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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
COMMENT AND OPINION.

rTThe real trouble with Grover
Cleveland is that he Is the victim of a
bad case OF ingrowing free trade
Cleveland Leader.
r1The kind of bimetallism in which
we do not believe is that which really
means silver monometallism, The 9TH
err kinds of bimetallism are all right
Iowa State Register.
rTT'he silver element In the senate IN
trying TO form a combination TO beat
the new tariff bill. They know that
prosperity will be fatal TO their hopes
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
civilian Jennings Bryan magnan-
imously remarks: 81 am willing that
the new tariff should have trial" The
field being thus made perfectly clear.
Why should congress delay any longer
the passage OF the Dingley bill?-Chica-
go Inter Ocean.
uT"The position taken by the demo
cratic party in 1896 will not be sur
rendered." says Mr.. Bryan. II he
speaks for the party, the republican ma
jority In 1900 will be larger than IL
was last year. Organism is dead Is
sue.-Amsterdam On. ~ Democrat.
DWhy should Grover Cleveland com
plain about the republican congress
changing the tariff law? lie wasn't for
the present law. He denounced IL as
perfidious and refused 10 sign Il. He
hadn't the courage TO veto II, though.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.).
r1While Mr.. Bryan was racing about
the country jolllfying over the munich
pal election results In Ohio, Chicago and
New Jersey. the Omaha voters went 90
the polls and piled up big republican
majority. Mr.. Bryan should play
closer 10 his Washington Post.
r1"why should the treasury Of the
United States be compelled TO supply
gold for private enterprise ?" asks sill
YER organ. Why, indeed? And yet
whenever IL Is proposed TO take the
government out OF this business the
silverites have fits.--Louisville Courier
Journal (Dem.).
uIEx-Vice President Stevenson says
that the next president will be real
democrat This is too vnglr. What
kind of democrat IL n "rcal dcmocrat?"
There arc at least four distinct divisions
OF emocrats-Bryanites Clevelandites,
i-Bryanites who are not Cleveland
ties and. anti-ClevelandItes who are OPP
posed 10 all three cs rho other clcmenta.
These days when man is said TO be
democrat the country needs plans and
specifications in order TO "place" him
st. Louis Globe-Democrat-
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

The styles of a season are never COM
plete until some means have been de-
vised by which a surplus OF material
can be slowed away without any par
ticular use except TO look pretty and 70
be in fashion. In other words, design
ers must please the manufacturers OF
stuffs as we'll as the women who are TO
adopt the costumes designed When we
got rid OF the big sleeve, although we
sighed at the parting, we consoled our
selves that at least we could get along
without quite so many yards of goods
as we used to buy. This, however, has
been but short-Iived consolation, for
the absence of material from the sleeve
has been compensated for ten times
over by the advent of the plat.
Accordion plaits have invaded every
article of wearing apparel known TO
woman. Starting innocently with dress
skirts, they have progressed through
myriads of capes, bodices, parasols, and
even jackets, to the realm OF underwear.
One would imagine that plated under
wear would be- rather too bulky for
comfort; but the fancy is French, and Is
therefore carried out in the daintiest of
materials. Nothing but the finest
batiste or mule is used, and this is SO
soft and thin that IL il were not plated
il would be inadequate protection.
The very prettiest thing in under
wear is the plated empire chemise. 1t
is made 20 wear over the corset, and
serves not only as corset cover, but as
inside lining for all sorts of thin dresses.
which, in their turn, may very possibly
be plated. IL also serves as n short
petticoat.
One of the prettiest patterns have
seen is made of soft batiste plated onto
broad band of heavy lace insertion.
which serves as yoke. There are no
sleeves, but ribbon strap and bows in
stead, by which the corsage may be
raised or lowered, according to the style
of ones dress. Near the bottom of the
skirt is another band OF lace insertion,
which is plated in with the rest of the
material. Accordion-plaited drawers
have also been designed which, with the
addition Of chemise and petticoat, give
one the appearance Of a stage dancer
of the modern type.-Philadelphia
Times.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS.
A Few Notes Concerning Matters Gu
Iinnry.

