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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23
A DISHONEST PRACTICE.

We desire To call the attontion oil the
people Of this township and OF this coun-
~ to the practice OF speculating IN
municipal orders with the township and
county funds This work has been car
ried to great extent in tho past by
township treasurers and il is high time
that some of them we're called 10 halt.
II " misfortune TO have floating or
ders, ii il disgrace that they should be
so deprecated as to nont below par
when they ara bearing n good rate oil
iatorest but il is ma net OF public rob
berry Tor township, county or village
treasurer To take money that has
been paid him for tho purpose OF paying
these orders and used it in buyiaS them
up at discount.
A treasurer in sspposed To earn
enough out Of the lees paid him to com
pensate him for all the work that he has
10 do. II thnt Ia not enough, paw him
more. Wa do not kick when AZ officer
gets good pay In fact good pay is the
best moraliEing agency that you can use
upon public Official bat we do register
IA hearty kick, whether it does any good
or not, when an officer uses public funds
for an uniawial purpose.
This practice has been carried on
brazenly ia the past and no attempt has
been made az hiding it, The operators
have not even had that regard Tor the
proprioty OF tho occasion that secrecy
would lend dignity to.
Any treasurer that will discount
township, county or village order with
the township, county or village money
is not wit better than the burglar that
would break into the vault and steal il
and ought not receive any bOtts cos
siderstio at the hands OF the ceAman-
ity. We aro not advocating . purity
wave. We know OF nothing To parity,
but we have seen such things done. in the
past and we must fashion tho future
spon tho experience Of tho past.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23

WE are in receipt OF tho October mum.
her OF the Michigan Bulletin, the official
paper OF the Michigan Press Association.
published by tho Secretary OF tho asso-
ciation. MIR. Il, j. Lowrey, 81 Howard
City. The October issue IL tho annivor-
sary number and it appears In holiday
apparel. The Bulletin is u thing OF
beauty and it's we'll stocked pngos make
useful AS well ~ pleasant reading.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23
nor,h-wsstern Time Table.

TRAiNb ARRIVING.
No. 81. 1905 a. III. daily except Sunday
No. S....3:35 p. IN.
No. 33. APO p. IN. /"
No. l4..9:45 u. IN. Sunday Only.
TRAINS DEPARTING.
No. 7......9:l0 IN, daily except Sunday.
Connects at Staper for points west aud
AT Posers Goa points north and south.
No 3i.....1l:35 a. m., daily except sun.
day. Connects at Stager Tor points
between Stager and Watcrsmcet.
No. 33.....5:05 p m, daily except Sun
day for Escanaba andi points south OF
Powers.
No. ai.....l:55 q. ~, daily except sAn-
day for Anasa.
No. 13......6:05 p. N, sundays only Tor
Escanaba with connection at Powers
for points south.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23
Mortgage Sale.

First publication sept. I last Dec. 4, 1907.
Under the power OF sale contained ia mort.
gags. Margaret T. blcCuAker IN mortRngor aud
Standard Savings and Loan Association, OF
Detroit, Michigan, IL the mortgagee. The mort
gage bears date October I, 1890, was recorded
October 2 |, 1890, In Office OF the Register Of
Deeds Tor Iron county. Michigan. In Lib-r A OF
mortgages on pages 5Ta and 674. At this date
there " duo on said mortgage Five Hundn.i
FL rty five Dollars and Fifty CENTS. The mort
gagged premises ARE situated la the Village OF
Crystal Falls, Iron county. Michigan. via Lot
numbered sxty'five tO5D of the original plat oil
the Village Of Crystal Falls. This land Will be
sold at the trout entrance To the Court House
la the Village OF Crystal Falls, Iron county
Michigan, on Monday, December a. 1897, at
twelve o'clock noon. local time, 10 satisfy the
amount due on said mortgage, costs and eH.
Detses OF said sale aud the attorney Zee pro.
yided for In said mortgage aud by law.
Dated sept. 81. 1897
STANDARD SAyINos AND LOAN AasoCIATION
BARBOUR a. KExFonn, MonraAalE
Attorneys for Mortgage
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23

GEo. Tucker, Of Ishpemine has been
appointed deputy revenue collector for
this district, by collector, j. q. Adams.
The appointment Is an excellent one
and went to man whose labors in his
pnrty's behalf have well earned him the
recognition he has received. The people
OF Iron County will remcmbcg Mr.. Tuck.
er ns the gentleman who stumped the
county last inll
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23

