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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04
eIMErALLlsM AND BRYANIsM.
The Froe siIverites Fear nm Int6rna-
tionnl Agreement.


II there is anything that dfsturbs the
Bryan silver men more than the sight
Of prosperous goldbug, IL is the fear
that the republicans may be able TO do
something for international bimetal-
lism. When President Mckinley an
nounced his plan to induce the great
powers to join with us in putting silver
upon the bnsis OF sixteen TO one, not
merely here, but everywhere, the Bryan
men became wild-eyed and wrathful.
They denounced the move as n trick
quite reprehensible enough toll have
come out of Wall street. Later, when
the president named three radical silver
men as monetary commissioners to Eu-
rope, one OF them being ex-Vice Presi-
dent Stevenson, a supporter of Bryan
In the late campaign, they assured each
other with much profanity that they
were being bunkoed. The report that
the commission had been given sub
stantial aid from France enveloped
them In gloom; and now, ir the face of
the news that Great Britain has ex-
pressed an entire willingness TO go into
a new conference, they are divided by
paroxyisms OF wrath and dependency.
They feel quite as badly as the gold
monomctallists do, though, as there are
more OF them they make far more noise.
What the Bryan men want is to cure
the patient with their own silver pre-
scription and TO prevent any other sill
yer doctor, especially the one called,
from treating him even with the same
kind OF a remedy. They are not so anx-
ious to have the patient get well as
they are 10 have the credit Of making
him well. The patient himself is not
considered, except as an object lesson
In their own skill. Thus in all the COM
ments upon the favorable outlook for
n silver agreement, we find the Bryan
practitioners smiling and jeering. One
might suppose that they regarded a
plan to make n general instead OF To-
cal cure the vericst quackery were not
their envious natures so well known.
II all the friends OF silver would turn
in and work for international bimetal-
ism IL is not indispensable that we
might get IL within the next two years.
Perhaps we may as IL Is. In that even
we shall hasten TO express the hope that
the Bryanites will not move out OF the
country In disgust-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04

j. PfERPoNT MORGAN puts 500 in the
contribution plate every Sunday morn
ing, and has given 81 100000 10 tho
New York Lying-in hospital His
benefactions are said TO reach $50, 900 q
year. Peorge Peabody's fad was the
promotion Of education. His gifts
amounted 20 more than $4,000, OO0
Asa Packer had the same fad, his bene-
factions amounting 10 about 81 500, 900.
He founded Lehigh university.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04

A HOSPITAL has been opened In Lon
don for the treatment OF wounds.
ulcers md kindred ailments by oxygen
gas. The new method OF treatment
was suggested by the Zulus. When
they are wounded they climb an emf
hence and EXPOSE their wounds 20 tho
pure air OF the mountain tops After
the Turco- Russian war a was noticed
also that the invalids sat with their
wounded limbs bare on the deck. Scicn-
tihcally developed, and with the addi-
ton of oxygen-one part OF oxygen 10
one part of purified air-that Is the
principle now adopted az the oxygen
homo.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04

convincing as to the effect of protec-
ton upon our foreign commerce than
all the figures which the free traders
can produce regarding the operations
of the past year or three years.
Charles ID. King.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04
THos. coNLIN, Editor.
Tnr ohiect OF tha new hnme for

The object of the new home for
working girls just opened in Denver,
Col, is to give comfortable quarters to
young women who are working for
such slender wages as * or S. n week.
Furnished rooms are offered for only
o. month. There are pleasant recep-
tion rooms. TO which all working girls
are freely invited; and the home, which
has 81 rooms, has already IS inmates
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04
The Price Of wbent.

With wheat quoted in New York al
e2k cents per bushel on the first day OF
this month (July ~ as compared with
the Grover Cleveland price of GsIs cents
on July 4, 1898. II looks rs II the good
old protection times had reached ms nj.
ready.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04
PROLIFIC PARENT OF DEFICITS.
Free Trade Papers Proof Against the
Wilson NH.

