The diamond drill., April 19, 1902, Image 4

About The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996

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'W-Jf!4 for Mrs. Wand, the landlady,
fTf f . r i lOlU lIlfTll 01 U gOO'l piuCP HJ I1I1U kill UN
nine Camera Tliat ium5 ,,nrs'' aitI th,,y wouM taLe thir
...Gerald Bought
- It was Gerald; brother. Harry.
began it all. 0tuM never thoimht
Cf photographing till Harry wrote from
and p;W that he had given Car
ter Major hi M(.0d best racket and
lalf n rmvn tor Id old niucn,, iw
('.trier's uncle had given Tarter a new
one. Harry went ntj to say that ho was
- I.Kdilny: forward tremendously to going
vtith pater and mater to Normandy f. r
the holiday and that now he w.uld Li
able to photograph all tl Jolly places,
and lie Inclosed his first attempt, tat en
all by himself. It is true that father
thought this was the photograpH of a
turnip field and mother thought it win
a seashore with bathing machines on
it, hut Orald thought how urn ml it
was to be able to make a real picture
like that.
Iiefore long home came Harry, cam
era and all, and the days before he
started for Normandy were spent in
photographing every person, place and
thing, from Gerald himself to the rab
bits and the flower pots. Gerald felt as
if he could have gone on forever help
ing Harry and Dow and then being al
lowed to take one photograph himself.
Hut the days flew by, and noon Har
ry was off for flx weeks, and GeruM
and Kitty, the baby, went off, too, with
nurse, to stay by the sea.
Of course It was very Jolly by the
pea. There was a great big stretch of
nand where one could dig trenches and
build forts and write names In huge
letters for the waves to wash out
again. There was bathing, too. and
paddling, and the rocks nil warm with
the sun, with wonderful pools on Up
of them where anemones opened out
their scores of tiny arms and baby
crabs scuttled away undr the sea
weed. Hut again and again ever so
many times a day Gerald remembered
Harry's camera and longed to be able
to take photographs of all the places
aid persons he saw. It would have
been so j lly to have had a whole lot of
picture to take home Just as Harry
wou! i.ive to bring back from Nor
And
If his i
It ha
hi tn a
being
dinner and picnic there.
Mrs. Bland was right. It was a
splendid place tdte had told them of,
and Iiefore dinner time Gerald, hot
faced, but Joyful hearted, brought the
full quantity to nurse.
That night, with nurse's help, he
wrote his letter to Mr. Georglus Jen
kins and sent off his six stamps t Lou
don. There was a wide day to wait, of
coiir-e. and It si eined the longest d ly
In CitiiM's life, but on the morning
after v.Teti he came down t 1 breakfast
there was a parcel besid ' his plate
sure enough.
"It's rather snail." he said as he
rushed forward to seize It.
"Perhaps it Isn't out at Its full size."
PUgL'ested nurse.
With trembling lingers Gerald tore
i pen the wrapper, and then Weil,
then he very nearly cried with disap
pointment. It was such a funny looking little pi
per thing that was Inside! Not a bit
like Harry's camera.
"It Isn't a camera at all!" he exclaim
ed. "It hm't a 1 't like Harry's."
"There an- d t.iei;t s rts. you know,
Master Gerald," nr.r-e suggested.
"Hut they said it was a real camera."
lie declared, lit I r Inclined to sob and
yet so surprised that he could do little
tint womb r. "They said It was splen
did and would take real ph togrnphs."
"Perhaps it will," said nurse com
fortingly. "At any rate you can try
after breakfast, for I have to go out,
and Miss Kitty w'M go with me. and If
you will promise n t to leave the gar
den you may stay home alone. Cinder
up. Master Gerald, for even If the cam
era Is n client there is another surprise
coining for you today. It Is a secret,
but you will like it. I'm sure."
After trying in vain to make nurse
tell the secret Gerald hurried over his
en one day It really fceemed as
i at wish might come to pass,
ned that nurse had bought
igazlne to read, and, his mind
-I of cameras, his eyes quickly
lighted o.i the advertisement of one on
the last page.