Remember that ii is n culinary sin to
cut lettuce. 1t should be shredded with
the fingers. Nor should it be sent 10 the
table dripping with moisture. Wash it,
lay it on a napkin and gently press IL
dry with another.
When sour milk is 20 be used In cook
ing a few vigorous whisks with the egg
beater in the bowl or pitcher will mix
the curd and whey so thoroughly that
IL can be poured as easily as cream; and
will also obviate the unpleasantness of
finding the cakes or mullins interspersed
with particles of curd. Soda used with
sour milk should not be put into milk
but be sifted into the -four like baking
powder.
Not every housekeeper knows the diff
ference between an infusion and a
decoction. Probably that is the rea-
son why so many of them make tea,
which should be infusion, decoction
instead. An infusion is made by pour
ing boiling water upon the article and
letting IL steep without boiling. De-
coctions are much stronger and are
made by allowing the water to continue
TO boil.
Now that everybody Is eating fresh
eggs, remember that one of the nicess
ways TO serve them is boiled in the shell.
Select those OF uniform size; wash
them; have the water boiling and put
them in. Set the dish containing them
where the water will keep hot, but will
not boil, and let them stand five min
utes. The whites will not be hardened.
but will be jelly-like. Little wire bns-
kets, in which TO put the eggs, and then
plunge them in the water, are n con-
venience, as they may be instantly lifted
when done.--Detroit Free Press.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

A Pitifai Exhibition OF Political De-
pravity.


No gold democrat who has complained
that rhe republican party has 'be-
trayed" that element by proposing fur
Their tariff legislation. has yet produced
copy of the contract or bargain that
Is supposed TO have been made. If there
was betrayal" then of course such a
document must be In existence. There
must have been some bargaining and
trafiicking, otherwise how could the
goldites be betrayed?
Yet IL seems singular that persons OF
the superior virtue which the Cleveland
ties profess to possess, would dare de-
scend TO bargaining and trafiicking with
the avowed and open enemies of their
party. They have affected to be the
very incarnation of political virtue.
They have mounted their pedestals and
invited the world to regard their in
comparable political virtues. They have
pointed TO one another 10 remind the
public that they alone are fit and COM
petent TO govern. When the control Of
their party was taken away, they organ
lied an open revolt, and now because
they cannot rule the republican party,
they complain grievously that they have
been betrayed" and are not receiving
the fruits of their revolt and treachery.
1t does not seem to occur TO these inn
maculate creatures that they are maxi
ing pitiable exhibition of themselves
IN whining over their alleged betrayal"
they substantially confess that in re-
voting against the nomination of Mr..
Bryan they were not solely intent, rs
has been assumed, on promoting the
cause of honest money, but were en-
gagged in an effort 10 perpetuate n sys-
TEN in which they are deeply interested,
but which has worked havoc to the most
material interests OF the land.
Behind their professions of devotion
to the cause of honest money. IL is now
seen there was a stealthy effort TO pre-
vent a return to the system of protec-
ton. This Cleveland clique of alleged
sound money men was more concerned
in boosting free trade along than
in anything else, and the assump-
tion that the republican party consent
ed in any way 10 such proceeding is,
positively, the most grotesque assump-
ton that has yet been made by that elc-
ment which is now becoming farcical in
our politics.
The reason. then, that no proof of the
bargainr-no evidence of the betrayal"
is forthcoming, is because no evidence
exists. 1t is preposterous To assume
that the republican party ever even con-
templated falling in with the schemes
and the plans of the Clevelandites. II
the latter are victims of self-deception,
IL may be said that this is not the first
time they have Rugged delusion TO their
bosoms. But they can delude them
selves in secret hereafter, for the Amer
lean people have no further use for
them.-Albany Journal.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