The prolific parent OF deficits Is con-
gressional extravagance.-Journal OF Conn
merce and Commercial Bulletin. N. Y.
Why not prove il so by your figures?
We quote them from the same article:
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04

ouT hNtIhRt uhlludl tN ptuulNuIt uui-
ing the first three given years, as above,
was 1854, 624 ,657. This was during the
republican policy of protection. But,
from 1895 TO 1897 inclusive, under the
democratic free trade tariff our eX-
penditures averaged $35s, 060,s60 year
within S40,0OO,O0O year OF the same
amount
The final column of our table, how
ever, shows that there was a surplus of
revenue, averaging $16,5O0,OOo a year,
for the years 1891 to 1893 inclusive. But
during the democratic administration
with its free trade tariff, from 1895 TO
1897 inclusive, there was an average de-
ticiency Of sos, SOC, 900 year. The pro
life parent" OF these democratic deficits
was not our congressional extrava-
gance," which was within S4,o00,000 n
year Of the same amount under free
trade as during the three years of pro-
lection. But the prolific parent of
deficits" under the democratic admins
tration was its free trade tariff with a
revenue averaging only 1920, 100000 a
year, as compared with an average reye-
nue. of S27s, 100000 underthe republican
tariff for protection. The figures are
taken from the same article in the Jour
nal OF Commerce and Copmercial Bulle-
tin which made the utterly false state
ment that "the prolific parent OF
deficits is congressional extravaganza"
The statement should read: "Democ-
racy is the prolific parent Of deficits"
as proven by the figures above quoted.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04

The new American tariff bin will Yield
2oWo.mo sterling OF additional revenue
BANGKOK (Siam) Times
We hope that this prediction from the
orient Is undcrcstimatcd.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04
30 Dnuht Ahnnt n.

There can be no doubt whatever that
the American people favor a protective
tarin.-Nonkers On. - Statesman.
None whatever,
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04

OIf this slump keeps on silver will
soon be SO free that man will not pick
u up II he sees a lot OF 81 lying in the
street.-Cincinnau Commercial Trib-
une.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-09-04

Osilver seems TO have Jumped out of
the balloon without seeing whether the
parachute ropes were In good working
order or nots--Chicago Times-IIernld.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
SUICIDE FOR SCIENCE.
Doctor Bleeds to Death Asking
Another to Take Notes.

Atlanta, Ca, Oct 14-One physi-
clan watched another bleed to death
in the Hotel AragOn under horrible cir
cumstances. The man who died was
Theodore Todd Monroe, of Union, S. c.,
a doctor, with a large practice and rich.
The solitary spectator was Jerome Go
ing.
The two came to Atlanta to consult
physicians regarding DR.. Monroe, who
had become a slave to morphine.
They sat talking in their hotel room un-
til late at night. One of the physicians
suggested that if ever a physician in
tended to commit suicide he could make
the performance of lasting value to the
profession by doing it in the presence
of fellow practitioners.
DR.. Monroe retired, but had been in
bed a moment until he called DR. Going
to him. The latter saw the bed cloth
ing stained with blood, and, pulling off
the Sheets found that DR.. Monroe had
severed arteries in different parts of
his body with keen-edged pocketknffe
The injured man looked at his friend
with a smile and said: Now take
notes" Then he closed his eyes and
passed gradually into unconsciousness
DR. Going worked with all his
strength to save the life of his friend
but failed. DIR. Monroe died twenty
minutes after he had used the knife.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
DEVILS AUCTION FLEES
Whole Company "Lights OUT
From Texas Fast as it Can.

