had done this. Clelland
enphaticany mathematical it as he stood
there, even while remaining loyal to it
81 am not to come againy he said i;Guir-
ingly, hoping, lover like, that she would re-
lent ct the last min ute. I'VE are to be
nothing TO each other hereaftery'
Nothing" she an swered, with the quiet
emphasis peculiar to heartless people
He walked away hurting mental invectives
ut the balloon, and CT Irses they say, rebound
E Yainst the one who 'utters them. There is a
D. Glosophy abroad now which holds that
Gu rse, even an unspe'ken one, damages its OBJ
jec. ' but damages it's utterer still more.
Fl operations for the great day went OF
brisk ". Speeches, music, dinner process
sion, be firing OF cannon and, most of all.
the ba ICON, were to make that particular
Fourth OF July glorious and memorable.
Patriots m YVES to walk forth in continental
purity VTeedom WIS TO shrek as much es
It pleased The eagle was to soar, and indie
peudence t. renew its youth
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01
On the Good Old T;mcs.r

In the good old times before the war" a
man who had served in any kind of an army
anywhere was a live curiosity in many
sections of the United States; and in nine
tenths OF the towns and villages a cannon
had never been seen. Indeed, the possession
of an old six FOUNDER rendered even small
city famous; and if some smith could be
found TO stretch his conscience far enough to
inscribe such gun with the legand that it
was Captured at Monterey" or Whereabouts.
people came twenty miles to see it fired OF
ON Independence Day.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

not assumed for more than year after
ward.
IL the meanwhile the colonies were fight
Ing a sort Of civil war. The British were
usually called the Regulars" and the Col
onists were simply in rebellion against what
they deemed oppression There was no nation
Of colonies. consequently there vas no
national enblems. The Stars and Stripes
which the Americans fought under after
ward WIS unknown. A national ensign was
not adopted till June, III. A glance at the
proniscuous banners under which the differ
ent American forces campaigned during the
first two years of the Revolution will be
found Of interest at this anniversary of the
birth of the nation.
The first regular t~ttle of the war was
Bunker Hill Ii is not likely that there were
any colors carried by the few militiamen
who were hastily gotten together at Concord
and Lexington two months before. But after
the skirmishes at these places each of the
colonies set up its own flag. Unfortunately
descriptions of these flags were not preserved,
and the information we have of them is very
vague. The most definite information as TO
American flags we get is in foreign jour
mails at ports where American ships at that
time touched. There is no satisfactory in
formation as to the standard used by the
ccionists at Bunker Hill fought on June
II, 1T1o. Indeed, it has never been proven
that they had any standards, though ono
writer says, they were as various as the
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

troops were motley" There is a picture Of
the battle in the rotunda of the Capt.
tel at Washington, painted by Trumbull, tho
celebrated American artist of that day, in
which the Americans are pictured fighting
under red flag having white canton bear
ing q green pine tree. Warren is said
to have reminded his troops of the
motto on their standard, on one side
of which were ''Qui transtulit, sustinet"
(He who brought lis here will sustain us).
and on the other, IAN Appeal to Heaven"
This appears to have been the Connecticut
motto An old lady told Mr.. Losing, the
historian. that her father was at the battle
and assisted in hosting the flag. lie had de-
scribed it 20 her. (See Fig. Ii The ground
was blue, with one corner CHARTERED by the
red cross Of st. George. in one section Of
which was "a nina
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01
Sparks and Flashes

Maid - orie=-A servgn- glrL
Oze often requires assls.ance in necotist-
Ing Loan
-ays TIE Weighing machine TO Tire rickal
Aile you're rc1Gd this way. drop ine
lie cosorins establishments located here
and tosre r.oYs osnc.lSiEely TIA: mn was
kaO q dys
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

NNf1h n.y. mn Ia A%tfA "A
Coofrnsd EAcsesor-Eow tin. dee, e.,
M sa><.cAi Wig. = WA ten ys>r. e
tat yoc r<ussd n oG thaA y,oz r
xiss SAAnds fwto v.xa<-z ste hsls'r-l
;oog - ttA;i i vas young .nA foe2sxa uA-u.
Mr. 5<nk.h-
Cnu2s1ac psehAcr-Brs 10 60 h~sh
oAd~ 81 wiser 1Dv.-2ac~4 L>w
Rolling ost Eine Barrsn. I
BJ Aassns O; recso. improvements map
IN tse manufacture q RITES 81 many -
l1J barrels can EOw 70 rolled in 40 hos.f
By one rrachine. Tasy are s-rs1yarsnh
cold and tered VITA corresponding sper-i.
aid even the r.sfrS IA done automatically.
20 TIA; orss man tsrdtng az machines CA
t1rn ens sixty - seventy barrels an
VIII the o.c ring rls1stEs twenty hs 3
res ~>S sboGi re ar4it q days wofs
b1. Ice improved machines attend 20 4
erytEsnx afis: Being cace stArtsi.
wnsa the faa.ng 70 completed, RAG =
10 call The attention II The vcssuSak
Csnc.Ssau Esgu.ses
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