It was a n ost wonderful bargain,
and as Gerald read his heart went
thump, thumj, with excitement, for
there, plainly written down in big
print, he read that Mr. Georglus Jen
..klns of London sold real cameras t
take beautiful photographs for only
sixpence.
In his delight Gerald rushed to nu so,
chattering so fast that she could not
he had gfven her time to read about It. AOER T0 KAC TUE 811 PESSIra-
aho laughed kindly at his eager face. breakfast and rushed Into the garden.
"U sounds very tine, Master uerald, mere ior quite an nour ne puueu ana
pbo said, "but you haven't got six- twisted the silly little sixpenny thing,
pence, have you?" which looked much more like a Jack in
That was a sad recollection. It was the than a camera, and at last, an
hard to face the truth. He had not u Kry, impatient and bitterly disappoint
penny In the world, and even by sav- l'h 1 frit he must try to make a start.
Ing all his money, without buying so Dragging Kitty's wooden horse. Dob
' 'much as a chocolate all the time, he !''. t the step to face him. he Used
would have to-wait three weeks before t'ls camera up on his spade and a cou
twopence a wed would become six- of Mr. Hlaud's walking slicks and
pence. began. He slid In the little pieces of
. How he wished he had not spent the rough glass and tried to pretend he was
shilling his father gave him on that sil- j Harry, with Harry's camera, and tha
ly little boat! U' omrse It av;is a Jolly ! eer. !hing was right. Th.en. putting
e'nough boat, and he had liked taking it i !'is eoat over h's nad. he called nut,
out to sea n he bathed. Hut iiow!"-N'ow, please!" to Kitty's I.bbin,
os ho looki d at it, f:e!etl and serateht d. :md-
he Aou!d b:.e given nnuhing t haei. Wi ' li a r. 1 1 h t: nd a ruruble a
been it i io ,.t it I,:,', in 1 1 place In .drawn i:p ;it the gate. A buy
the toy-h. p v l!.,v and feel bis shil- ! out atnl rati hurrying In to t
(!ng hi h:' 1 ; ! I t'.gure with Its le ad urnl. r i!e-
"Ob. I i' t hae It, nttrse, I nitist!"! "Hello. Cei-ry. old I .. .'" ?
1,0 said ;i t- -v in...i :iK letlec- t.'itihing the yonng ph.t..
jiuli. V, : a I do t i get -ixpeiieeV hearty slap en t he back.
I wi -a i i:1: ' '1 la y my b -at. I With n shake and a Jump
don't v ;'!;! . ! r.t t i;e ranieia." 'Ir ea im ra. a nd out a me I
"Mis K!:-y !.-;.'.;! ;.ll h r money, , nu ll r the ioat. '
. too," said i.iire. "Hut don't be In such ! "Harry!"
a hurry, ! ir. L.-t im have time to j "Wc Just come, old man Pater j
think." I i t.il mater wanted to be h'.ine a week i
"i'.-,.j!lo think, nurse! Think hard - ; .'arlier. Here they me. ail of them!" j
8a hard us ever you can and quickly j In another minute father, mother, j
tell me some way." 'nurse and Kitty and all were in the
He fore ry long nurse had thought j yarden talking and laughing together. I
bard enough to have found a way by j md Gerald's camera and his dKap-J
which Gerald might really earn the , ( ointment were b..:h forgotten in the
money. She reml'ided him how often Incitement it ml Joy. I
' In the vint r. v. hi n pi.ixSi.g game. ' Later . a t i ral.i ?..:d 1 lac: y all :d out
they had to cnllect old buttons and j t.
'thing'' to get enough to play w Hit. Gcr- "It's n Jolly cheat, old chap." declared
old remembered It, too, but he did not ' Harry. "Hut ticer mind. I'm to have
$ce I'0-'" t i ' otdd help him. 'a new one on my birthday, father says. .