st. Louis, Oct. 1.-THE yellow fever
situation in Texas and the quarantines
against Galveston and Houston by the
other cities and towns of the state have
played havoc with theatrical companies
playing that circuit.
Monday night 49 women and seven
men composing Yales's Devils Auc-
tom company, arrived in the city,
making tremendous jump of $40 miles.
Their railroad transportation cost the
manager little more than 81, 100.
In Texas they found it difficult to
move because of the rigid quarantine
They played Galveston Wednesday and
Thursday last, and Houston friday
and Saturday. Sunday there were cases
OF yellow fever in both these cities, and
one after another the Texas towns got
to putting on quarantines.
Rather than see the company tied up
IN some little one night Texas town or
in detention camp the manager ship
ped his people to St. Louis. Here they
VIII lay OFF for two weeks and then go
on the Memphis and Little Rock cir
cult. They will play at HavIin's thea
ter a week in March.
Speaking of their Texas experiences
Colby said: We had a tough time
getting out Of the state because we
had played Galveston and Houston. We
left Houston Sunday afternoon with
out any dinner. Until we got to the
very borders of the state we found
were unable to get a thing to eat, and
it was a hungry and disgusted lot of
performers, with nothing but the rag
to chew for "a hours.
AT Palestine half a dozen guards
stood on the platform of the depot,
armed with double barreled shOtguns
Each guard took a coach, and, with
guns pointing at us, we found it impOs-
sible to leave the train to get food, and
no one was allowed to enter the train.
At Palestine and several other towns
we We're forced at the muzzles of the
shOtguns to keep all the doors and the
windows clOSed.''
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
SAME STRIFE AS HERE.
The Iowa Odd Fellows Have a Fight
Over an Orphans, Home

Cedar Rapids, Ia, Oct. 14@The odd
Fellows of Iowa took under cOnsidera-
t1On a few years agO the adViSa bility
of establishing a home for Odd Eel
lows orphans in some city in the state.
but the dispute over it's location has
aroused such feeling that it may not be
built.
After the matter had been discussed
at several grand lodge meetings the
grand lodge solicited propositions from
cities desiring the location of the Home
Jefferson, IndianOla, Boone, Mason
City, Clinton and several other cities
submitted propositions at the next
jefferson offered lands, buildings and
bonus if the Home was located at that
place. IndianOla also submitted a good
offer. The jefferson proposition was
accepted and a committee was appoint
ed to close up the deal
This committee, however, made a
modified demand that jefferson guar
antee free education to orphans. Iowa's
educational laws are not subject to Odd
Fellow authority, and in this demand
the committee exceeded it's authority.
School boards are chosen from year to
year, and one board cannot limit the
lawful actions of it's successor The
sitting board of directors was in favor
of free education, and Greene lodge of
Jefferson offered to procure, or did
procure. bonds to guarantee free edu-
cation of the orphans, so far as the
grand lodge was concerned.
At this time IndianOla came in with
in question at a fictitious value. The
committee selected by the grand lodge
to close up the deal with jefferson,
without any authority from the grand
lodge, entered into contract with IN
dianOla- jefferson thereupOn secured
injunction pending the meeting of
the grand lodge.
The grand lodge, in session at Mason
City, by vote of four to one sustained
jefferson and again decided the home
should be located there. Then Indian
ola secured an injunction pending the
sitting of the sovereign lodge at In
dianapOlis. That body has reversed
the action of the Iowa grand lodge and
decided that the Home should be loca-
ted at IndianOla.
The grand lodge of Iowa will meet at
Davenport October IS, and at that time
the matter of the location of the Home
will again come up. There will be bit
ter fight, and the probabilities are that
it will be decided to abandon the build
ing of theHOme altogether.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
NOBLE CHRISTIAN PREACHERS

Among the New Orleans refugees
now in Atlanta, Ca, is Mr.. T. K. Ogles-
by. Speaking of the epidemic of the
yellow fever at New Orleans, Mr.. Og-
1esby said to the Atlanta Constitution
reporter: Times like this in New Or
leans always test the qualities of phys
icians and preachers especially, and it
is beautiful to see how both classes,
without a single exception that I know
of, are responding to the test. A num-
ber of the preachers were away when
the fever broke out but they at once
returned to the city and commenced
going about doing all the good they
could among the sick and suffering.
Many of them have never had the fe-
yer. and one of them, the Rev. Beverly
Warner, rector of one of the most prom
inent Episcopal churches, was stricken
down shortly after his return, while in
the midst of his very active and useful
exertions in cooperation with the
health authorities in the fine fight they
are making against their insidious foe.
He is a gentleman of fine literary cul-
ture and an active agency for good in
many directions. I am glad to see that
the latest news from him represents
him as doing well. In one of the form
er epidemics that afflicted New Orleans
the pastor of a Presbyterian church
there was urged by his congregation
and his physician, on account of his en-
feebled physical condition, to leave the
city. He told them he would rather
stay with them and die with them and
among them than to leave them and
live. He stayed and died. The spec
tacle exhibited by the preachers there
today shows that there are many 9TH
ers like him. and that peace has its he
roes no whit less glorious than those OF
WAR
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
THINGS HAVE CHANGED.

