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The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1884-03-01
Our Daily Bread.

A little girl knelt down to pray
One morn. The mother said,
s'My love, why do we ever say,
Give us our daily bread2
Why not ask for week or more2
The baby bent her head
In thoughtful mood towards the floor,
"We want it fresh" she said.
The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1884-03-01
Singers Sewing Machines.

We are prepared to sell machines for
cash or on time. Call and examine our
latest improved Singer machines.
Dec12tO GILLETTE 4 EVANS.
The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1884-03-01
Religious.

Rev. Richie will hold divine services
in Union Church tomorrow at IL o'clock
A. NJ. and 7P. NJ. Sunday School at 1890.
The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1884-03-01

Mans virtues can all become vices. A
power of righteous indignation can be-
come violent temper, and make mad
man or common scold of heart that
began by longing to correct abuses.
The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1884-03-01
For Sale.

A second hand sewing Machine 'syie-
tor" at Lewis & Sons drug store.
The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1884-03-01
J. I. Morgan & Co.,
BANKERS,
Ketchum, idaho,


Transact q General Bank Business. Buy and
Sell Sterling Exchange. Buy and Sell Ex-
change on the Cities of the United States.
Certificates of Deposit issued Payable on De-
mand
Careful attention given to collections and Re-
mitances made on day of payment
The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1884-03-01

Total Solids %, 805,
/. /. Lewis, Manager.
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
GENERAL NOTES.

A suggestion for hotel-keepers is contain ed
in the following from letter By young lady in Yer
mont boarding school You should what we have to
live on few mornings ago all we had for breakfast
was baked potatoes pickles, bread butter and coffee
They say we grow fat, as II would interfere with
our mental development"
One of the latest confidence games il that
played by the who is taking home from some distant
point for burial the body and who at GER
tain stage the journey tenders TO confederate dressed
like a railroad official check IN payment OF charges
OF course the confederate has not enough money to cash
the check and so the obgug acquaintance OF an hour
makes loan and takes the check security this the
game that was played upon JOnn b. stewart an ONO
farmer in the Broad street station, at Philadelphia on
Thursday; the game I'm which grecnhOru, some
where Is probably engaging at the present moment.
Rapid transit by steam railways to the
suburbs Of Boston has undergone extraordinary improve
ments within two three years, and that IS probably
one OF the reasons why the whole city IS now SrumbunS
AT the slow nconveuient irregular and altogether
asperaLing horse-Car service "NO matter where one
goes" says The Boston HcrIld-"On the street, into
stores and Offices and into hOrsecars themselves
be is sure TO hear grumbng growing and out'poken
complaint Why is this thusi Are the horse railroad
companies bamcl Or Is t not case where tley nave
fostercd dependent travel which, III times OF winter
storm and heavy SHOWS, lhey cannot accommoddtef
English census returns show in 1851 de-
cline OF 5s per cent in the number of puryeyors Of
sprtuous liquors IA compared with 1871. equivalent to
III per cent II the growth Of population be considered
The great branches OF food supply on the other hand
increased proportion TO the increase OF population
The legal profession including barrsters, solicitors and
clerks increased % per cent during the decade while the
population Increased only II per cent But still more
extraordinary than this legal multiplication are the hg-
ures which show that the maidseryans were less than
one per cent more numerous in 1881 than In 1871 Mil
liners increased by 1874 per cent during the decade but
the abstract frOm which these statements are taken says
nothing about plumbers
The contest between glass-workers and en-
poyers IA growing confused than The workers
assert that many OF them have made arrangements to
connect themselves with eight cooperative establish
ments mainly In New-Jersey and In NeW-Yorki that
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05

