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The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-01-22
Greeting.
ALBION, IDAHO. January 1897.

ALBION, IDAHO. January 1897.
To all the year 1897 means oppor-
tunity; the Albion State Normal pre-
sents rare educational opportunity
which is the key to success in life. This
Normal presents these among other adj
vantages: competent faculty, free
tuition, board from three dollars and a
half down to one per week, books prac-
tically free, certificates and diplomas
for graduation and successive steps in
the courses, the influence of the school
in securing positions to teach, de-
mand already for our graduates, Ii
brary of dictionaries, cyclopedias, ETC.,
for daily use in class work, good school
Accommodations and moral influences.
Second term of this year opens Febru-
airy Sd but students may enter at any
time and find classes to suit, There is
a line of work in the course as well ad-
apted to business as can be found in
any school. Write for further inform
alton and catalogue. Very truly,
F. A. SwANGER, President.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-01-22
About the Man Who Works.

The Hartford Courant insists that
no word in the English language is
more missused and absolutely re.
stricted than the word "workingman.
The Courant says 1T has come to
mean the man who works with his
hands at some kind of employment
which calls especially for an outlay of
physical energy. And so we hear etern-
ally abont the workingman in contrast
with the non-working capitalism a
sort of opposition, indeed, to all white
handed folk who don't begrime them
selves by actual contact with mother
earth. And this mischieyous and mis-
leading phrase makes trouble and is
good example of the danger of false
nomenclature and of looseness of def
milton. For what nonsense it all is!
The workingman is the man who works
and who has to work; the nature of his
labor has nothing to do with it. The
proper use of the term includes all Am
orleans except that exceedingly small
and not greatly respected class of oilers
who ape the English gentry in more
or less ungraceful attempt to do moth
ing picturesquely. We are a nation
made up of working men, and it is one
of this country's most honored dis.
tinctions. Let this idea once be firmly
grasped, and how ridiculous becomes
the thought of antagonism between the
man manually active and the man driv-
ing his pen, or directing the complex
machinery of great business, or plead
ing law cases, or turning out of bed
nights to visit patients. No class of &C.
cupation in this land has a monopoly
on hard work-that's one of the few
things monopoly hasn't touched" The
notion that physical work with the
hands is the only work comes from a
more primitive state of society, when
the most important man in the peace
full community was the blacksmith and
the most important man in the peace
full state was the warrior. But human
ity has taken long strides forward since
those days, and it is high time the old
was allowed to fade away
before modern facts. So with timely
pertinence the Courant observs and
with a clear appreciation
of the truth that work is broad term
in our present day complex life, and
that the diverse kinds of working men
are all brothers in the struggle and all |
worthy of their hire, much of the angry |
talk about Glasses and masses would |
cease to be heard" Mental work is
physical work, sometimes of the most |
5iresom and dangerous kind. A man
may use his eyes more than he uses his
hands or his feet and still be working
nan. There is no excellence in any
inc without painstaking care and dill
,ent labor. The word "workingman"
n its restricted sense is found only in
he dictionary of the demagogue.
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ton are invented, for, were this not the.
case, in comparatively brief period
the jewelers. and photographers, the
dentists and the china makers, the
painters and the electrotypers, the Chi
namen and the Hindoos would use up
or hide away all the gold and silver and
compel us to resort to a system of bar
tering for everything we need in daily
life, or else use fiat paper money.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-01-22