Those persons who are desirous of
the retirement of the greenbacks must
necessarily experience considerable dis
couragement from the existing fnan-
cial situation. Not only is little or
none of the national currency going in
to the treasury but strong efforts are
being made to get out what is already
there. Some millions of paper money
which has been deposited in exchange
for currency certificates have been
withdrawn recently.
The demand for silver in exchange
for god has been so great that the
treasury officials have declined to make
any further exchanges unless it be in
fractional currency, alleging as a rea-
son therefor that there are barely
enough silver dollars now in the gov
ernment vaults to cover the outstand-
ing certificates.
To be sure there is an abundance of
silver bullion which might be coined
for the purpose of meeting the demand
but that course does not seem to be in
cOnsOnance with the governments
financial policy. If the coinage of sill
yer dollars were resumed now it is pos
sibIe that the greenbacks in the treas
ury might be kept there and that gold
could be accumulated in a sufficient
quantity to render unlikely a necessity
to issue bonds to maintain the reserve
for many years to come.
Even as matters stand the yellow
coin is piling up in the treasury vaults
and the accumulation has almost touch
ed $780, 600, 600. 1t is predicted that it
will reach 16O millions by the end of
the month If it could be exchanged
for other forms of currency the horde
would increase still more rapidly.
been paid in greenbacks are now paid
in gold. In spite of the fact that the
governments cash balance has been
declining rapidly, until it has reached
S211 OO0. 900. and the further fact that
the deficit in the revenues amounts to
$32 000, 600 for the current year the gold
continues to accumulate.
Nobody wants gold now. Any other
kind of money is preferred by the busi-
ness world. Nobody is objecting to
greenbacks unless it be the politicians
and those interested in national banks
With the latter it is purely matter of
business. With the government notes
out of the way the circulation of ma
tiOnal bank currency would be extend
ed.
AS if in aggravation of those who
advocate gold money alone, and fear
full, the yellow stream continues to flow
from Europe. 1t is estimated that
O,OOO 600 will come over before the
end of the year.
The impetus which so large a sum
will give to business is certain to still
further increase the demand for cur
rency more suitable for every day use.
The outlook for the enemies of the
greenback is far from encouraging.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
TOUCHES A WIRE AND DIES
Louis Smith IS Years Old Electro
cuted in Chicago.

Chicago, Oct 14.-Louis Smith, Is
years old, who lived with his parents
at AL Wentworth avenue, was electro
cuted last evening while playing with
an incandescent light in the subway
under the tracks of the Rock Island
road at FOrty-fourth streets.
As Louis reached up and placed his
hand on the carbon in the lamp his s.
year1Old brother Gustave watched him
with great interest No sooner had the
boys hand came in contact with the
lamp than he fell to the ground dead.
Gustave turned the body of his brother
over and when Louis failed to speak in
answer to question the younger boy
ran screaming to his home, and his
father and several neighbors FASTENED
to the subway. They found Louis body
lying in the roadway directly under
the light. The fingers on the right
hand were burned, showing where the
electric current had passed.
The father, with the assistance of the
neighbOrs. carried the body to his home
and the police at the Englewood station
were notified. An examination showed
that when Louis touched the wire he
stood with one foot on an iron railing
and the other upon the damp ground,
thus forming a ground circuit.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
BACKED BY A LOTTERY.
Italy's Plan for Raising Money to
Conduct a Fair.