The PHILADELPHIA RECORD SAYS that
the Dingley law comes laundering down
the line in the second month of.its,oper.
alton with u deficit oi three and a hall
million dollars. What a noise there must
have been in the second month OF the
Wilson law, when the deiicitI amounted
tn thirteen aud a hall million.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23

York ihhsirlI snd rfms~ver, tbc ossey,ns
Is. IL must be reganictfns ttpvirsfics 81 shr
people OF New York ar TO Who is To rule
New York, not ~ the verdict Of those
people on the great national issues u
the day.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23

pos'iioD wss MI Adopted. spt, ye; hsrs
we find 10 the country to-tk,y nearly a
hundred millios dollars more in eIre,,la.
ton than there was "a year ago, and not
dollar 81 il ircs silver. Gold alone
has increased in circulation in the last
year over fifty million dollars.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23
Don't be
Deceived

BY the ridiculous offers that are being made
BY some dealers. They are only calculated 20
mislead you aad catch the minimizing. Mer.
chants Who spring some new fad on you every
week 20 catch Your trade are not the ones 20 be
trusted, When they tell you that their facilities
for bnying aud selling goods are better than
their neishbors' they are only lying aud fair
minded, Intelligent people don't believe then
gush. We prefer 10 stick to
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23
A announcement

Having purchased the harness
business of X. Il. Hollow. am
prepared to give the people of
Falls the best of service
in the line of harness work.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23

AT IA recent Democratic rally in New
York, Col. Asa Gardiner, one OF tho
Tammany orators, stated briefly and
pointedly the ideas OF his organization
on the question of reform in municipal
affairs in the expression, "to hell with
reform" Candor ia seldom mention
able virtue amongst politicians, and
this iraRkness on tho part OF Dir. Gar.
diner IL praisworthy from the TACT that
Il unmasks the purpose OF the organl.
zation he represents, in the des-
porate fight which IL in now waelng for
the control OF the municipal affairs In
greater New York.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23
Honorable
Methods

In bnying aud selling goods and we guarantee
that you viii got as much Tor your dollar Ia our
hne as you eau get anywhere else We DO not
deem u necessary TO resort 10 braegadocio
methods to catch trade We thank our many
PATROLS Tor their literal patronage and trust
our relations wilI CONTINUE a. pleasant in the
future 90 in the past
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23

WAR wore some ei those remarks
THAT were heralded around from Popo-
cratic stump to stump last yoar To the
effect that our currency was so limited
and constructed that we could not do
business, nHd thnt the osly hope Tor u
return to prosperity was through the
free coinage oi silver at sixteen To one ?
II h quite evident 20 obser vnnt mon
than some al these Pspocrlts we're
laboring under "A mistake, because by
reicrenco To the election rotarnr 81 1896
il will bo seen that the frcc-cuinage pro.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-10-23
1bas. m. Rogers

'Hce back OF Nccourt's Picture Gallery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
The Eclipse.

The eclipse OF the sun came OIL in A6oe-
Vile promptly according to the announced
program. Our citizens, both white and black
looked at the phenomenon with equanimity,
and without any scare or apprehension OF
dire results.
We learn from the Atlanta Journal that the
negroes of that city were more or less alarm
ed because OF the eclipse, and that their man.
Hesitation of fear on the occasion was unmis-
taxable.
If the Atlanta Evening Journal scribe had
been In Abbeville and seen the Rev. Noah
Ferguson, contractor, bricklayer and plaster
er, together with his army OF bri%ckiayers,
plasterers, hod carriers, mortar makers, and
diggers and wheelers Of dirt. looking at the
sun through a smoked piece of window glass
in an air OF familiarity with the subject OF as
tronomy, with never a fear or alarm In the
hearts of any,, that newspaper would have
been ashamed of the ignorance and supersti-
ton of the Atlanta darkey. The Journal
ought TO do something TO relieve the darkies
of that city of the dense cloud Of Ignorance
and superstition that overhangs them. 1t
doesn't speak we'll for a great city like Allan
ia to have its citizens scared into conaiption
fits because OF the eclipse OF the sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04