The quantity of precious metals in
often been matter of controversy, not
much light being thrown on the subject
by the somewhat vague statements
that have come down in the pages early
writers, who may have or may not have
possessed exact information. 1t is, for
example, stated that the booty Cyrus
acquired in the conquest of Croesus
amounted in our money to over $40
100000, while AleXander's plumber from
the Persian empire exceeded S400,000,-
900. When Julius Caesar assumed the
office of dictator his first care was to
seize the Roman treasury, and in the
annals of that day it is recorded that
he possessed himself of $40 tons of gold
and 700 tons of silver, an amount so
large as to excite the suspicion of gross
exageration. Estimates have been made
by Jacob, Tooke, Fewmarch and others
of the worlds stock of these two prec-
ious metals at different dates since the
beginning of our era, but it is extreme
ly doubtful whether the figures given
by these eminent financial authorities
have any more value than so many con-
lectures, since it is plain that there
were no reliable means of arriving at
exact information. Since the discovery
of America, however, the governments
of civilized powers have devoted con-
siderable amount of labor to the collec-
ton of statistics bearing on the sub
ject, and there is reason to believe that
the figures given for the production of
both metals are at least approximately
correct. Mulhall estimates that be-
tween 1892 and the present time the
world has produced 12,436 tons of gold
and 215,293 tons of silver, and as Null |
hall stands at the head of statistical au-
thorities, his assertions are worthy of |
serious consideration, for they are new
er made without honest attempts to ar
rive at the truth.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-01-22
For Sale.

A three room house, with large cellar
underneath and good stable. An ex-
cellent home for small family, with
stable for team and COWS and yard room
for poultry, etc. Half mile from centre
of town. Not on company ground.
A chance for a bargain. Inquire at
NUGGET office.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1897-01-22
WHAT BECOMES OF IT ?

In fact, gold and silver, like human
beings, have thousand ways of getting
out of the world, and, being out, never
come back. Tons of silver go every
year into the photograph galleries and
disappear, being spread in the form of
subtitle chemical, over the work of the
artist. Whole barrels of gold, in the
form of sponge or gold leaf are jammed
and pushed and pounded into the
worlds teeth, to be carried around for
few years and then borne to the GEM
eteries, which thus becomes veritable
gold mines. Every china set with its
pieces bordered with gilt helps to de-
plete the worlds stock of precious
metal; every cup in the BARRIERS shelves,
handsomely lettered with the name of
the customer to whose use it is eXclu-
sively devoted, takes certain amount
of gold from the visible supply; every
plated collar button, though sold for a
dime, helps to exhaust the worlds gold.
Rings and earrings and brooches and
bracelets become dirty and are cleaned,
and every time they are submitted to
this process a little of the gold is re-
moved. Silver articles blacken from
the gases in the atmosphere; the black
coating is rubbed away, without a
thought that it is silver which has been
altered in appearance through chemical
action. Every great fire burns up some
gold and silver, every ship that goes to
the bottom of the ocean carries with it
more or less of the precious metals
Coins are daily lost from hand or
pocket and never found by the loser.
Sometimes they are picked up by other
persons, but as frequently as not they
are covered up in the sweepings or mud
of the street, thrown into the dust wag-
on by the registered voters who trans
act this part of the citys business, and |
go to the dump, where they are lost for
ever. Not a little gold disappears in
the form of medicine, common tonic |
now being made from this metal, while |
much more vanishes into the system of |
once bibulous citizens anxious to be |
freed from their bondage to the cups
which inebriate quite as much as cheer.
In each and every case the destruction
of material is complete. In large es-
where gold and silver are
worked into various forms some of the
waste may be recovered the carpets
and pieces of buckskin used to catch
the filings are burned the bags used to
transport coin and the barrels in which
it is stored are similarly treated, but 10
human skill has yet been able to devise
ways and means to prevent loss from
or recover the metal worn
away. In one way or another the loss
is continually going on, a total loss that
must be replaced from the worlds
mines. 1t is well that these appear to
be inehaustible that new mines are
opened, new fields Astounding in prec-
aus metals are discovered that new
which cheaper the produC- /
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