"Well." said tmrse, "if you will llntl 'so I'd planned to give the other to you. i
pLirae of 1hee little yellow shells, such ! Let's hutr.i up and unpack it. and you j
, Vou picked up yoterday. all alike, 'shall p'i,.t .graph I.l,l,!n after all."
ta that they w id do for count' rs. I will Ther" nenl to tell tltiaid to
tjvf. jou a penny fur every twenty." ! hurry. Within half an hour Dot, bin's
" (jeraM squealed with delight and j portrait was taken, and Mr. Georgius
1 -.itu ly united to hear the end of j Jenkins' camera lay unnoticed on the
, t1,;rsi ofTer. he as in s.n d a hurry to ! ground. L. ijulller Couch In Casscirs
l'.ln. I he neat was lelt, no tiing m n i.iuie i oiks.
. ti c m..'g..id:ie v. as h-ft di.ng down - -
ij, sand. Kitty was hit to play
ab had
Jumped
he small
oat.
.. . ! .e 1.
aphef a
i r u
,ld fr-
V e. :ud Gvr;;!d ji,. t 1 t.b- ;t as If his
H Ve vere glued to the roiiltd. eager to
' ' .i ,. ,1, ...s. ..I. .. ...1,1,1. ,i un
flfil "e" ' l"-nilies tUll II numil f
CKh X-
1lt ilrst twenty sliells were not so
.ry lrd to fm.h'lle had them tied In
j. v.ir.d kerchief btd'ore an hour hat!
r'J,cc(d. The pity wns that then it was
; .,l? t) ' to dinner, and nurse would
t i,t Mm go without, although he
. , ...v .1 ery hard.
' C'i. ',0 llunted for those, little
r -yv shells! Nurse -was very kind In
,;'.. t!ag far along the beach that he
..';' t eek in fresh spots. Hut not on
,v was npie to earn me ix.
Indeed he had otdy twt pence
r In h! to( kit when bed 1 1 mo
lrrr rin-.i-A t...r..fiil ruerf liir.
MA
I'.tjon.
I T'l a li:: .',..r.; nii',
Kit h ilr so Kr.iy atiil i:lo"y;
On" ar mood up. 1 ho ottur down,
Whlih m.iit' 1m r look quite n.nicy.
Wtilrlifvr way I wlshi-d to go.
The ollitr way "Aftit IMlmi.
Whic h trirtki s a follow awful mad.
If antoJy c-s you.
()ni 1.iy w wrnt alom? ttio tiach.
A-ilrlvtnir o'er th jn t.t.l. B,
Anl It I Jon lir--ti; we.l lotnl anl long
In tnjii an I In trrlilos.
Hut whrn I w?Mitfl to ko tiomrt
Th donkey wouM not tu'lkr, lr;
It srm. an If nhe rrUly ha. I
AKalnMt mo quite a KruI ulr.
Wh-n I ha Id, "('." hf only t.ilkel
And ten ko l rkht la th v. tt-r.
The mornj'n ihH: Ion't rmion with
X braying donky's rl on-v, t r.
Oi.vu I'n.a'.'jn.
; coprmoiiT. nr imkollve wetueiiell.
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Ah Grim had a toothache severe.
It cauied him to act rathsr queer; " '
In the wood quite alone
He'd retire to moan A
With a blanket tied under hit ear.
Ah Grim had a keeper named Jack; '
Expedients ne'er did he lack. , t
Said he, "Come, my boy, '-.
The folks you annoy;
Let's have the bad teeth out ker-smack!"
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Am
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MA'fV
improvlnsr on the old pl.in?"
"Yen, he ast me, but there ain't no
better way'n the way I've allera done
It. Kvery umlth diw it that way.
'Taln't the ih(i's; it's the feet. If a
horse ia tender, he's temler, an' that's
all there Is about it. May make some
differenee who makes the shoes an
puts Yin on, but that's about all as can
be dne. I iveknn. I'm counted ns K'"d
a s:nith as any In the country, an' t
don't mean trr take a back seat fer no
body." Tle lad stood silent for a moment
and then uked, rather timidly:
'Tut her. will you let me tdioe the
itijulre' horse and do it In my own
way V
"Now. what sort o' a fool do yer
take me fer? I'o yr think I'm koIu'
ter let yer try some o' yer crack brain
ed experiments on the 11 nest borne In
the place? Not much: A line mess I'd
et Into with the K'lulre. I don't want
no more o' yer help than blowln' can
give till yer Kit more sense, an kin
pay attention ter yer work. Take"
Just then a clantf and clamor outside
caused the man to drop his totus,
fiprttiff toward the door and, without
another word, tear down the village
Btreet as though, possessed, for the
Hound had been heavy strokes upon a
hujje Iron triangle, the village tire
alarm, and John Si ..cum was n lire
man as well as blacksmith.
