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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-04-04
PITH AND POINT.

The more you speak of yourself
che more you are likely TO lie. zim-
norman.
Some men achieve justice and
some have it thrust upon them
Chicago Daily News.
The more truth you bring into an
argument with a fool, the harder
he will combat it.-Atchison Globe.
"Nlr. Tiilin is awfully attentive to
that rich old maiden aunt OF his.
Haven't you noticed it?" Eyes; he
believes people can be killed by kind
ness. Town and Country.
yasion,-Mother-"Tommy, what's
your little brother crying that way
fore" Tommy (who has taken the
little fellows cake)-"I guess that's
the only way he knows how to cry,
Philadelphia Press.
Judge-''Yes, the colonel, who is
running for Office, has fine war rec
ord. You know he fought through
the war without a scratch" Fudge
"Well, he'll be scratched enough
when he runs for Office" Baltimore
Herald.
il Would Seem So.-"Marriage," re-
marked the moralizer, SIS lottery"
THAT being the case" rejoined the
dcmoralizer, "alimony comes under
the head of gambling debts and can
not be legally collected. - Chicago
Daily News.
my brother Jakey's got good
job" Where's he working?" Down
TO the electric light plant" ''Pick-
ing currents off the wires?' Eyes.
How did you guess? He says he
likes the job; It's such light work" -
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
MY goodnessln exclaimed the hui
morist's wife, ~ wish you'd clean out
your desk occasionally. What is IL
that makes ii smell so mrsty2"
II guess" replied the hpmorist, its
that leap year joke / thought OF in
1897. and won't he able to use IL until
1904. Philadelphia Press.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-04-04
MAN SLAVES MANY MILES.
Distance Travelled by His Razor over
His Face Each Year II Two
Thousand Feet.

II when You meet your mustache-
adorned friend YOU tell him he shayes
five feet eight inches a day, or over
two-hfths of o. mile q. year, he will
probably accuse you of romancing, but
such is the fact.
The distance a man shaves i'm an
average lifetime, or the distance his
razor travels over his face, will be a
surprise TO most people. II, OF courpe,
differs 20 a more or less extent with
each individual, first, on account OF
personal taste, which determines
whether man wears partial or full
whiskcrs with or without a musthche,
a mustache alone, full beard with
shaven upper lip. a chin beard with or
without mustache. or IL altogether
clean shaver, Gays the Chicago Trib-
une.
Second, if~difrcrs TO a fractional ex-
tent for tie following reasons: The
measurement Of the faces of two in
dividuals is never exactly alike. The
texture OF peoples skins and he
strength of the growth Of hair ON the
face differ just as widely, and IL is the
tenderness or stoutness OF the skin
and the strength or weakness OF
the growth of hair that decide how
many times u man passes a razor
over his face.
In the same individual the condition
Of the skin and the growth Of the hair
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-04-04
TOLD BY THE TELEPHONE.
sons Health Are Revealed
10 the Obseryant.