Prof. Boas has brought back from
Alaska much valuable material relat-
ing to the primitive tribes there, and
Prof. Saville has started for Yucatan
to study the ancient Maya Indians by
the way in the state of ChiaDas, Mex
leo. He is planning to bring back ma
terial for Mayer to work on Full
blOOded Sioux, NaYajOs. Apaches. Pu-
6iblOS, ZunS, SeminOleS, CheyenneS,
Ogallalas and Klamath Indians from
the borders of Oregon and California
are much desired. and a thorough
search Will be made for them. 1t is
likely that much of the work on these
tribes, some of which at least can
surely be modelled, even though their
members are now well scattered and
degraded, will fall into the hands Of
Prof. Frederick Starr of the University
Of Chicago, who is most enthusiastic
in this new branch Of science.
From New Mexico, at the QUERIES
Pueblo of Cochite, Prof Starr has just
brought back to the university a series
of ten life masks, which he believes to
be the finest series ever made from
one single Indian tribe. The busts
made from these are unusually fine.
They show Is males, from j TO 70 years
of age. and three females. whose ages
range from 10 TO 40. Twelve sets OF
these busts are planned, some white
anu Ct1LCIS tOlOiCUs anu TREY are 10 De
presented to leading institutions
throughout the country
At the national museum there are
besides the Clark Mills busts. a num-
Der of casts of the Indian boys at the
Carlisle school. In addition to these,
Mr.. O. T. Mason, the curator, has pre-
pared careful groups correct in model
ing and characteristics, and pointing
out wildly the features of Indian life.
These have been highly praised by
scientific men. and the faces and forms
are substantially correct. a sculptor
who has studied in Munich is employed
| on the faces, and no expense is spared
to nave every detail perfect
In all probability the national muse
UNI will send an elaborate exhibit to
Paris, ito represent, as Mr. Mason
says, the phases of life existing abo-
riginally in the western world"
CROMWELL CHILDS.
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discoveries power of language and
overwhelming arguments in its favor,
the surgeons lancet would have lain
rusting in it's case, instead of relieving
thousands yearly from canlering dis
ease.
When chloroform was in its infancy
my father longed to see it's effects on
all around. He had "chloroform par
ties" and the guests tried it in turn.
A student who boosted that he could
not be rendered unconscious by it's
fumes was promptly dosed before
roomful of on-lookers. To prove to
him beyond denial that he had been
under the sway of the drowsy sirup.
they proceeded, while he slept to take
off his dapper shoes; but below the
patent leather We're toeless, heelless
went up. Poor laddie, maybe he has
not got his mother to darn for him.
said the professor. The student found
a loosened tie, a face black with burnt
cork when he awoke, and was happily
unaware that the needleless state of
his outwardly dandiied wardrobe had
been revealed.
Professor Simpson did not rest on his
| laurels. He sought for a still ADLER
anesthetic agent, and continued his
experiments, with several narrow
escapes of his life. Lyon Playfair
saved him once by insisting that some
new compound he had found be first
tried on rabbits, who proved it fatal
drug. He advocated the use of chloro-
form in slaughtering cattle. He went
! fishing one day with a patients son,
and noting the wriggling of the worm,
! felt in his surtout pockets for the in
evitable panacea he carried there.
HIS EARLY STRUGGLES.
These facts may serve to throw
much light on the character of the
was born in June, 1911, the seventh son
of poor parents. His father, after fail
ing as a distiller had started business
anew as a baker, with a large family
to support and not much capital. His
mother was a practical, genial woman
of Huguenot descent and from her
James got his sanguine, impressionabe
temperament and c0niuring manners
which, with the Scottish stanchness of
purpose, were so characteristic of his
after years. As a boy he was sunny Of
temper, even willing TO lend his aid
! to play or business, however engrossed
/ in the book which was never out of
his hand. He was always truthful
| and guileless, and it is told of him that
once, when he found crooked penny
under a stone and was delighting in
I TINS Wlnu1all, WHY Dfothef SAID to
4 him. Maybe it's gloudmagrannie's 81
/ (the Evolutionary witch of Bathgate);
better not touch it, Jamie" The
4 small boy promptly replaced it, but
he innocently marveled how young
/ David had a similar bent coin in his
( possession that evening.
When only II. thanks to the savings
of his father and brothers, he was en-
rolled as an Edinburgh student. Here
the vehement thirst for acquiring div
ers knowledge, which had been noticed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07
Some Queer Willis.