It was fully three hours ere he ap
peared at the forge, and meanwhile
Ned had Been anil embraced his oppor
tunity. Scarcely had the clanging engine dis
appeared down the dusty road, follow
ed by nearly every man, boy and dog
In the place, and each adding ids Item
to the hubbub, when Squire Baseomo
rode up to the smithy and, dismount'
lug, led a flno bay uorso through the
doorway.
"IIov are you, Ned," he said to the
lad, adding: "Where's your father? I'm
In desperate need of him at once."
"Father had to go with the engine,
Squire Bascome, but I guess he'll be
back noon."
"If he's back in two hours, he'll do
well. That barn of hay on the hill up
yonder is burning Tike mad, and they'll
have a lively time to keep cither things
from burning, too, or I'm much mis
taken. But I've got to go over b)
i Squire- Baseonie Um
face before him. anc
which he wat never
m;
ivilieu lie ueei s
nade him nay:
"Yes. io on. FII tr
'.e turned upon his he
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shop
Five years later Ned
perfectly the hole In wl-
placed, for the square cd::i
had been s:n oothly rounded
to which he h:ul clung so i's
while a 'prentice lad I tore u,
ftult. It w .is nothing but a
ding of India rubber, placed
ly between the Iron hofsesho.S
r . . i I... I. ...... l i-
u inn i hm oi iu- liui.-l- ix-ioiei
liter was nailed on. Fven by
piece of sole leather he fount
was a saving to the hardy foot a,
for the leather softened the bli;
the pavement and saved the frog'
the small stones. Tims did he ex
the old nursery riddle:
What nhotnkPr ntakon nhoos wlti
leather, of all the four clementHi
toKiMlnr-
Earth anil writer. Are anl air anil ei
customer takes two pair?
Success J
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"HAT KOUT OP A Foon DO YOU TAKK Mtt
rou?"
GrecntleM's. and this horse must be
shod before he can take ine. There
Isn't another horse in the barn today,
and I can't ride this o-e stteh a dis-tatiei-
with these confounded shoes.
Why i n earth do ''i't "-nine one liml a
way to shoo a h in -m h a v. ,iy that
the sinu s w !i! be n c-unfort in-:e.id of
it burden to the bea-.t'.-" And the
Hq i"e looked milio.'. i d.
Ned had been softly stfohing the
h;'t.ii-"!iie aninial's t.i t i.. i . ml as the
Hqi iie ci'asid rptal.lng tie 1 1 . - looked
at hil l, with a li", - -:.n up ti
Id-, brl.l.t f.!'-. . li.".. : h. . "opltioll
ciiine iiiln h -I'ii - i. a-k'-d
eag.-rly:
".ijinre 1! i i . v ; l.-t lue
sho-' Vii'.nr: I know I can do it. and
If yo;i will let mo try a plan I have In
my mind I am sure It will turn ut a
good one. riease, .sir, do! I've thought
of It such a lot, and I know I can do
It."
ORKINA L CO M POSIT ION.
Tea -Its Cultivation and Preparation.!
by Maying Jamert, (ith grade A.
The tea plant is raised from seeds which
are sown in March, alter Uung keit
in moist soil the previous winter.
They are planted out in their growing
quarters when they, are one year old.
No leaves are plucked for the first three
years, but the plants are kept cut down
to the hedght of three or four feet.
The first cropping takes place the
fourth vfftr, and after this there are
three cropn of leaves every year as long
as the tree lives.
Two venr interesting poiuts about
the tea plants, must lo noticed. First,
the tea pbiu when freshly picked,
h is neither the odor nor flavor with
; which we n familiar. These are dj
: veloped by tno after treatment. The
j different qualities of tea are made
from the saiii- leaves by varying the
mode of preparation.
jnpp. r i h vary taken in picking
"the leaves. Each must lie picked sep
arately with the finger and thumb, to
avoid injuring the leaves or the young
shoots of the plant.
