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"Wanted-a sturdy, steady man
M anp IN. 90 All

"Wanted-a sturdy, steady man
or any age at all
One who can handle heavy weights,
And help TO lift and haul.
Color or creed will matter not:
He need not read nor write;
We work the union eight-hour day
With double pay at night.
Experience we'd like. OF course.
But any man who's strong
GA laborer is what we want)
Could qualify ere long.
To put this man TO work at once
Our foreman We empower,
So please report, prepared TO start
Al 90 cents an hour"
And lo! A little further down,
The advertising page:
Wanted AN Office man with brains,
Past thirty years OF age.
clever correspondent--one
Who is not prone TO shirk.
And Will not feel himself aggrieved
When asked 20 do night work:
man OF some experience,
A college man preferred,
With quick Intelligence endowed,
And by ambition spurred.
The highest reference we
Require-the man we seek
Wen gladly pay salary,
To start. OF twelve week"
Beatrice Barry In New York Times.
-O---
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Gaffney Roll call. Members pres
ent: Shells. Nelson Axelson, Meis-
ler and Klesges. Minutes OF previous
session read and same approved.
Moved by Shells and seconded by
Meisler that the reports OF the direc-
tor OF the city poor for the months Of
March and April be accepted as read
and same placed on file. Ayes: Mel
son. Shells. Axelson, Meisler and
Klesges. Motion carried
Moved by Klesges and seconded b.
Nelson that the bills be allowed as
audited by the auditing committee
and the city clerk be instructed to IS
sue orders for same.
Aya. Shells, Nelson, Axelson
Aaat.to.. .oa lglaopaa Nation carried
The diamond drill., 1918-04-27
April u.s. 1918

An adjourned regular session of
the common council Of the city of
CRYSTAL Falls Michigan was called %
order on thc above date al o'clock
p. nm by lho mayor the Hon J. u
The diamond drill., 1918-04-27
Disbursements Charter EIec.

Chester Nettle Inspector - ZOO
Aug Pucta. clerk ........... 400
NJ j. Shells. clerk .,......... 400
Thos Penglase, clerk ........ 400
Fred pfciifor. clerk ..,....... 400
NJ J. Shells booths .,....... 200
ThOs Penglase, services ..... 200
Robt Munns clerk ......,.,.. 400
Dan DAWSON clerk .....,,. 400
w r. Urban, clerk ..s...... 400
A. T.. Axelson. clerk .......... 400
Louis Meisler, clerk ......... 400
w. ]. Bosanko. inspector ... 4.00
c. Il. Jackson. clerk ......4. 400
w X. Dawson. clerk .......,.. 400
Matt Hurja. gatekeeper ...... 800
r.. =. Hollow. commissioner 49,. 400
A. A. Metcalf. commissioner. 400
ID. M. Ross. commissioner .... 400
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street Pay Roll Flrst na.i Anil.

John Bauer & Son ........s 673
Total Disbursts April ...... $2,525. .26
Moved by Axelson and seconded by
Shells, that the regular meeting be
adjourned Carried
w j. GRIBBLE, City Clerk.
Subscribe for The Diamond Drill.
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y. A. Sutter ..........s 2.9f
Am. Express Co. ....... 2.l5
Holllster Mining Co. ....... $50
G. +. Coop Soc. ......... 100
Modern Iron Works ........ 1915
Marshall Wells Hdw. Co. .... 1861
Electric Appliance Co. .... $40
Western Electric Co ...... 5.5S
Greusel-Quarfot Elec .... 1907
Central Electric Co. ........ 22.50
Julius Andrae & Sons ...... SOC
Diamond Drill ............... 1875
Wills Hdw. CO. .......... 325
John Bauer a. Son ........ 5.0t
The diamond drill., 1918-04-27
Pay Roll First Half April.
Disbursements Council Exp.