however, seem unable to carry on their IOreigii
affairs iudiciOusly through popular council
One reason of this undoubtedly Is that lne
French are more ignorant of the outside wOrld
than any nation except the Chinese. The con-
sequence is that the Deputies have to depend
upon the few members of the Government OF
the Opposition who do affect to comprehend the
situation, and so they follow their leaders IKE
sheer. and with not much more intelligence 1t
is very certain that the Freuch masses desire
nothing less than war of any kind. Ihey WISH
TO be LET alone to produce and to hoard. 1hey
cannot be Indifferent to war, for the army IS
raised by conscriptiOn. They have pretty well
cot over the dream of glory, and they arc not at
all Chauvinisic But at Paris small minority
of politicians and gamblers is able to control
legislation, and the general ignorance OF tne
foreign countries selected Oraggressl0nrenders
those who disapprOvc of the course pursued
HELPLESS to express what they feel, or to oDer
any effective opposition.
The French Government is not stable, put us
instability consists chiefly in its impurity.
France would support a Republic administered
uprightly, but the Republic of to-day is seeking
to strengthen itself by recourse to the very
policy which Louis Napoleon adopted III the de-
cline of the Second Empire, and, what Is worse
the Republic is attracting to ITSELF and is fall
ing into the hands of, the very same vicious
agencies that at once prOfted by and preclpl-
tated the downfall of the preceding regime IL
may be no more than question of men, though
usually the need brings the men to supply H.
But it may also be that the Latin races are
somehow not fitted for, or not sufficiently de-
yeloped to sustain, popular government, and
that things can in their present stage of evolu-
ton only alternate between anarchy ana oes-
potism, with intermediate periods Of unsettled
experiment
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JANUARY o. 1884

companies to support their claims by proof, and
that metres which go on registering consump-
ton after the gas has been shut off are not to
be accepted as being prima tdcie infallible. Ii
seems probable, indeed, that some metres are
totally depraved, and cannot be depended upon
atall, at least by the consumer AS nobody
supposes that the gas companies would do
wrong if they did not repose so implicit con-
fidence in these machines, it is clear that any
judicial decision which tends to dissillusionlze
them in regard to the true character of their
mechanical servitors ought to be as welcome to
then as to q long suffering public.
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
pERAf1NENT ELECTORS.

Mr.. McCoid's bill to regulate the Presidential
succession and provide simple and easy mode
of getting a new President when the offices OF
both President and Vice president are vacant
seems TO meet with considerable favor in West
ern newspapers, whOurge, as THE TRIBUNE has
done, that while it is useless to expect any
action upon the electoral count on the eve of Il
Presidential election, the subject Of the Presi-
Dental succession is of pressing Importance and
one with which both parties can deal without
fear of giving advantage to the other. The
Electoral College is a very different Institution
to-day from that which the fathers had i'll mind.
Under Mr.. McCoid's plan, it would be still more
greatly changed. Originally designed to be a
dcliberative body, making an actual selection
of the President, the Electoral College Is now
merely a machine for recording the popular
choice expressed through party organizations.
Mr.. McCod proposes to make il practically a
permanent body The electors would hold Office
for a term of four years, and if at any time
during that period the offices both of President
and Vice President became vacant, instead of
taking measures TO choose new electors at a
popular election, as the present law requires, the
permanent electors would promptly meet and
fiji the vacancy Mr. McCOid's plan in part
resembles that of Senator lloar touching the
Presidential succession, as it makes the ScCre-
tary of State the temporary Executive in such a
case pending an election.
Mr.. McCOids plan would save the country the
turmoil of Il special Presidential campaign,
| perhaps, and it would shorten the period during
which the office would be held by stop gap.
But it cannot be said to do much more Under
the present law, any election to fill a vacancy in
the Presidency would be held at the ordinary
fall clections-so that no special election would
| be necessary, except perhaps in some of the
States. Serious objection might be raised, too,
| to creating permanent class of men who would
be called upon to make a President in case Of
| need, and so would be the repositories Of a
| great power. This consideration, even if it was
not necessarily a fatal objection to the bill,
would probably stand in the way of its passage.
| If this session of Congress is to deal with the
question of Presidential succession at all,
| Senator HOars bill, naming the order i'll which
the Cabinet officers shall act as President in
case of successive vacancies, will probably be
| the easiest to pass.
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
THE TYITED ST4TES CENSUS.