Tm greatest fortress in the world Is
Gibraltar. The height OF the rock is
over i,4oo feet and this stupendous
prcoipice is pierced by miles OF gall
lerics in the solid stone, portfolios for
cannon being placed at frequent inter-
walls. The rock is perfectly impreg. n
BILE To the shot OF an enemy, and, by
means OF the great elevation, a plung-
ing lire can be directed from an enor-
nous height upon hostile feet
From the water batteries TO a distance
Of two thirds up the rock one tier aft
err another OF cannon is presented TO
the enemy.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

In addition 10 the earldom, which,
In accordance with arrangements al.
ready made, the queen Is TO confer mp
on Mr.. Gladstonn's youthful grandson.
the real owner OF Hawarden castlc-of
which his grand parents are only life
tcnants--it Is asserted that her maies-
~ will further signalizc the sixtieth
anniversary OF her succession TO the
crown by appointing the grand old
man knight of the Garter Mr.
Gladstone has until now refused all
titular honors on the ground that he
wishes W go down TO posterity under
hh own name and as great com
moner.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

Increase ...e0 II Decr'se. co s
The figures are taken from the Finan-
cial Reformer for February. This paper
is published monthly TO advocate eco
nomical government, just taxation and
perfect freedom OF trade" From this
reform" authority our free traders will
learn that, during a quarter of cen
fury of free trade, the British exports
have declined by c As. Adj. per capita
of population OF the United Kingdom,
while their imports have increased by
60 As. lid. per capita, thus making a
total Of CT os. Sd. per capita of trade
balance against them.
Our experience, under a quarter Of a
century OF protection, has been differ
ent. Our imports have decreased by
GO Gs. Sd. per capita since 1s7O-74, while
our exports have increased by GO 0s. Id
per capita, thus making 15s. Cd. per
capita less gold that we must ship
abroad now, from our trade balance
Adding their loss to our gain. IL seems
that the difference between the free
trade and protection policies, as repre-
scented by foreign commerce, is n lose
of CO SIS. Cd. per annum to every man,
woman and child in the United King
dom.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
TRUTHS ABOUT The TARIFF.
what the Wflson-Gormnn Bill Has
Done for the Farmer.

Done for the Farmer.
A great hue and cry was raised by the
democrats in 1892 and 1894 that the
farmer was the one to be specially bene-
flied by 4 revenue or free trade tariff;
that with free wool and free manufac-
tured goods he could buy SO much
cheaper all the clothing for himself and
family. Now, let us see how the Will
son-Gorman tariff bill helped him. /
ask farmer who ruises wool:
What did you pay for a suit of
clothes you bought in 1892"
Answer-I paid in wool at 30 cents
pound?
"How many pounds did you give?"
Answer-Fifty pounds; but In 1895
could buy just as good suit at $40.
"Yes. When you bought suit for
$40, how many pounds of wool did you
give?"
Answer-Well, let's see. sold my
wool for little over IA cents. gave
seven pounds for dollar. and ten times
seven pounds are 20 pounds.
Then you paid just ten pounds moro
wool for your $40 suit than you did for
the SIS suit. Your extra ten pounds at
1896 prices were worth S1.40, and at 1892
prices were worth SO. Where does the
benefit come IMP"
Again, Schohnrie county was the
only county in the state 20 give in 1895
a democratic majority. This is one OF
the great hop counties. ask the hop
grower:
'How many pounds of hops did you
give for SIS suit of clothes in 1892"
Answer sold my hops for 25 cents
n pound-four pounds for dollar. /
gave four times IS, which are co. Yes,
paid 60 pounds.
Last fall your SIS suit, after three or
four years wear, began 10 be thread
bare, and you bought just as good a
suit for S10?"
Answer-Yes.
'IIow many pounds OF hops were e,x-
changed for that suit?"
Answer-WeT, sold my hops for II
cents (that is more than some folks
got) and IL took 90 pounds.
$50 that you had to give the labor TO
raise 90 pounds that you gave for 80
pounds in 1922"
Answer-No, not exactly; did not
pay my hired man so much q month as
l did in 1892.
"Then part of your revenue tariff
was paid by your hired man?"
Answer-Well, II locks that way.
Now we will ask the hired man:
"Mr. Jones. what Is your occupa-
tion?"
Answer-In 1877 went to work in
factory. and In 1882 i was getting So n
day. After ten years-that is, in the
fall of 1892, the factory shut down and
/ was out of job. After waiting and
tramping for six months hired out to
the hop farmer for S14 month, and
glad to get II, for thousands OF factory
hands were out OF employment and
could find nouhing to do.
"When you boughta suit Of clothes in
the summer OF 1892 for SIS, how many
days did you have to work to pay for
them?"
Answer-Seven and half.
"After three years of wear, and you
bought just as good n suit for $40. how
many days did you have TO work fr
them?"
Answer-Three weeks. or. 20 be exact
about It, 21% daysl This extra two
weeks labor that had TO pay in 1896
represented s24 in 1892. which is more
than mechanic would have 10 pay in
percentage on all the tools he would
buy in lifetime.--Letter in N. Y.
Press.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