-J ]. Gaffney. services ........$ 1000
Louis Meisler, services ...... $500
Axel Axelson, services ....... $500
Thos. Penglase, services ...... $500
NJ. j. Shells, services ........ $500
Knud Nelson. services ........ $500
John KIesges. services ...... $500
Leigh Caswell. services .... 5000
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in the sacred yards. You will, however, dis
cover the money-changers' little Offices,
places about three feet broad, just across
the street from the mosques. The glass
case wherein queer coins are displayed,
usually with an American paper dollar
forms the counter behind which the petty
banker sits. On both sides of him arc little
shelves of cigarettes first, second and
third qualities, marked at one price and
needless to say, sold always for more Since
the war began little gold even silver
money has been seen in Constantinople;
but in the days before 1914 one could 20 to
the money changer with any sort of gold
and pay from one to four piastrcs for cx-
changing it, according to the size of the
silver coins wanted, more for small change
than for large. And, furthermore the
money changer was open to bargaining
even as the rug merchant. If YOU Euro
pean, should lay down Turkish sovereign
he would give five piaatrcs short in change
and take an oath that his commission was
as little as any ono would charge; yet if
you started TO leave without making the
exchange he would drop his price til he
got your coin. This changing Of money
represents a tremendous and profitable
business, expensive alike to the unfort-
innate people and the state. Money changers
are more numerous than bread shops.
Plenty of good, clean fruit is to be had
in Constantinoplo. 1t is brought to the city
largely by Turks from farms near and far
The baskets in which they bring their
melons, grapes and angola pears arc of
such size and weight as a packhorse car
ries. Yet twenty-mie walk for these men
is nothing. Summer and winter, rain or
shine, these market men, in garments of
brilliant color patched like Joseph's coat
tread their way to the city, to remain per-
haps week, or until every morsel of their
produce has been sold. Meanwhile they
live by little else than bread alone, the
making of which in Constantinoplc is left
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And once more, as she was starting up
stairs, Muriel cried out: There he is againn
Nothing more was thought of this Incl
dent until little later, when Che widow of
j. Q. A. Ward sent to Dr. Bull a photo
graph of the sculptor that he had auto
graphed and left for his friend some time
before his death. There had, however,
been several months delay in the delivery
OF this picture, which was now given Il place
OF honor in the doctors apartment.
Il should eXpain here that Muriel had
never seen the sculptor. 1t was, therefore.
with profound emotion that the doctor wit
messed what happened when his little Girl
hrst saw this photograph. She had just
returned from school and came running in.
when she stopped abruptly as she caught
sight of the new picture.
Why, papa she exclaimed. that was
the man who was standing in the door
way.'
"A remarkable part of the story is that
TINS photograph of Ward Il have seen it
MYSELF shows the sculptor in his working
clothes with blouse and tasselled cap hold
ing under his arm a diminutive model of ,
horse used in one Of his equestrian
statucs,'
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Different trades incline toward different
mosques, though in all recognized places
for trading you will find the vender of
glass and sandalwood beads, which every
Moslem, and many other Levantines, carry
and keep counting when they argue trade,
mediate, or merely idle away time You
VIII find, too, the barber. whose equipment
consists Of stool, razor, basin for
water and bar Of soap-scissors being dis
pensable. since most of his clients follow
the fashion of shaving their heads Then
there is also the bootblach or rather the
row of bootblacks, sometimes forty to fifty
IL line. In Turkey one is expected TO
Keep ones boots clean in spite Of the dust
or mud in the roads. The bootblacks in
variably promote trade by blocking the mar
row pavements with their boxes, thus driv-
ing the pedestrian into the roadways to bat
tie for passage with packhorsc hammal
(porter) and vehicle. There is no place like
Turkey for the small trader, who may, with
out license, block the pavement where he
viii.
"In the niche in the mosque wall or in
deep inset window close to the ground
cross-legged, perhaps pair of spectacles
upon his nosc-is a person distinguished
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perch on the fountain where the faithful
wash and continually nuttor.ovcr the heads
of tho people. With the outlay of couple
Of motaliks at a grain stall maintained by
endowment from pious Moslems you be-
como the centre Of attraction for some
thousands OF these birds, which, making no
distinction between the faithful and unbo-
levers, descend upon you immediately
like leaves in gale OF wind Some settle
on your hat and few take a survey from
your shoulders; Others more bold, pick the
grain even out of your hand.
1T would be incorrect t., say tHat they
arc only small traders who have their place
Of business in the yards Of the mosque
Small merchants could not afford TO pay the
pittance which the mosque exacts for
ground space. There are unon the streets
of the city mon who strive TO make liv-
ing selling toothpcks. and others who sell
glasses of water. But it is true that there
are few traders among the Mosems whose
shops are bigger than the mosque yard tent.