The telephone reveals ones dispo-
sition. 1t exposes amiability or the
opposite traits in way that leaves
one no chance 10 recover the lost
reputation, states the New York sun.
Persons who suddenly try TO make
their voices soft with amiability
when they have learned who is speak
in, never deceive the nearer at the
other end of the line. IL is the first
answer that reveals the character.
One reason for this attitude OF
mind on the part of the person
called is the interruption at the 9TH
er work 1t often happens that no
or she may be absorbed in something
else. The first tendency is of course
90 answer grufiiy the person who
does intrude at such n juncture. And
IL takes certain amount of breed
ing 10 compose ones self in order
to answer amiably.
Only persons who take the trouble
TO think Of others will make an ed
fort to be polite when they feel in
quite another mood. Thus is the
telephone at the outset test of man
ners.
IL exhibits also the natural dispo-
sition Persons who are always
amiable and in gentle mood do not
show that they are very much upset.
even il they feel IT, by the sudden
ringing of bell, which means that
they are required
The telephone voice may also ex-
press ones physical condition, as
that is Indicated by the nerves. Only
few months ago "A man who had
been for years extremely occupied
by his affairs and devoted only TO
them suddenly broke down, turned
out to be a physical wreck and had
10 retire from all that remained to
him of life. Most OF his friends were
astonished at this sudden break
down.
II knew that he was in a serious
condition long before ne ever con
suited me" his physician said, "and
discovered his condition from his
manner Of talking over the telephone.
mo man who answered in that irri-
tated, peevish fashion could possibly
have been in good health. That
voice showed exhausted nerves and
physique. So | am not surprised TO
hear that he had succumbed entirely
TO oyerwork."
Thus the telephone is measure OF
disposition, manners and health. Its
greatest value lies in the fact that IL
takes a person of guard. The rush
to answer the call generally allows
little time to prepare ones self. So
the real mood shows itself IN the first
hello"
Practice. OF course, changes all
this. Increased frequency in the use
Of the telephone seems in some cases
TO have stimulating effect on the
nerves. The patience of the teie-
phone girls who sit at the booths
and switch boards is a rebuke to all
those who are 50 emotional as to ar
swer telephone calls in q voice that
reveals their characteristics.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-04-04
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vary not only with the health of the
individual but with the temperature
Of the atmosphere, hair on the face
growing much more rapidly and
strongly in warm weather than in
cold.
So on all counts in order TO arrive
at the distance man shaves i'm life
time, it is necessary TO make certain
averages, and seeing the number of
men who wear full boards and the
number who are clean shayen, we may
take as an example of the average man
the one who only wears mustache.
But there is the average fair man
and the average dark man. and il is
necessary TO discriminate between the
two, for the reason that the dark man
is, in the vast majority Of eases, com
PEELED TO use a razor quite year earli-
er than the fair man.
From a multitude OF examples an
average measurement round the chin
from ear TO ear is found TO be 12H
inches. From where the beard starts
on the throat to the chin, and thence
to the edge of the under lip, is AZ
inches. You must reckon that il is
necessary TO give two strokes OF the
razor to each inch or fraction of an
inch in order TO cover all the surface,
and 10 go over each section Of the face
twice in order to secure a clean SUR
face.
SO, multiplying the number Of
strokes by the number of times the
razor is passed over the entire face,
you get the figure four, and four
times the two above mentioned
measurements gives you the figures
OF 30 and 1s respectively. which
added together produce 6s. There
fore, the average man, whether dark
or fnir, shaves 6s inches once every
"A hours.
Vital statistics on the subject Of
the duration Of mems lives are mislead-
ing by reason OF the fact that all who
die in infancy are included. and enor-
mously lower :he average. IL is. there
fore, better TO fall back on the Psalm
lists estimate of three score years and
tenor 20 years-in order 10 arrive AZ
the life Of the average male adult.
With these figures we arrive al the
result that every man wearing only
mustache shaves ZOOS feet inches per
year.
Taking. then. the average life az 20
years. and that the fair man begins
shaving at ~ and the dark man q year
earlier, or AZ II, we have the following
result: That n fair man. II he. liyea
tin he is 20, will shave in this (x.gse
Of his life 20 miles 65i yards -
The dark man. II he lives I'll
will shave in the course OF
miles 1,340 yards 1 foot 3 incl
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-04-04

DR.. Dallingcr describes the
destruction OF spiders by thu
mon fly and by certain was
young Of some wasps can live
live spiders, and the mothefs
therefore, renders the spider
less by her sting after which
live month-and then deposits b
the cocoon where she has laid IN.
egg. On Matching out the wasp grub'
feed on the bodies of the living
spiders. Another wasp deposits he,
egg in the body Of the spider, which
Is then buried alive, and Is fed upor
by the wasp grub.-Nature.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-04-04
Are the Spots on the Sun Inhabited !?
By ALEXANDER YOUNG,
An Indiana Astronomer Who Is Attracting Notice.

The lenses which have been used by me for the
purpose OF observing the solar panorama were con-
vex lenses turned upon convex reflector, which
when constructed into an instrument called com
pound solar microscope with chromatic and achroma
tic regulating power will be available, | believe, to
any vision.
We will row suppose this instrument to be
turned upon the suns image presented upon the face
Of the reflector the inner tube which contains the
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-04-04
Explanation.