These reports were referred to an Auditing
Committee consisting of w. H. Parker, A.
M. Erwin and A.. b. Morse, who reported re-
port correct and properly youched: ADOPTED,
were reported as having died since last meet
Ing OF this society.
The chair appointed Rev.O Y. Bonner. r.
c.. Brownlee, Jr., w. z. Brown a commit.
death Of Prof. Kennedy. and Prof. j. r. Blake,
W. A. Templeton and Joel Bailey a commit
tee TO prepare q similar paper In relation 10
Mr.. Green. The society requested these COM
mittees To prepare these papers and have
them published as a minute OF this society at
as early a day as practicable.
The treasurer reported three hundred dol
lars in the treasury subject to appropriation.
II was resolved to appropriate $500 as a gift to
the Parent Society, $50 Of which Was TO be ap.
piled TO the making OF Miss Adellne V. Black
a life member Of the American Bible Society,
and one hundred dollars were appropriated to
The hanks OF the society are rendered to
DR.. ]. A. Clifton and TO DR.. T. H.. Law for
their sermon and address respectively.
Rev. r. H. Nall, the pastor Of the Presbyte,
riap church at Greenwood, S. c., was elected
principal preacher for the annual meeting In
1898, and Rev. o. Y. Bonner, Of the A. r. P.
church of Due West. his alternate.
President Woodward. Of the South Caro-
dent Cromer, OF the Newberry College, his al
ternate. to deliver the anpuala address for 1898.
The following Board was elected to serve
for the ensuing year:
President-W. NJ. Grier.
Observation-Disclosures MCGOWAN, Joseph
+. Pressly,C C. A.C. Waller, j. D. Neel. and w.
l.. Pressly vice is. Cothran resigned.
Directors-J. T. Parks, R. F. Bradley, w. II.
Parker, ]. Lowry Wilson, J. w. Huckabee,
Jas. Cothran, Jr, w. r.. Dunn, Fly. Pressly
J. o. Lindsay, A. l.. Patterson. j: c: Klugh
vice ]. P. Kennedy, deceased, and D. D.. Phil.
lips vice J. w. Green, deceased.
Corresponding Secretary-L. w. White.
Recording Secretary-L. W. Perrin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
Maintain the Golden Mean.

True peace begins at the heart. Ii
we never felt bitter towards another
there would be no wars. One has we'll
said :
1T is always we'll to avoid inconsid-
crate efforts to redress what may seem
to be injuries received from others.
The Christian should never, on the
other hand, brood over supposed griev-
ances. The lack of moderation may be
equally manifest in both extremes.
Every thing depends upon u sincere
purpose to deal justly both with our
selves and others. Whoever acts under
the guidance of this principle will very
likely find the golden mean by which
he may successfully rebuke evil: Such
a principle as this favors calm delloer-
alton and, at the same time. preserves
in us q frankness of spirit and manner
that usually disarms an opponent. But
it is a good thing, after all, to REMIND
ourselves that we may have deserved
the urwelcome treatment; our own
conduct may have been such as
naturally provoked unfriendliness on
the part of others " W standard
hy which we Judge them may have
been altogether low and selfish. When
ever the above characteristics are
found in any person, namely, a pur-
pose to pursue the right course towards
all, and a knowledge of our own
deficiencies, there is the best
preparation possible to meet and over
come the wrongs inflicted upon US by
others.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
Personal Indulgence a DeIusiOn.

Some people have got the notion in
their heads that economy is mean and
niggardly, and that lavish expenditure
is the true sign of a generous nature
If any such should happen to be read
ers Of this Journal, we beg to assure
them that they are laboring under q
delusion. 1t is doubtful whether eve
wealthy people have any right to
scatter their money In personal
indulgence, and it is certain that nc
one has any right to live beyond his
means. The end of that road is
dishonor and disgrace. Better is even
the hardest and most Observation-Disclosures
economy than the vulgar dishonesty
which clothes itself in purple and fine
linen that it is not really able to buy,
and fares sumptuously every day on
delicate viands that somebody else
pays for.
TO spend more money than you
make is both foolish and dishonest
foolish because it envolves you in
endless worry !; dishonest because il
makes you unable to pay even Jus'
debts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
TO the Candidates.