The sweetmeat shop and the cafe would
seem to be the height of the Turks ambi-
tion in trade. | do not know of Turkish
restaurant in Constantinople, unless the
few khans where food is served can be
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Sp0oks

4 MONG other strange tales of &C.
cutism Cleveland Moffatt, in "Mc-
Clure's,' relates the following, which
was told to him by DR.. Titus Bull. a
New York physician:
"Dr. Bull was a friend of the distjn-
gulshcd sculptor j. Q. A. Ward, and some
time before his death the latter, in the
course of an intimate talk with the phvsi
can gave earnest expression to his views
about tho future life.
II am over seventy years old said the
sculptor and in the natural course of
things have not long to stay here; but |
feel so intense, SO fierce a desire to achieve
more, to realize my unsatsfcd ambitions.
10 use immense powers within me- that |
refuse to admit the possibility that NV
personality or soul can perish when this
cnteoblcd body passes into dissolution
Know | shall continue to exist. And as
YOU, my friend, share this conviction. as
yon have for years laborod as a scientist.
STRIVING to penetrate the mysteries of a
future life, solemnly promise that. if
dle before You and the thing is at all pos
slple Will give you plain evidence that
the soul exists after death
Ward died within the next wear and Dr.
Bull waited expectantly for some fuflment
OF the promise; but weeks passed and thoro
was no sign or communication from his de-
parted friend. Then came an extraord;-
nary happening The doctor was in thc
liV'ng room of his home one evening with
MS wife and little daughter when suddenly
the child (she was eleven years old OK.
claimed:
Papa, there's man standing in the
doorway. Look! He has a horse under
his ARM
the father and mother looked at the
doorway, but they could see nothing.
Absurd!' said the doctor. How conld
man have horse under his arm?'
Murlel' you'd better go to bea.' chidcj
the mother You must have eaten soma
'hine for supper that didn't agree with
you ''''
But, mother, man is there' insisted
'"e enid. lie has OH queer little skull
cap with tassel. Don't you see him.,
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above the mass, man Of letters. Before
him stands little desk for holding papers
and a book or two, wooden pen, an ink
bottle and some sand for blotting In writ
ing, however, the sage rolls the paper upon
his finger, after the manner even of the
Grand Vizier, requiring no other rest for
letter or for arm
Such conversation as this, | surmisc,
frequently takes place the letter
writer's table:
From whom p asks the wise man, seat
ed. The women who have presented a let
ter stand humbly before him.
"'Our husband, Effendi.'
"'Most beloved of my wives, commences
the dattering reader. 4 am we'll. | wish
you we'll. The weather is we'll The
cattle are we'll. Here pausinc a
moment and studying the paper closely, he
inquiries: What is your husbands name p
"'Almoon, Efendi.'
"'Ah, yes, Almoon Your husbands
writer does not form his characters WE'LL
satisfied, the women pay two metalks
and depart.
Some weeks later they return with an
other letter, and similar questions and an
swers pass between them and the old i'm
poster. But when they appear before him
again in still few more weeks the crafty
fellow recognizes them and Immediately be-
gins to read:
My beloved wives, l hope you are we'll
l am
But, EfTendi,' the women interrupt him
gently, this letter, we thought, was from
some one else; our husband has returned
Ah, you should have told me sol! The
scribe looks at them reproachfully so re-
proachfully that they murmur an apology
and depart
''You never sec the money changer in the
grounds of the mosque. Maybe the reason
is that few Turks demean themselves to
this profession, and Christians and Jews do
not often find places among the Moslems
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mother. Not more than two u.eeLz
fore my visit mob of peasants-wo1ren.
iris and children from three surrounding
-illages-broke into our orchard and for
Aree consecutive DAYS stripped the trees
OIL apples The very day Of my arrival the
gardener came to my mother ard told her
shat her cabbages had been stolen from tho
garden Such lawlessness oppressed my
mother. She did not wish to violate the
principles which my father had held and
preached, therefore she was unwilling to
summon the police, the only aid to which
she could resort. All this troubled her
greatly.