The work of the United States Census ONCE
is regarded with envy and admiration III Eng
land. Statisticians, and Government Oihclals
there consider it an undertaking of immense
difficulty merely to collect and tabulate the
figures pertaining to the actual population OF
the United Kingdom They readily appreciate
the increased labor of obtaining the same in
formation in larger territory where the popu-
lation is widely scattered; and when they hnu
the census tables supplemented by an imposing
array of bulletins and volumes, they frankly
acknowledge the inferiOrity of their own
meagre efforts. We take pleasure i'll repro
ducing in another column a few OF the lavish
compliments bestowed upon the United states
Census by The Scotsman, one of the most IN
fluential and judicious newspapers published In
Great Britain. 1t is highly gratifying to observe
that the labOrs of the American corps oil STATS
ticians are appreciated at their full value
abroad, If not at home.
Foreign critics, however can have only an In
adequate conception of the work accomplished
in connection with the last census. The article
referred to is based upon the second volume
issued in Washington. This relates solely to
the population, the initial number being a COM
already been issued, being devoted exclusively
to the subject of American manufactures; and
this is to be followed during the present year by
large number of additional monographs and
special studies, social political, economic and
commercial, of various departments OF national
industry and activity. A great many captlouS
complaints have been made III Washington and
elsewhere about the census. 1t has been
charged that the work has involved extravaSant
expenditures and that the publication OF the
volumes has been delayed unnecessarily. The
census has been costly, and there has been de-
Law in compiling the results; but it is well to
bear in mind that the American people will get
q great deal in return for the money expended,
and that the series of volumes when completed
will be the greatest marvel of modern statistics
II will be the most thorough and accurate cen
sus ever made for any nation in the world. Not
only have the figures and facts been collected
with extraordinary skill and patience, but they
have been invested with what The scotsman
calls " the Illuminating and informative virtue
of Statisticsn
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
pOPrL1R GoTERNMEN1s IND WAR.

| POPULAR GOVERNMENIS AND VAR.
The theory that popular governments would
act more wisely and reasonably than absolute
rulers in the administration of external rcla-
tions has not received much confirmation from
| experience. In some cases, as that OF France,
| the popular elements of the Government appear
| 10 interfere with the evolution of a wise and
reasonable policy. Thus the Tunis expedition
was the work of a selfish and corrupt faction,
| composed of stock spectators aud political ad-
genturers. In the same way the Madagascar
quarrel and the ToEquinese GualTels have been
fomented by stock jobbers and ambitious poll
ticans. None of these expeditions have been
inspired by either craftsmanship or patriotism,
| and in all of them great dangers to the State
have been involved. The English Parliament
does not present so many illustrations of the
class we refer to, partly because British insti-
tutions are more stable and longer established,
but even there the ruling faction has repeatedly
led the country into war without justification.
1t is no doubt true that there has never been a
time when the policy of absolute rulers would
not have been quite as much to be feared as the
worst popular government that ever existed,
but il must be remembered that a hundred years
ago the world thought democratic institutions
would regenerate society, and that they would
cause great rebound from folly and injustice
to the opposites Experience has not borne out
this glowing anticipation, nor would history
have warranted it had the annals of the past
been rightly studied. The theory that "in the
multitude of counsellors there Is wisdom" has
never yet been demonstrated, while on the
other hand the diffusion of responsibility has
often led to the doing of things which very few
individuals would have liked to be accountable
for.
The French more than any other people,
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
CONFLICT LABOR IN REFORM SCHOOLS.