One day, when | ilattcred myself
dat I knowed oil about human nntmr',
I cuffed a boys ears an his fadder.
applauded me. DE next day I kicked
a dawg belongin 70 dat same man an
he knocked me down.--Detroit Free
Press,
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1903-04-04
A HIGH-PRICED DINNER.
singular Accident which Befe'i
Diner Who Had "a Roll
OF Money.

The Paris new spapers have lately
printed the account of a strange law
suit which the Green Bag reports for
its American readers. The complains
ant In the case testified that he was
dining on the terrace in front of
restaurant. enjoying the air as well
a. the food, lie had just begun TO eat
his soup, which he found too hot for
his palate. While waiting for the
soup TO cool, he took from his pocket
a roll OF bills which he had received
in payment Of bill.
In counting the money he accident
ally dropped 100-franc banknote into
his soup. He took IL out Of his plate
with fork, and sent the soup away.
The bauk-note was saturated with the
greasy liquid, and he laid IL down on
the tablecloth TO dry.
He was partaking of the second
blew the note of the table. He ran
after il, but dog, which, although
ii wore a collar, and therefore in all
probability had home, yet showed
every sign of hunger, seized il. The
taste of the soup on the paper made IL
palatable, and the dog swallowed the
note i'm an instant.
The complainant used all his per-
suasiye power in an effort TO get tho
dog to come near him. Good doggy.
Come here!" he conxed.
The animal, pleased with the taste
OF the soup, was finally toled ns6M
enough for the complainant to
the name engraved on the collar.
he had made note of the nan
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07

ated, and, eliminating the buzzing tick
ers and the immense blackboard,
which takes up all of one side of the
soom, it might be mistaken by the
novice for the loungiEg room of a city
club.
The blackboard is the important
part of the machinery as it is also the
Earring clement in the rooms repose.
Across it's wide surface run row upon
row of grooves. These are divided
into sections by vertical wooden
strips running from top to bottom of
the board. Close to each strip are
painted the names of all the active
stocks dealt in on the Stock Exchange,
the names running in alphabetical or
der from the top to the bottom o. each
section. Sufficient space is left after
each name to permit the insertion OF
little wooden blocks bearing numbers
from one to ten, with fractins.S by
means of which the quotations can be
instantly changed.
The first number is usually the Clos
ing price of the previous day. The
others show the present days fuctua-
ton. The blocks are changed from
time to time as a telegraph operator
calls off the variations.
Inc customers race Cn1S DOdTu anu
follow the swift changes carefully. A
closer scrutiny shows the papers and
magazines in their hands to be only
such as record the news affecting rail-
road and Industrial corporations. AS
each block is slipped into place anx-
ious eyes peer at it, for it means an
advance or decline in the stock and
in the fortune of the holder thereof,
and under the calm exterior of the
watchers there is a tempest of anxiety.
The tempest bursts out at times. A
mans face goes ashen: he rises weak
| ly from his place with a faltering
word, Good God!" and stumbles to
the door, unseeing. A moment later
and the little block that ruined him
IS swiftly changed to one which would
have saved him II his margin had held.
1t is a different scene in the smaller
bucket shops. The paraphernalia is
similar, but on a less elaborate scala,
| and the frequenters present, in their
own parlance, a less elaborate front"
They are essentially "pikers," and
| their fever is not at all intermittent.
Here come a swarm OF clerks. small
| tradesmen and the host of waits who
have been submerged in the vortex of
Wall street, and cast up again for a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
Automobile Sea Scouts.

As military motor bicycles have al
ready proved themselves to be of value
in scouting it is probable that in near
ly every civilized country they will be
largely used in future land warfare
Why, if the fast land scout prove so
useful, should not the navy adopt the
same methods? A boat, sixty feet
long, with two twenty-five horse power
engines, built very light, to carry, say
four persons, and to be capable of con-
siderable speed, would be most use
full addition to battleship or a fleet.
The ordinary torpedo boat is too long
and draws too much water for scout
ing near shore or in shallow water,
but a launch might be made to draw
less than three feet of water and yet
have a speed of upward of thirty
knots. There would be no tunnels or
smoke to attract the notice of the en-
envy, and with underwear exhaust the
boat might be made almost silent If
built low in the water or with the
power of semi-submersion, it would be
difficult for the enemy to observe, and
still more difficult to hit Probably
such a craft would be more useful than
anything yet invented in the way of
a scout for sea purposes.-London
Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07