The material side of life has other dif
fculties for her also. She had enough
wheat to last only few weeks. She is not
able to buy it in other places. because of
new law in Russia that does not allow
transportation of wheat from one place TO
another. Although her household is not
large still she feels obliged TO maintain
some OF her old servants, who have been in
the house for more than thirty years She
cannot dismiss them because they are
bound to our family by mutual love and al
tachment
and 1--we IN the city, but she fears TO do
She fears to leave this HOUSE, where every
tnlng Is full of the memory of her great
husband. SO she remains there as faith
ful guard over his rooms, his library, and
his relics. All this is precious not only 20
her and our family, but also to every Rus
sian.
While | WAS speaking with my mother
my sister and aunt entered the room. The
conversation then became general. When |
told them WAS on my way to America they
all envied me. They asked many ques-
tions about my last visit to America. IN
Russia, where row there is such p c'>sas
OF IDEAS, of political parties, and such a
cons ,anty changing current of thought, the
organized and orderly life of America seems
TO be Vaattainable and unbelievable
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After Forty
Y ears

COUNT ILYA TOLSTOY recounts in
" "1he Century Magazine" incidents
of his last visit to his mother, at Vas
maya Polyana, before he left Russia sew
cral months ago to come to this country:
Ny mother was waiting for me at the
top of the stairway. Although seventy
tour years old still she is in good health,
active, erect, with hair not entirely gray
~ knew that you would come, and was
expecting YOU she said in greeting me.
DO you wish cup of tea?'
Yes l answered.
The same large samovar that | remem-
Der for forty years was boiling on the table.
Nothing had been changed | felt that
everything has remained as it had been for
forty ye@FTs- The only Gilfe-w~cs gas that
the door leading to my fathers rooms was
closed, and felt that it would never open
that never again would see in it's frame
the form of an old man dressed in long
gray blouse, with large, gray eyes looking
from under thick and dropping eyebrows.
hlS eyes were so penetrating that it was
impossible to stand his gaze for any length
OF time always felt that he could see the
depths OF my soul. ! could see his eve.
looking at NE now from Repin's portrait Of
MN. Still, they are not quite his. No
orush IN the world could paint the living
power Of those eyes.
The life in Russia at the present time Is
very dlihcult for every one, including my
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and destroy, his own reflections upon the
universal devastation he has provoked. his
own perception Of the impossbility of his
being readmltred to the fellowship of ma
tions while he remains Identified with the
seven devils that possess him, will be the
necessary prelude to the change of heart
that would make forgiveness and restora-
''on possible In this process of the spirit
ual redemption OF Germany, hatred of the
wrong and the wrongdoers is necessary
factor.
The impossible pretence of loving the
spirit which is expressed and embodied in
the deeds we bate is a sickly and sickening
sentlmentality; it is, to return to Emer-
sons phrase, the gospel of love pulling and
whin'ng,' and therefore it needs to be coun-
teracted by the doctrine Of Just hatred"
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-. Keeping Up On the MAGAZINES

asked for a great deal of substitution of
one commodity for another, but this year
we must have direct decrease in the
food consumed. We have so great a mar
GIN IN our unnecessary consumption and
waste that we can accomplish the Allied
food programme without approaching any
where near privation. There is what is
We viii not have to get down even to this
margin. We will have what we USUALLY
refer to as the comfort necessity and
stll be able to carry through next year.
II means the greater elimination of waste:
and by waste we mean not only the de-
tailed waste in public eating places and
households, but that caused by eating be-
tween meals and eating the fourth meal in
a day, and many other little habits of the
American people, that in the long run
amount to huge quantities.
ITS easy enough to take one lump of
sugar when you've been used to having
two. It's easy to do without steak or roast
beet at certain meals and have something
else instead. It's not so hard to cat vic
tory bread. It's going 20 be a lot harder
to make an actual reduction IN the amount
that's eaten. Our problem is simply to OK
PLAIN tho need for doing it and to devise
ways Of making it as easy as possible 10
do It, The American people will do what
ever they have to do, when they know tina,
dong II is necessary and when they know
how TO do it,"
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TO discuss, because with Germany nothing
can be discussed. With Germany a treaty
cannot be made because the signature of
the Emperor or his ministers to treaty
is worthless. Any bond agreement or
covenant made by Germany is without
validity. Germany has repudiated her
treaties and publicly declared that they
mean nothing to her. To go through the
form of concluding convention with Ger
many would be idle. Germany by her own
acts by her contempt for the opinion Of
mankind, by her defiance of international
law, by her savagery, lust and cruelty has
placed herself outside the pale. There let
her remain.