Wills are often funny read---g to
those who have no pecuniary interest
in them, but then the quaintest of
them are apt to be annoying, Some
time ago q wealthy bachelor died whose
wiz contained clause which caused
both establishment and dismay to his
relatives, for in it he left a large sum
Of money to provide pensiocs to a
limited number Of sexagenarian
spinsters. these ladies proving their
eligibility by producing evidence to
show that they had declined one or
more advantageous proposals of mar
rage.
Somewhat similar was the will of
another old gentleman. who left lega-
cies to- three ladies in gratitude be
cause they refused to marry him, to
which fact he attributes all his earthly
happiness.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

with the use of an nge-colored
screen in front Of the lens. The result,
Of course, is a picture devoid of at
mosphere, and hence defective from the
artistic standpoint, but palpably more
valuable for the purposes of the sur
Veyor, who very likely has taken the
picture solely to show the exact loca-
ton, altitude and contour Of a distant
mountain.
The use of these methods for restrict
ing the light necessitates very long eX-
pOsures, and this in turn makes requi-
site the use of plates coated on the back
with q light material $50
called non halation plates) else the
light reflected from the back surface of
the plate would fog the film. Mr.. Deville
is careful to point cut that this coating
must be in optical contact with the sur
face of the glass; in other words. act
ually painted upon it. the mere placing
of a black cloth or paper against the
back of the plate, for instance, being
Of no service whatever.
OTHER COUNTRIES TAKING IT UP.
When all these technical difficulties of
Photographic surveying are made clear,
it no longer seems so strange that the
method has been but slowly adopted by
surveyors, even in those districts where
its advantages would be most marked.
The surveyors who tried it usually
failed to get any available results. and
they did not realize that the fault lay
with themselves, and not with the
method. The Canadian surveyors, how
ever, have row proven beyond caYiI
what the method is capable of. and
quite recently other countries are fall
ing in line. In Germany and in Italy,
indeed, much valuable work in this di
rection had been done, even earlier than
the Canadian surveys, though nowhere
on any such scale as here. But it is q
curious fact that in France. the home
Of Lausssdat, the originator and per-
fectOr OF the method, no official support
or recognition was accorded it until. al
most half a century after its first in
PRODUCTION, it comes back to its original
seat, bearing the approval of half a
dozen outside governments in particu-
lar Of Canada. But now at last the
value Of Laussedat's invention is COM
ing to be recognized even by his own
countrymen.
To anyone who reads of the Canadian
surveys, il Will be clear the surveying
/ with q camera on q tripod is an accom-
I plished result. There is yet another ap-
! pilcation of the Photographic method to
I surveying, however. which is still in the
! experimental stage. This is the use of
4 cameras not mounted on tripods, but
suspended from kites and balloons.
1 There are enthusiasts who believe that
I ali the surveying Of the future. no mat
: ter what the character Of the topog-
raphy, will be done exclusively in this
way. AIr. Deville. it should be noted.
/ does not share in this view; yet his re-
suits with the tripod method would
seem TO give q. certain warrant for the
4 great expectations of the balloon pho
4 tographer SO soon as the dirigible fly
s ing machine is an accomplished snech-
anisnl, there would seem TO be no fur
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07
INDIAN BUSTS AND PORTRAITS
UNIQUE METHOD OF PRFSERv
ING THE RED MANS CHAR
ACTERIsTICs.
Life Masks, Bronze Figures and
Groups Of the Principal Indian
Tribes of America-Expedi to
Alaska, Mexico and Other Points
For the Purpose of Gathering
Types.

a strong chronological movement has
been started in various scientific insti-
tuticns throughout the country. 1t has
for its object the preservation of the
facial and bodily characteristics OF the
American Indian. Realizing that it is
even now almost too late, ethnOlOgiStS
Of the United States are attempting to
stamp in imperishable bronze and mar
bic, before the last full-blood has
passed away. the features of the Indian
cOuntenance.
1t is a mighty work, and one that viii
require years TO round it out adequate
ly. Until now the story of the tribes
of the Indians of North and South
America has been carried down only in
drawings, legends, bits of garments
and implements. None of these por-
trayed the Indian precisely, certainly
not scientifically The scientists have
a two-fold object in their present work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07
DISCOVERY OF CNLOR0FORM.
SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSONS DAUGE-
TER TELLS ABOUT IT.
He Made the Discovery Fifty Years
Ago-Remarkab1e Industry That
Resulted-How He Convinced
Skeptics.
BY EVA BLANTYRE SIMPSON.