The first picking takes place in April. ,
Thi crop consists of the tender
leaves of spring. They produce the fin
est and most delicate teas of the year.
The second picking takes place about
a month later, the leaves being larger,
and darker, and not so rich in flavor.
The last ri( tikes place when the
leaves have grown their full fize.
They, are then more bitter and woody,
and have very little of the Jlavor of the
earlier crops
Tin last two crops furnish most of
the tea sent out of China; for the Chi
nese rateiy part with the first crops,
but keep tneni for themselves, and
ttieir friends.
One acre of ground will have about
two hundred plants, and the yearly
crop is from two hundrtwl fifty to three
hundred pounds of tea. The women
j alone pick the first crop, but oven the
'children help in the later pickings,
j The first atep in the preparation of
! the leaves is to expose them to the ac
j tion (f tle nun and air. For this pur
pos they are laid on mats, or in shal
low baskets, and stirred ever)' now
and then. When dried they are thrown
on a Hat table ami lightly n-llid; The
next step is to p it tl.etn in small, q :an-litie-
into an Sr. u j an, over a i harcoal
lire, to cuinplete the worh' d drying.
While in tho j an they ore c u-rantly
rifled t keep Iheln 1)0111 Si fi b i H '.
. Tin-it tli'-y nie quickly thrown mi the
! table, wh.-ie ine:i nil, them wiii!" rhev
, are -till but In the best tea .-a- h leaf
' h rolled or twisbd sejatately, .giving
i a m 're delii ions odor and tlavor.
The bind process is to throw the roll
led lca s iiLTain into the pan. over the
chai(nal lite, and carefully ria-t them,
I so as to Olive otl every particle of
moist ute.
Nothing now remains but to sift
and sort the ti a and pack it in chests
lined with lead foil for the market.
So away to the d;rt. t' they hitd.
He rpoke In 3 tor., -ibid:
"The tocth mi'-, cv"' out.
But is I'm far frjm t;ut.
'Twill take tventy dentists beside."
The d;nti6ts at latt were ail found,
And. a rop? tz. "" tcoth being bound,
They all cav jerk.
Grim vrllf c' ! ' :. Turk,
For triy yanktc! o.jt i tooth that wa$ sound.
NEDJilE APPRENTICE,
AND HIS BRIGHT IDEA
.-----.--.------
"Ci'i i ' on. now; d ct I;:;:! ".'abrt
no us.1 t r sit mo milt' ov-r them pa
pers when the forge has got ter be
hlowed." The speaker was a sturdy,
strong armed blacksmith, with rather
a stolid face. lie held in his tongs a
partly shaped horseshoe, which he was
about to place In the forge, and his re
marts were addressed to a lad of about
seventeen, who sat upon a bench at
the far end of the smithy. He was a
large and well developed boy for his
age, ami every line of face and figure
denoted a strong character. He wns
reading front a back number of a tech
nical Journal, and so absorbed had he
become that he did not hear the Words
fipoken to him.
With an annoyed expression the man
Spoke more hh.ilply ami toou. It few
steps toward the hid. who. becoming
aware of what was needed, arose from
Ids bench, laid the paper carefully
upon a little shelf above his head and.
:lh"d
t.
tl.
of rem
;.:.d took h-dd
IImws. It v.a
he performed
and that his
I
wi;l a had
went over t
of the h..nd'.f of the In
clearly to be si en that
the work mechanically
thoughts still dwelt upon the article
ho bad been reading In the paper. Pres
ently he forgot to pump and was again
reprimanded.
"Wake up, Ned! What sort of n lag
are you, anyhow? 'Taln't a mite o
use fer me ter ever try ter I'arn yer
nothln' about shoeln a horse, 'cause
yer don't take no heed o' what's done
right under yer noe," said the man
sharply.
The lad came back to his surround
ings with a Mart and, turning a pair of
fine gray eye- upon the man, said:
"Father, didn't Squire lbiscome say
that his new horse had never been
properly fitted with shoes and flsk you
If you couldn't think up huho way of
stow rinmAn
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