Next Friday the Senatorial candidates are
expected to address the voters Of Abbeville
county at Abbeville.
The Press and Banner would suggest that
the name OF Calhoun be allowed to rest. Alb
beville was the native county Of the distin-
guished statesman who promulgated more
theories that have since been exploded than
any man In American history, and we have
been reminded OF his greatness to a number
OF times that would nearly equal the number
OF public meetings that have been held in
this county.
It may be that Calhoun is authority on
some great political principle, but, as far as
we can now recall, all of the leading Ques-
tons that agitated the public mind during
his lifetime have been settled definitely and
forever against the theories or principles
which we're upheld by the great slave.owner.
But, even admitting that he was the great
est man that ever lived, and that his states
manship was characterized by the most clear
sighted sagacity and the most unerring
judgment, are we never to have a rest? We
have heard OF Calhoun, and of the lesser
lights that shined in this county forty years
ago, until we are sick and tired OF the parrot
like speeches that can recognize nothing IN
the manhood of the living, and that can say
nothing Of the issues that present themselves
to-day.
We are tired of the rule of dead men.
We are tired OF idiotic hero worship.
II an orator is nothing OF himself. he will
hardly gain much by attaching himself as a
barnacle to the corpse OF those who ought,
with their laurels. to be allowed To rest.
We are so tired OF hero worship.
The whole head is sick, and the whole heart
is faint, with so much idol worship.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
TALES OF THE TROJANS.
Tall Fruit StOnes-A Strong Sermon
on Sabbath observation-disclosures
Meetings Baseball - Late But
SnIeY.
Troy .Iuly %. 1891

Troy, July ~, 1897.
Dog days are bringing hot weather. and an
Miss Louise Soloman, in a charming way
c~omplimented her little guests, with elegant
refreshments last Monday evening. Ihere
were Seox IS sb ilttl had a05k del aad sna sim rs S0m'ieh' 10
Mrs. 7, NJ. McCaslan and Mrs. j. B. Ovens
have gone to the home Of their parents at
at Madden's. S. C.. to be absent several weeks:
Miss Fannie Perrin OF. Augusta, Miss
Alma Blyth OF Greenwood and Miss Kate
Whitley OF Due West. are visiting friends.
DIR. and HRS. G. w. Pressly, from Charlotte
N. c., are with the doctors parents at Cedar
Rev. w. R. Earle. assisted bv Rev. Wilken;
son of Anderson, Is carrying on q protracted
meeting at Buffalo. this week. They will be-
g 81 1o here ,bs IN aI 1de sa Esbpilbs'i S en Ausus tn e"'o'uA'
Mrs. ]. f. Wideman Is spending several
days at Cedar Springs.
Dame Rummor says one Of our young pas.
don't go to,guessing as you will not get tired
Miss Bessie Cook, one OF our prettlst girls
spent a few days Mt Downville last week,
sermon, Yesterday, on sabbath Dissertation,
~viz.-Sabbath mails, reading the sunday
newspaper, pleasure riding, and many other
dispensable and sinful ways OF sPending
such good, plain, practical preaching, hear It
every Sabbath. -,
Mrs. Foushe and Mrs. j. r. Bardley,Jr ana
little Mary, nave returned from lIatlrners.
Our farmers are j~ubilant over the prospect
for fine crops.
The Troy Bible Society. drew the largest at
tendance, ever had In our town. A nne ser
mon by the pastor. a good dinner by the can
gregation, and a nice address by the speaker.
one of our boys Mr.. Eddie P. Wideman.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Leard, and little son OF
Augusta, spent yesterday, here with hls
fathers family Mr.. Sam Leard.
Miss Eta Robinson left last week for Wood
ruff. 3. c to finish ner school term.
Mrs Tilda Russell, Mrs. Carrie Parsins, and
Miss Lula Wells from Woodruff, S. O., are
here among friends and relatives.
Our politicians ore Ia such hot combat,
we think they oil ought to be turned OUT
and hired over. 100 much managing and 80
little honor - and no money TO fight about
Judge Cook showed, a circumber last week
measuring II feet long, and weighing ~
pounds, and Mrs. ]. s. Burnett says he didn't
believe IL and said tina the proof of the pud-
ding was chewing the bag. SO he went down
and 10! There was the mainmother clrcum6e
In all Its gigantic stature-But there III
another! Listen One OF our young farmers
says he has a tree of peaches, that the small,
est one can't get In a half gallon bucket, and
he SAYS he is O "Geoge Washington" too
when It comes to truthfulnrss. We believe
we will go and see, 1--we are not doubling any
of this-ha ha ha. NICK
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
The Important Question.