CONTRACT LABOR IN REFORM SCHOOLS.
Mr.. William p. LetchwOrth, Commissioner
of tbe New-York Board of Charities, has
written cogent pamphlet on the industrial
training of children in reformatOry schools.
If is q powerful plea against the system of con-
tract labor as applied to such institutions as the
House of Refuge on Randals Island ana inc
Western House of Refuge. In those TWO
schools. as well as in five similar institutions IN
other States, the labor Of the children Is not
under the control and supervision OF the ON
GERS. but is hired by contractors and directed IN
detail by their agents. The experience OF
supcrintendents and members OF State boards
of Charities is rccitcd and the operation OF the
contract system in these seven schools Is COM
parcd with the results of fTee-labOr or OF sell
regulated agreements. Upon this Douy Oh
evidence the Commissioner grounds his cOhclu-
sions that the contract system, while not neces-
sarilv economical, is detrimental to the rctor-
nation of juvenile offenders, which is the primary
end of such institutions. The improvement OF
the inmates is sacrificed TO the interests ana
creed of the contractors they are system
aticallv overworkcd and untitled for school
instruction and recreation; they are flogged by
their task masters; they are taught III hard'
mechanical way, and frequently learn only one
process in manufactures that are complex;
there is a lack of sympathy, sclf-rcspect Is not
inculcated and they come to look upon labor rs
a scheme of money making III which they have
no real interest.
The Commissioners argument appears to us
conclusive so far as the moral aspects of the
controversy are concerned. Contract labor
appears to be economical asa rule, although eX-
ccptionS are disclosed by the statistical synopsis !;
but in comparison with the reformatoly in
fucnccs of these schools, the mere matter OF
cost is of slight Importance The fact that
nearly all the supcrntcndcnts and specialists
engaged i'm this work i'm the United States con-
dcmn the contract system as applied to them
ought have weight with Our legislators. We
believe that the abolition of that system will
have q wholesome effect in clevatIng the moral
tone of the inmates of two great reform schools
and in adding dignity in their work. II is not
necessary to do away with picce-work nor to
exclude agreements which can be carried out
under the direction of the officers or trustees.
The yagrant bows should be taught to work
and encouraged to acquire habits OF industry
and proficiency in various forms of handicraft +;
but they should not be degraded into the
mechanical drudgcs of IN cXactlng greed. The
expedcncy of abOlishing contract labor in the
State prisons may be open to argument. The
juvenile offenders stand on a different plane.
Their needs are more urgent; the chances of
reformation are with them, not against them
and their labor ought to be made a saving grace
and not question of per capita maintenance
and contractors profits
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
ACTING AFTER THEIR KIND.

The combination of bruisers known as the Slade-
Sullivan party has been creating disturbances as
saultng people, and exhibiting much drunken ruf-
fansm generally This ought not to surprise any
or however These bruiserS have in truth been so
bepuffcd and bepraised, they have been so made to
feel that they really great men, that much
stronger heads might have been turned by the Hat
terry All over the country the press has devoted
much space to their d0ing5. Everywhere they nave
been received with open delight and admiration
They have been taught in the most convincing way
that prze-fghtlng is respectable and even audaOle,
and that all that belongs to prze-t ghting-namey,
rulianism, bad language bad whisky. association
with vice and crime and the occupations which de-
base all concerned in thcm-must be cherished. They
"a % lived In n world which wOrships muscle g.
which takes delight in contests of bestial ferocty ;
which thinks main of cocks and dog-iight manly
and clevatng; which has no notion Of any kecner
epioyment than Is derivable from the spectacle Of
two powerful athletes trying therbest to brusc and
cut and mangle and injurc one another; which
looks with savage contempt upon civilization, and
thinks soft gloves" a weak concession TO senti-
mentality deserving nothing bnt scorn
Under tho circumstances it is not wonderful
that the SHADES and Sullivans should think them
selves above the law, and should arrogate the right
TO lun amuck whenever the humor takes them. In
them rutiianism has been cOndoncd and applauded
They have been held up as gallant fellows" and
they have been justified in believing that to fight
prize-fghts as preliminary TO setting up " fash
saloon is quite as respectabea way of living as any
other 1t is natural that they should be little in
fated by their success and by the popular applause,
and if IN moments of excitement they knock out
people who have ambition to be so distinguished,
no doubt their admirers will not only absolve them
from all blame, but will come forward and cheer
fully pay their fines for them. Any other course
would be Inconsistent for they are, after all, only
what their environment has made them and those
who uphold them are responsible for that.
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
GENERAL SICKLES AND THE GAS COMPANY.