BY EVA BLANTYRE SIMPSON.
The 5Oth anniversary of the first use
Of chloroform as an anesthetic took
place this week. On the evening of
Nov. 4, 1S47, Sir James Y. Simpson
and his assistants, Drs. George Keith
and Matthews Duncan, inhaled it's
fumes, and, in Simpsons own graphic
words, were AL under the mahogany
in a trice, to my wife's great conster-
nation and alarm" "Chloroform,"
said Lawson TAFT, has been to surgery
what the motive power of steam has
been to the arts, manufacturers and
commerce. BY giving us chloroform
Sir James Simpson freed the shackles
which thereby bounded the progress
of surgery SO that since that time,
what was but rough. almost savage
art, IS now one of our greatest and
most rapidly growing sciences, and to
him be the glory of it all Ether.
said DR.. Lander Brunton, lis blunt
knife. chloroform is a sharp l1nife,
and hut for this sharp knife and its
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-07

inpOrtant one, enabling the surveyor
TO chart mountainous lands that are
practically inaccessible 10 the carrier
Of chain ard trident, and altogether so
to The user of the plane table, and TO
do the work not only well. but cheaplyt
This being the case, it seems strange
that the method has not come into uni
Versal use, for it appears that though
stiil in n sense 2. novel method, it is
bv no means new. II originated as
long ago as 1S49 with the distinguished
Frenchman I.aussedat, who at first
Dracticed surveying with the use of
the camera lucida for making the
drawings. and who soon afterward sub
stitcted the camera. He published fun
accounts Of what he had done, and,
indeed. brought the Photographic
method to full perfection, notwith-
standing the relativ crudeness Of the
innDl ene nts then at command and the
great difficulties of the old wet method
Of Photography.
IT Is not strange, perhaps, that Laus-
sedat found few followers in the day Of
she old wet-plate photography; but
why there have not been more of them
since the dry plate came to simplify
photography is not at first sight so
clear Mr.. Deville, himself almost the
first and by far the most advanced of
Iaussedat's disciples, explains it, how
ever IL CUE 90 Lie Lte1t Qdl1iCultlGS ~
the DhCtog-a pbic method, even when
practiced with al modern aids. The
rreticaily, ft might seem the easiest
thing in this day Of universal push
The button" photography, TO instruct
the trained surveyor SO that he could
substitute camera for his plane-GdDla
ard at once secure excellent results. A
drawing which with any other means
would require hours to secure, even in
Outline may be transferred to the gela-
line plate, SIS everybody knows, in a
fraction of a second. Having secured
a series Of such sun records, from
fixed and recorded points of oi0serva-
Gion, the photographer has but to take
his negatives home, print enlarged pic
lures from them, and proceed TO his
real surveying in his office
But ia practice, Mr.. Deville assures
us. the case is quite different, and his
' warning is the more to be needed be-
cause it comes from an ardent advo-
cate OF the method. The causes Of fail
IRE on the part Of many who have tried
the method and discarded il il disgust
are chiefly TWO. One Of thage is a de
faetiz-e knowledge Of descriptive geom.
errv AMI perspective, which are essen
+tals &c the plotting Of Photographic
s71ys-a7-irlg. but which have OF COURSE
lf4tga interest for the general reader
Tne other difficulty lies III the nanipu-
lation &c the Photographic apparatus il
SAT- ana the making Of a proper mega
tive. This. we are assured, is by Ak
rneans The easy thing IL seems, since
75hotographs that would be highly ac-
cg-llfabla to the average Photographic
,s7.gfassiGnaI or amateur, might bs
.ailile useless for the purpose Of thu
f,5r example, the surveyors picture
i, arder to be Of use, must be taker
z.isa the camera in precisely the hori-