The voters Of Abbeville county should
Legislature. as well as those OF the candidates
for Senatorial honors. II there is a liquor
candidate for either place, let him speak out
II there Is a friend Of the dispensary law In
the field, let him speak.
This Is a time when men should vote more
for principle than for men.
Let the liquor men vote for the liquor can
didates.
Let every citizen array himself in the line
TO which he belongs. and let him cast his vote
according TO his principles.
Let no voter stultify himself by voting
against his principles. Cast an honest vote
as the preachers say, according to the way
you pray.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
SENATOR TILLMAN.
He Talks to the Press and Banner
Some Comfort ON the Post Office
S~ituRtiOn.

He Talks to the Press n
Some Comfort ON the Post Office
Situation.
Senator B.. r. Tillman arrived on the three
O'Clock train over the Southern yesterday af
terpoon and went to the home OF MIR. j. Il.
Blake. He Is looking well, though somewhat
worn by the weather and tstigued by work
and travel.
When asked for an interview by a Press
and Banner reporter Senator Tillman said he
had only to say that the crops we're very fine
and that he was glad TO get back to Abbeville
again. (He was here the first time eleven
years ago yesterday =,
Later, however, the Senator took occasion
to say that he considered the situation In the
State very grave, md that he considered moth
ing Of more importance at this time than the
Asked as TO probable relief by National leg.
islation senator Tillman said he was very
hopeful Of securing the passage of bis bill ito
stop government by Injunction" through Con-
gress next winter.
AS to the interesting topic OF future post
masters, the Senator said bis impression was
that the report now going the rounds that ne.
gro postmasters were TO be appointed In
many of the leading towns OF the State was a
fake.
Further, in connection with the post office
subject he stated that be had been two or
three times assured by the authorities that
70 postmaster would be removed except for
cause.
Senator Tillman Is evidently interested,
deeply interested, In the dispensary and al
his utterances on this question will be waited
for with interest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
Will He Get Charleston's Vote:

At Walhalla the following questions were
put to McLaurin, candidate for Senator:
III you had been governor would you have
put the metropolitan police on Charleston!
Mr.. M~cLaurin-"No. sir, would not" zap
plause.)
Col. Irby-"Ifyou had been governor would
you have taken the police off ~
MIR. McLaurin-"Yes, sir. l would"
This utterance Is important as going to show
Mr.. McLaurin's position as to the enforce.
ment or the notification of one Of the most
important avs ID the statute books.
TO remove the metropolitan police would
have about the same effect that the removal
of State constables would have on the Illicit
sale Of liquor throughout the country, and as
a rule every opponent of the dispensary law
OF temperance, as a rule. are in favor Of q
strict enforcement OF the law.
The declaration of Mr.. McLaurin that he
would remove the police from Charleston
will likely secure to him the vote Of the liquor
element of the City by the Sea.
We are not in formed whether such a decla-
ration as MIR. McLaurin makes against the en-
forcement OF the law will meet with the favor
of the Christian temperance people Of this
section, but we believe that they do not en-
dorse either the overriding OF the law OF the
State, or the in~discriminate sale OF liquor.
1t may be that Mr.. McLaurin does not wish
to lave the foreigners OF Charleston to defy
the laws OF their adopted country, but it
looks that way to this newspaper.
Charleston having boosted that the State
could not enforce the law in that city, the
gauntlet is thrown down. VIII the people OF
the State surrender to the liquor element OF
that city? Are the outlaws Of Charleston 10
become the guardians Of our morals and our
sobriety?
The tariff dwindles into insigni6cance
when compared to the morality and sobriety
of our people.
If Senator McLaurin should be elected he
may prove a stumbling block in the way OF
men, who hold the sobriety Of our people as
OF the mos: vital importance.
1t seems TO US that Mr.. McLaurin's speech
In reference to the police, ssvors OF a dispose.
ton to so back on Governor Ellerbe. who
gave him the appointment which he now
holds.
The Press and Banner Is not authorized TO
speak for anybody, but we do not think that
any catering to the liquor element or any
friendship to the law-breakers will benefit
any of the candidates.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
Hard on Missionaries.

The finding OF much gold In the region
around the head.waters OF the Klondike
River in Alaska is attracting thousands OF
miners, adventurers, spectators and green
horns" thither. The hardships unavoidable
feared that few persons would attempt to I'm.
dergo them II the journey were to secure the
salvation OF their sou ls.-Christian Neighbor.
We are apprehensive for fear that some OF
the missionaries that now go to the Flowery
Kingdom may be diverted to the frozen fields
OF the Klondike. 1t would be hard on mis-
siouaries ii they should be induced TO look az
ter the souls of miners in the plains OF the
Klondyke.