GENERAL SICKLES AND THE GAS CONP1NY.
General Siclles deserves the thanks of the
public for having through his reluctance to be
imposed upon elected from a court a ruling
which holds out some hope that the tyranny of
the average gas company may be assigned
definite limitations. 1t seems that the General
went to Europe for several months, locking up
his apartments, and having the gas supply cut
off near the meter. On his return he was
promptly presented with a bill for the gas
which he had not burned during his absence.
There is nothing remarkable in the case up to
this point. All gas companies appear to act
upon the principle adopted in France in
the last century, and which Sterne
complains Of in his Sentimental
Journey" Finding water-carriage cheaper and
pleasanter than posting, Sternc took passage
on a river boat, but as he was about to set
forth he was stopped by a revenue officer, who
informed him that he would have to pay for
posting whether he rode or not. ExpOstulatiOn
was useless. He was calmly told that he might
have rode if he had chosen to do so, and that
the King of France could not be mucted of his
revenues because travellers were capricous.
This seems to be the principle upon which
les. They told him, In effect, that he might
have burned the gas for which he was charged,
and they implied that they could not lose their
revenues merely because he was capricious
and chose to go Europe, when he might have
stayed at home and lighted up his rooms. As
this seems normal practice with gas
companies everywhere, the only cause for
surprise is that General Sickles should have
thought of disputing the corporations
bill. Most people would have con-
graduated themselves upon the fact
that after all the bill was not any higher than
if they had been using the gas Butthe General
would not stand it, and he defed the company,
and he prevented 1t from shutting off his gas by
suing out an injunction, and now he has sue
ceeded in getting ruling from court to the
effect that the company must prove the justice
of its claim In a regular suit, If it desires to
collect its bill.
1t will be seen at once that this IS really a
great movement in advance. 1t is something
to know that there are means of compelling gas
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
Amusemenis Go Niqht.

ACADEMY OF 2-"Faust'-S-Symphony Concert,
BIJoU OPERA House, and s-"Orpheus and Eurydlce'
CAsNo-2 and g." The Beggar Student
Days THEATRE and s." Seven-Twenty Eight"
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, and S-"Tourists"
HAvRRLY's COMEDY THEATRE-2-" BOccacc1o "-S-"La
Jolie Parfumeuse"
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE and $50" The Rajah."
NEW PARK THEATRE and S-"PassOns Slave"
NIBLo's GARDEN-2 and S-"The Payements Of Paris"
STAR THEATRE-2-" Macbeth -" Ingomar."
ITALIA THEATRE-2-" Beggar Student $" DE Att
karese."
JHRATRE CoMIoUE-s-" Cordelias Aspirations"
UNION SQUARE THEATRE and S-"Storm Beaten
wALLACK's TnEATRE-l:30 and s." Old Heads and Young
Hearts"
Sd AVENUE THEATFE-2 and s." Three Of Kind q,
bTV AVENUE THEN ITRE-2 and S"The Glass OF fasnlon'
14TH STREET THEATRE-2 and s." In Paradise"
New-York tribune., 1884-01-05
MCSIO AND The DRAuA.
MRS. LANGTRY AS LADY TEAZLE.


At the theatre in Jersey City last night Mrs.
Langtry acted Lady TeazIe and when her compare.
tive inexperience is considered in relation TO the
great difficulties presented by the character IL may
rightly be said that her performance denoted
remarkable advancement, alike in knowledge of her
own powers and in control OF the resources Of
dramatic art. The buOyant brilancy of Laiy
TedsIe was not evenly sustained by Mrs. Langtry:
there moments when the viyacty tagged;
there were little lapses out of the part, but the
brilliancy was present, and it Of the right
strain. The mechanism was not tentrey concealed:
there were signs of pre-OccupatiOn and Of effort.
and at moments lack OF the repOse which accom-
panies mentality fully aroused and fired with emo
tion; yet the mechanism was finely intelligent.
And that rpeness of experience which is ncedful to
control it is a thing that practice can obtain Mrs.
Langtry follows the old Abingdon tradition of the
part, in making her fine lady from the first: but,
now and then her own simplicity tinged the artiice
with a pleasant color of hOmely nature. At the
Kit from the screen scene there was cOpiOus ap>
pause, and an effort was made by the audience to
recall the actress before the fall of the curtain. In
certain flashes of impetuOsity-Or of wounded feel
ing-Mrs Langtry's performance of Lady Iea-Ie
presents good touches of original treatment With
more brilliant emphasis, more continuity, all less
use of the head tones, il would become an admirable
piece of work. The audience was large for Jersey
City, and strong in its applause Mr. Fred Everlll,
capital actor, made bright impression as S1
iyg.N urf1