long enough to see Space rush to the
phone and hear him order 1000 M.
o. P. The chosen few search through
ragged pockets, one who has lost his
silver piece through neglected hole
curses the malign fate that robs him
of this chance of wealth and watches
in sullenness the more fortunate hand
over to the manager their pool
money.
Missouri Pacific railroad stock goes
up, or down, you know not which, nor
care, but the countless thousands who
pour out from the buckctshops know
as they stumble. sometimes home,
through the darkness, and tLey care
acutely.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
WOOL AND TARIFF.
Higher Prices and Increased Prodss4
TIA. Under the DingIey Law.

6fQner Prices and increased ProoU&
tt.n Under the DingIey Law.
"The wool manufacturing industry
in the United States Is In q highly
fiourishing condition. This Is the
situation as described in the annual
wool review of the National Associa-
ton. Of Wool Manufacturers published
in the current quarterly bulletin of
the association. We are now living
under the Dingley tariff act, which &C
corded special protective attention to
the wool growing and wool manufac-
turing business, and credit must evil
IDENTIFY be given to that tariff for the
present state of the manufacturing in
dustry."
The above concession. from the
Springfield Republican is welcome
indeed, but still that paper is not
happy. for it continues:
What of the business Of wool grow
ing under this tariff law? First, it
is to be conceded that the grower en-
Joys higher prices for his product.
Chic Xxx washed wool now rules at
twenty-eight and half cents a pound
against twenty-six and a half cents in
1901, twenty-eight and a half cents
in 1900, thirty-one and half cents in
1899 and Twenty-Five and half cents
in 1898, but against nineteen cents
during the three years in which the
Wilson tariff act Gree wooD was
operative. This rise in price should
have stimulated wool production
greatly, but it has done so only mod
erately, and the domestic output of
wool still falls short of what it was
ten years ago under the Mckinley tar
iff act, and bids fair not again for
the present to reach those former fig
ures. The product of the current year
is placed at BAG, 341, 900 pounds,
against 259, 153, PSI in 1897, at the end
of the free wool period, but against
348, 53S,138 pounds in 1893, the maxi
mum production recorded under the
Mckinley act"
An average of Twenty-Five cents a
pound during the Dingley tariff, as
against nineteen cents a pound un-
der the Gorman-Wilson tariff, and a
production of 100000 pounds
against 259.0OO,o0O pounds, would
seem to answer the Republican 8
question: What of the business OF
wool growing under this tariff law"
But still the editor is unsatisfied be
cause we have not yet recovered all
that we lost. He forgets that it is
easier to tear down than to build
up, and that it may still be several
years before we fully recover from
that disastrous wool period. If in
certain sections wool growing has
been to an extent abandoned 1t is be
cause of more profitable products. Their
| as Secretary North OF the Wool Manu-
| facturer's Association says, the high
| price of meat has offered the farmers
| an inducement to kill both lamb and
mutton so that the supply has really
decreased per capita instead of in
| creased. But we do not agree. witt
| Secretary North that we are not goins
to have a domestic supply equal te
domestic requirements, conditions are
not yet normal. But we are glad tt
note that since the close Of the in
surrection in the Philippines the
Springfield Republican is studying
economic questions with no little in
| telligence.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
Unforfu17ates Who Bet
In City Bucketshops
Form Of Gambling That Carried Under the Cu<se Of
Irsde-Ezabi0es Feverishly Watch the R1ackboards
Which Tell Of Their Investments"