Conceited Young MAN. wonder why that
beautiful young lady over there looks at me
so much guess shs is trying to make An
impression.
Sarcastic Young Lady-That is not the res
son She has weak eyes, and the doctor mas
told her to relieve them by looking AZ some
thing gTeen-Texas Siftings
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

Tlullafed. and the vast nszrshAr az cofnufat
flags. bearing rattlesnakes, pine trees, Union
Jacks and other enblems and mottoes, dissp-
peared. and the remainder Of tie war W.
fought out under the Stars aud Seripea
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

The small boy had his fun, however: the
patriot his powder boom--wIth knotty logs
in which holes bad been bored and filed with
powder, or similar devices. But the favorite
piece of ordnance" consisted of two anvils,
so placed as to make the square depressions
match, thus making a large cavity to be
filed with powder When ell was set the
'artillerist" took a long iron rod, one end of
which had been heated in q convenient fire,
AMI touched the printing; there was flash, a
stunning report, and the upper anvil rose
grandly, while the patriotic veil made the
blood thrill This was repeated for the num-
Der of states, and if no one got powder
burnt" the demonstration was counted bril-
liant SUCCESS
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

THERE'S THE WHOLE STORY IN THE RECORD
With an inlpish CLEAN of pleasure in his eyes
The boy drew crisp copy of the city's most
Important journal from his pocket and read
aloud the lines of 4 tremendous horse head
which told in the boldeSt and blec6est faced
type In Lafayette that the young and hand
some Harper Clelland would make an ascen-
sion from the court house yard on the Firth
of July in the balloon Nv. :. Larkel. named
In honor of the editor OF The Record, who,
with MIR. Clelland, from motives of patriot
ISM, viii pay the expenses of this, the city's
first balloon ascension.
Lindley read the blazing head lines in
voice that admitted OF no further doubt on
The part of has nearer Then followed a col
xlrnn or more of double headed particulars Of
khe highly dramatic event, as it was 10 be. in
The Records most conspicuous columns
Young Gusts read every line OF it aloud with
hiabohcal JOY, not unmixel with genuine ad-
fniration for the hero Of the day.
Miss Custis heard it through in silence. but
her face grew very hard AMI white, and her
dark eyes blazed with wrath. Then, with
contemptuous laugh, which gurglei away
into snatch OF song. TO prove her indif-
ference, she went out Of the room. But her
young tormentcr was not deceived 1T
grindS her like everything be said 70 him
self, and the thought seemed 10 give him
extraordinary satisfaction, so high and fms
= thing is brotherly affection al IL
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01

The whole town talked of young CleIIand
that evenings The richest, handsomeSt and
most popular young gentleman in the COM
munity-it was generally admitted that he
could do almost anything not positively
criminal without losing caste-bue a balloon
ascension was little TOO much for the best
people" TO forgive. Lafayette WAS not sci
entific In its taste IL rather leaned 70 the
Dlogy, and balloons were then supposed 20
owe their origin to theology's most powerful
foe Certain tea table circles doubted tbs
propriety OF letting their Juvenile members
Bee the evil thing go W. They scented con
famination in the air. Nothing but the Il
rense of the immortal Fourth could mitigate
% wide departure from decorun, But
Liberty iooseS her STAYS on thar historic day
and breathes with ease, and everybody tao
lily agrees that she has a right u compor.
herself Enthusiastically if she chooses to do 50.
Some of the maUons of Lafayette said that
n Harper Clelland's mother was alive this
balloon escaDade Of his would never take
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-01
' 41t - - - -
fresh air. -

jest then soDe one fired a gun of under
his left ear. and a cannon cracker came
down from above and liz on the rim Of bis
hat. while q small boy cravLsd under the
stoop and lied several buRchcs Of twenty-five
cent crackers around his ankles.
The stranger half closed his eyes, and Q
peaceful look came over him "Ah, weIl.'
ne said, after the noise bad partly died away,
81 suppose this can't last forever. Ere long
must tear myself away from toess rural Do
lights, from this peaceful sceEe.' and 10 ro<
70 20.
May / ask what yoor occupation isr said
the postmaster.
= I'm New York Lo:ei clerk
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1888-12-06

with a1draught Of water from his
excellency's silver service. Great
consideration was shown by the
Mexican officials TO all the Ameri.
cans and IL is surmised that the
president has learned a trick or
two from his otfice-sceking col J.
leagues on this side Of the Rio
Grande. As an example it may
be mentioned that at the formal
reception in the palace he seized
Bro. Benefits baby, of Muskogee,
and kissed it as though he had
forgotten that neither its mother
nor father were voters in his
country.
From Laredo the excursioni Is
will visit a number of the chief
cities of Texas, among the number
Corpus Christi, Galveston, Dallas,
Fort Worth and others. Most
Of the delegates will reach their
homes this week, though the rail-
roads have given them to January
iirstto make it, if they wish.
Yours. NJ.