THK United States can call upon a
greater number OF trained soldiers
than any other country in the world.
Although the standing army numbers
only 1000 men each state has TO sup
port its own militia, and should IL be-
come necessary upward OF 1900, 900
men could assist In maintaining the
independence of tho states. To de-
fend the coast there would be n navy
of some 20 ships, with 10000 men. or
the European armies the biggest Is
that OF France. The number OF men
In the active army and its reserves is
2, $50. 900.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

ALUMINIUM violins are said to have n
richer tone than those made OF wood,
and the inventor states that he has
found in aluminium latest property,
consisting OF tendency OF the funda-
mental TO outweigh the upper partial
tones For this reason means are en-
ployed TO introduce an regulate the
partial tones TO suit the tastes OF the
individual player. Notwithstanding
the strong popular feeling in favor OF
wooden instruments. aluminium in
struments are steadily gaining their
way In musical circles.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

Gradually we excluded foreign ships
from our coastwise trade by prohibitive
tonnage dues and finally In 1917 we alb
solutely prohibited, by law, foreign yes
fels from engaging in any trade be-
tween American ports. The conse-
qucnce of this more than century-old
prohibitive protection OF our domestic
shipping Is that we have the largest do
nestle water borne commerce In the
whole world, our freight charges for
inland water-borne transportation are
lower than anywhere else in the world,
and the magnitude OF our shipping Is
only cqualed by It's utility. It's safety and
It's beauty. Why not do as well by our
foreign shipping7
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

The American ship, builtin American
shipyards, from American materials,
employing American shipwrights. and
then manned by American seamen, car
rying the flag and the products OF the
United States TO the uttcrmost ends Of
the earth, proclaiming the greatness
and the glory OF this nation. Is no less
AN American product or an American
manufacture. and therefore no less en-
titled 10 full protection In competition
with foreign ships. conveying our prod
nets TO those countries. than are other
American products. on the land, which
are subject to foreign competition.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

THERE is popular idea that June Is
the favorite month for weddings and
that the young woman who loves ro-
nance and who wishes fortune TO smil
upon her uuptials in every way must
unromantic fact, however shows that
the three most popular marriage
months are October, November and
December Fifty years show this TO
be true, and also demonstrate the fact
that the most unpopular months are
January, February and March.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

ACCORDING To the latest census OF To-
ronto that city now has a population
years. The city is getting too large to
continue in those good old Connecticut
ways OF eating nothing but cold victu-
ais on Sunday and the people there
have gone to clamoring for street car
service on the first day of the week.
Walking to church is becoming too
much like labor.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

THE period longed for by the advo-
Gates of peace. when swords are to be
beaten into plowshares and spears into
pruning hooks, does not seem to have
arrived in these closing hours OF the
nineteenth century. Since 1890 the
world has witnessed an almost unin-
terrupted scene Of carnage.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

The British government now has un.
der consideration plan for the great
est submarine tunnel which the mind
OF man ever conceived. IL provides for
a passageway, TO be lighted by cleo
tricity, beneath the Irish sea or North
Channel, as it is called, from point in
Scotland just north OF Point Patrick
to point in Ireland just west OF Car
rickfergus and several miles north of
the arm of the sea stretching up TO
Belfast which is known as Belfast
lake. The total estimated cost is s35,-
600. 600
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