The customers are rampantly fever.
ish. They trade ON margins which
are wiped out by point moves and the
insertion of fractional blocks is fol-
lowed by long drawn "ohs'' or '-ahs'
that are pregnant with meaning. It
Is gambling in it's nakedest form. All
know that the shop has no exchange
connection; that their orders are real
ly "bucketed," that is merely recorded
on the sheet that Is the holy OF holes
In the bucketshop. But it costs them
little to take the chance and all are
confident that they can draw their elu-
sive profits before the shop shuts up
for good.
They form in little groups around
the older or the loudest mouthed of the
habitues and listen attentive,y to his
golden words, little knowing even
little caring. that he is secretly on the
payroll of the shop. The tips the
thing. and his may be as good as an
Others They pay Difference to the
manager of the shop, and when on the
rare occasions that the reputed pro-
prietor descends among them they al
most kowtow. For he owns a palace
uptown, has the fastest horses on the
Speedway and opens butts Of wine in
the big Broadway cafes.
The waits are the pitiable ones in
the changing crowd. Some of them
are able to borrow enough from
wealthy friends of former days to buy
a little, and they hang over the ticker
and scan the board with staring eyes
and drawn faces like things plague
stricken. They are wiped out and
stumble from the place to the street,
where they cruch whole nights long
over the gratings of the skyscrapers,
from which exhausted steam issues,
only to crawl back with day to take
their place among those who eat the
bread of bitterness and are suffered in
the place because of former times.
1t is little step from this to the
dens. The waits come here at last
and mingle with the messengers and
1aborers. One man is proprietor.
manager and office help. He writes
the sheets and sweeps the shop by
turns. The customers band together,
contributing a quarter each, usually,
and bet with the management that a
certain stock will go up or down.
Here, too. the tip is all. A messen-
ger rushes in and whispers to chosen
few. He has just delivered message
to Space, the big operator, and tarried
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
STRUCK AT ENEMY's CREDIT.
How Boston Man Got Even For /;
Fancied Injury.

TduCieo injury.
Illustrative of the fertility of re-
source possessed by some men is the
story told of one State street man who
must have had in him his full share
Of Indian blood.
Jones w. Jones, a man of promi-
hence and affairs, aroused the ire of
the State street man. What it was all
about is not recalled; but the fnesse
displayed by the Indian In getting his
revenge is wildly remembered The
Indian must have been hit pretty Sc
verely in pride, too, for his revenge
was as unique as it was aboriginal
The Indian called in a trusted lieu
tenant and bade him go to every bank
and financial house on tn street and
deny, with as much vehemence as he
could command, that the house of
Jones w. Jones was in bad order. The
lieutenant executed his commission.
and so effectively, that before the day
ended the floating paper of Jones was
at perilous discount
His credit was actually badly affect
ed for some time-and the Indian ex-
ulted--Boston Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
SALES oreatsr Than tho Population =

Sales orezter Than the Population a.
Three Great States.
Population Of Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska combined not SO great -
the sale of Single Binder cigars and
ether brands of the Lewis factory
during 1902 (Internal Revenue
Count: cigars sold, $500, 800: pouu-
lation of Missouri. 3.106. 665; popuIs-
don OF Kansas. 1.470. 1876: population
Of Nebraska. 1.06s. 539; total, 5,6l5.-
$50. The Lewis Single Binder Fac
tory. Peoria. Ill. sold lis. 3o1 more
cigars than there are people in these
three great states Greatest years
sales In the history OF the Lewis Sim
gle Binder Factory. Reliable quality
brought the business
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
HARD Work Always Wins.

81 have faith in volition- I believe
that, by means of a s.4ong will, a
person, not physically or morally in
capacitated for a particular pursuit,
viii eventually succeed in the voca-
ton, to obtaining excersnce in which
he or she has ret himself or herself
with all his or her soul and strength
do not believe in failures-acciuents,
of course. always excepted-in the
case of those who work hard, indefat-
igably and hopefully-G. A Sala-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07

When it is proposed to cut a duty
on hosiery, gloves, knit goods and
the like for France and Germany to a
figure where the cheap labor in those
countries engaged in these industries
can cause their importation in such
quantities as to interfere with home
production, while we get no real ad-
vantage in return, that is not reci-
procity; It is giving away a good
thing for nothing. We will get no
markets of the world" by such an
arrangement with European countries
indianapolis Journal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-02-07
Were Too Strictly Honest.

A curious example of the reward OF
excessive virtue is the case OF certain
British pickle manufacturers who have
been making their pint bottles hold
Z little more than a pint, to be on the
safe side Of the British law. When
these pint bottles arrived in Canada
they found that there was a law in
operation which provides that any
package measuring more than a pint
must pay duty as quart!