feat Of Germany or the defeat Of the Allies
and civilization in the dust. The Allies
VIII not be defeated and civilization will
not be destroyed. The war will end when
Germany, her armies annihilated or broken.
her resources exhausted, the spirit of her
people shattered, sues for peace. She will
have to ask for peace because she cannot
longer carry on the war. She viii come as
a suppllant because it is impossible for
her longer to fight. She will fight TO the
very last, the Emperor and his fatuous adj
Nlsers, the junkcrs and the militarsts the
hrupps and the other proiteers making
huge fortunes in money that has 10 value
scraps of paper merely-will drive their
"retched slaves to the slaughter, and to
the last man they will be sacrificed while
enc Kaiser and his devils brood keep
themselves from harm But the time will
comet is coming fast now that millions
oi Americans are pouring across the At
lantic, and British and French arc fighting
as IN all history no men ever fought before
when the armies Of Germany will be
merely skeleton armies. and the men and
women of Germany behind the lines will
be gaunt skeletons, dying Of hunger and
disease, incapable of resistance
when that time comes what have W. "a
discuss with Germany? What decent man
tngllshman or American, Frenchman or
Italian, brown man from India or hlacl,
man from the Congo, can so far forget his
self-respect as to sit at the same table
with German, regard him as an honora
bic opponent and proceed to discuss with
him the terms of peace? We repeat there
is nothing to discuss. for discussion is
impossible. All that is necessary is for
the Allies to say to Germany: Here arc
the conditions we impose. This is the
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HERE are some significant para
graphs from an article in THE
Atlantic Monthly" by Horace j. BRIDGES;
Hatred, within the limits of the purnose
of ending this and all war-hatred for
the very sake Of the better nature buried
under the demonism of the enemy-is not
merely tolerabe, but is our bounden DUTY.
For the circumstances are such that our
only chance of contributing to the release
OF the true and better self of our enemies
is to make manifest to them the immiti
gable anger provoked in us by their deeds
and by themselves as authors of those
deeds. Such hatred is quite distinct from
the blind lust of revenge, for the reason
that It's end Is not the mere inAiction upon
the enemy OF such savageries as he has
perpetrated upon others, nor is it his
humiliation. The end is such physical
victory over him as will render him i'm
potent to pursue the course that has fred
the world with just hatred; and, to this
end, the infection upon him of so much in
jury as that end itself necessitates.
When the wild beast has been Gagged 50
that he can no longer burn poison, rape
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largely to the Greeks. They sleep some
times in the open and sometimes in the mis-
cradle khans, or caravansaries, where
shelves are fixed in tiers round the walls
never, of course, taking off their clothes
though washing feet and faces as often as
they pray.
There is no moro crowded yard than
that of the Yeni Djami Mosque, whose steps
rise almost from the end of the Galara
Bridge, on the Stamboul side of the Golden
Horn Here a hundred or more tcnt-like
umbrellas, each fifteen or twenty feet in
diameter, protect the sellers of boots and
clothes from rain and sun. Shoes, old and
new, arc the spccaltcs of this particular
mosque market. Here sit the cobblcrs. who
patch worn slipper while the soldier or
the Vclcd woman waits, and the shavon-
headed butcher, whose mutton and sides
of beef, no longer to be seen in war times,
hang high from cross of wood and drip
blood into the mouths of hungry dogs.
The yard of st. Sophia does not repre-
sent native market, since it is somewhat
off the main roads Hero besides the coffee
shop the traders wcrc chiefly those who
prcycd upon tourists, selling them SOU
vcnlra, gcnc'ally Turkish carthenwaro and
beads, and sometimes fezzcs.
ut is almost impossible in the morning
hours to get into the picturesque inner
yard of the Bayazid or Pigeon mosque be
cause of the assembled multitude There
are soldiers and civilians of Albanian,
Macedonian, Tripolitan and other bloods,
in all manner of costumes, all endeavorjns
by argument to keep prices up, if they be
sellers, and to work them down if buyers.
Eunuchs and men and yelled women. free
and slave. are here. And since this is
better class market, seals, with which men
sign their names, Persian sweetmeats and
rare Oriental perfumes arc on sale, as we'll
as ordinary wares and produce. The count
less descendants of pair Of pigeons pre-
sented to the mosque by Sultan Bayazid