OSE great advantage the Turks have
had in the present war appears from
the statements of n German officer.
who makes comparison between the
military ornaments of the two nations.
The Turkish infantry, he says, carries
n firearm decidedly superior to that of
the Greek soldier
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

ENGLAND has several old women who
were born before Victoria and carry
their years we'll. Mrs. Gladstone is
six months older than the queen; the
Baroness Burdett Couts is five years
older, and Lady Louisa Tighe, who
was present at the ball on the eve Of
Waterloo, and Is still hale and lively,
was girl of 10 when Victoria was
horu
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

VIM T. HARRIS, United States COM
missioner OF education, student of
social science, thinks that under mod
ern conditions fewer farmers are neces-
sary and more people are wanted in
the cities TO handle machinery; that
the increase of urban populations is
not disease which needs a cure. but
the natural result of scientific inven-
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

British Figures that Prove the Pres
perity OF Protection.

As many free trade papers have re-
GENTLY acknowledged and explained that
our outflow OF gold was checked because
our exports have been larger than our
imports, we would like them To study
the following little table showing the
result of a quarter of century's export
and import trade, per capita of popula-
ton, in free trade, per capita and in pro-
tected America:
Average Annual Export per Capita.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
ob.tructionist., Tactics.

Apparently some of the leaders of
the late popocratic coalition think that
the passage of tariff bill which would
furnish the required revenue for the gov
eminent and additional protection for
the industries which need II would drive
the silver question out OF the public
mind. In this view they are unques-
tionably correct. Adequate revenue and
protection are the chief needs OF the
country at this time, and when they are
furnished the business rally will come.
Currency reform, now that the exist
ence of the gold standard is rendered
certain so long as the republicans re-
tain power, is less Immediately urgent,
and can be attended to later on without
delaying trade improvement. Anything
which starts up the idle mill wheels,
restores the public confidence and
brings back prosperity must neces-
sarily Danish discomfort and conse-
quently destroy the silver issue. For
personal reasons, therefore, the popo-
cratic chieftains want to delay or de-
feat the tariff. but the masses Of the
popocratic combination, like the rest of
the people, want prosperity no matter
how IL Is restored, and they and the
people in general will oppose all CON
spiracies TO obstruct tariff legislation.
st. Louis obc-Dcmocrat.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
rvUnder the Mckinley bin The Anne

GJUnder the Mckinley bill the Ameri-
can citizens clothes were made OF wool
while under the Wilson German bill
they were made OF shoddy. In 1894 the
imports of shoddy amounted 10 143. 900
pounds, but in 1896 they rose TO 16.77o,-
orc pounds. Free trade gave the Amer
lean workingmaD the equivocal blessing
OF garments made OF waste, rags. rub
bish and off-scourings from the four
quarters OF the earth. Naturally. a
measure g. abolish all this trush and
provide that American clothing shall
be made Of wool fills Mr.. Wilson's free
trade heart with woe and his eyes with
crocodile tears.--Tolcdo Blade.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
Codasb Cakes.

To one pint of carcfully-shredded or
picked fish. freshened TO taste. add the
same quantity or a little less-nevcr
more-of either baked or boiled po-
tatoes. preferably the former. but iRr
either case mashed with mixture of
half pint OF warm milk, butter the
size OF a hens egg. adding two we'll
beaten eggs, after the fish and pota-
toes have been mixed well together;
then mold the well-mixed mass into
either hat cakes or round balls, as may
be desired. Fry In hot lard or cotto-
lene. until heated through and through.
having n nicely drowned and crisp out
side coating.--Good Housekeeping.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15

There are n hundred times in n
mans life when he longs 60 be in posi-
ton TO 90 out and slam .he door and
never come baclx.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-05-15
kingdom

Decrease ....G1 4 Incr'se, go I
Average Annual Imports per Capita.
United United