Washington, Oct 1.-THE postoffice
department has received data regarding
the general Italian exhibition to be
held in Turin next year and invitations
have been extended for further Amer
lean exhibits. The executive committee
has announced that the most note
worthy feature is the special standing
of some of the exhibitors including many
first-class firms who will construct ex-
pensive plants, mostly in the electricity
and mechanical industry department.
Rome and other municipalities will
join in the affair. Italian colonies in
the Argentine republic. Brazil Egypt
and Australia Will contribute exhibits
and all foreign builders may show their
machines or mechanical appliances in
the ''galleria del Lavero'' if set in work.
ing order by an Italian firm. A nation
al lottery for the benefit of the exhibi-
tiOn with large number of prizes has
been sanctioned by the promoters.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14

likely it is to be known as THE Pal
ace"
Some people are so worthless they
can't build wood fire.
in a woman, the people discover that
he is not as old as his appearance has
indicated.
When boys go fishing, and begin
throwing rocks into the water, it is a
sign that they don't believe they can
catch any fish.
Why do women think that little
waists are becoming? Everybody
knows that a waist is a deformity,
like a Chinese wOman's foot.
If a justly indignant father gave his
son a spanking half as hard as the
quickly an indignant people would rise
up and mob him.
AS soon as Fitzsimmons whipped
COrbett, a certain proportion of the
people declared that he couldn't do it.
A good many people still believe that
Mckinley can't beat Bryan.
The woman who is in it up to her
chin will wear birds head and at
least a dozen wings on her hat this
season The women are so smart:
Why don't they help to solve a prob
lem by wearing rabbits heads in their
hats? Rabbits are becoming a great
pest, and some inducement must be
found for getting them killed. Is
there not also some part of the snake
that could be made an article of fash
ion? Snakes and rabbits are a pest,
but why should the woman pursue the
birds? There are not too many birds
in the woods
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
VIEWS OF C. t. YERkES.
Impressions of Foreign streetRailway
Systems.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE arrival of
Charles T. Yerkes in New York after
an extended visit in Europe is chroni-
cIed, and, in view of his important con-
nectlon with local street railway affairs
an effort was made to secure from him
an interview on his plans and the con-
dlttOn of his stocks
Mr.. Yerkes made an extended tour
through Ireland, Scotland, Holland and
France, inspecting the street railway
system of the various cities. He was
for sometime in Paris and London and
other OF the large cities, and made a
thorough examination of the street
railway system in Glasgow, where the
plant is owned and operated by the
city.
Regarding the success with which
the municipality is able to conduct the
trainWays. Mr.. Yerkes said:
4 found what 1 had always believed
to be true-namely: that the street
railway facilities and service in Glas-
gov do not compare with those in the
principal cities of the United States.
"All the American companies give a
much faster means of transportation
and their cars afford more comfort
than the city of Glasgow gives. Be
sides this the fares are cheaper on this
side, and our lines carry passengers
farther on one fare than those of the
old country.
I am firmly convinced that England
or, in fact, any other country, can give
us no pointers on successfully operat-
ing street railway systems. This is eV-
AdGAINGd Dy the LdiCl lIldl IIley are mod
cling their lines after ours, and some
cities are employing our cars and mo-
tors.
The trolley is now almost universal
ly used in England and on the cOnti-
nent, probably fOur-fifthS of the cars
being propelled by that means. They
have some lines operated by storage
batteries, but that system SENS Meth
er to be satisfactory nor economical"
Regarding the new underground troll
ley system, which is being extensively
introduced in New York and other
eastern cities, Mr.. YerkeS said:
The underground system is quite
satisfactory, L believe, in cities like
New York. where the sewerage is good;
but in cities where the sewerage is in
the least particular faulty the system
is impra acticable.
In fact, even where the conditions
are most favorable the underground
trolley is neither so rapid, or otherwise
so satisfactory as the overhead system.
The underground arrangement would
not be practicable at all in Chicago.
You may say that there will be no
change in the present plans of opera
tiOn of the Chicago street railways as a
result of my trip
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
COTTON PICkERS NEEDED.
Oklahoma Farmers Offer Half of the
Crop to Get the Picking Done.

Perry. Oct. 14-Oklahoma farmers
are making great efforts to get cotton
pickeFs. In one county alone the
farmers are asking for 5000 cotton
pickers. Cotton will make a bale to
the acre in many places. Although
nearly all is open, but little has been
picked.
Eighty Sac and Fox Indians have
been induced to go into the cotton
fields, and one chief has become an ex-
pert and picks 300 pounds a day, thus
making from 81 to SO, but it takes all
five of his squaws to pick that much.
Many of the farmers are offering half
of the product of the field to get the
picking done