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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17

Territory of Idaho,l GO
County of Alturasi
I, George W. Griffin, Cashier 81 the above
named bank, Do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true To the best of my
knowledge and belief.
GEO. ". GRIFFIN, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
10th day of October, 1855.
GEo. NJ. SNOW, Notary Public
Cortect-Attest:
ISAAC /. LEWIS,
JOSEPH PINKHAM,> Directors.
GEO. W. GRIFFIN,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17

Last Friday a man by the name
of Ehrlaub shot a man by The name
of Doc Decker, between whom there
has been an old grudge for some
time. On Friday Ehrlaub went to
the postofiice for his mail where
Decker is at work. Decker in an
insulting manner ordered him out
of the house, Ehrlaub saying he
would go when he got ready.
Decker stepped from behind the
counter and knocked him down,
when Ehrlaub drew a pistol and
shot him through the thigh, pro-
ducing a serious and dangerous
wound.-News-Mine
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17

This is the sweet, complimentary
way in which the Boise Statesman
begins an article on Alturas
County: Alturas is probably the
worst heeced county in the Terri
tory. Every man in Alturas seems
to Look upon the county exchecquer
as pot for public distribution, and
although the hungry subjects seem
to belong to the same family or
ring they have occasional dis
agreements about the division of
the spoils. We do not know that the
county commissioners are any bet
Der than the rest of the hungry
crowd"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17

81 never did take much stock in
that story about fish being such
fine brain food" inadvertently
remarked Smith, "and l take less
stock jim it than ever now that I've
lived off little else for some time
past. / think I'll quit them"
II wouldn't if 1 were you, old boy"
feelingly remarked Smithers you
see the fish in order to improve the
brain must have something to work
upon. They can't create the thing"
And then smith said that Smithers
talked for all the world like his
wife-Oil City (Pa.) Blizzard.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17
NEW TO-DAY.
3ii2.
Report OF tic Condition

nF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK vt KETCUUm.
~ in the Territory of Idaho, at the close OF
business, October LIST. 1885:
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17

A correspondent of the Register
saws that Frank Fithian was shot
by Rodney Wright in saloon at
Soda Springs, last week. Wright
ordered Fithian to dance, and on
his refusal shot him dead. Wright
is hard case, and is the same man
who several months ago amused
himself by shooting out the head
light of the switch engine. Some
time ago he was ordered out of
Pocatello.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17
Dissolution Notice.
Esaray Notice.

GONE TO THE PREMISES OF THE
Y subscriber, near kctchum. on or about
the 18th OF August, 1SS5. one dark bay horse.
described "a follows: Branded | ii on left
hip, left hip knocked down; compass brand
on right shoulder. Age probably ten years.
Weight about leo pounds. The owner
can have said horse by paying ranch bin
and charges of publication. DAN BEATOS.
Cold Springs Ranch. Aug. - 1850.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17

Though authority is stubborn
bear, he is oft led by the nose with
gold.-Shakespeare.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17

Group, whooping-cough and bronchitis
iyiined:ately relieved By Shiloh's Cure.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1885-10-17

Beauty without virtue is flower
without perfume.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
Another Wife Crushed.

care you ever going to stop talking
and let me go to sleep?" said Crimson
heak to his wife the other night, when
she was giving him dose of neigh
borhood gossip.
"Well, | tell you what | say is true,
| give you my word for it."
''That's just the trouble If you
didn't give quite so many words about
it | might believe it"
And then the room was as still as a
store where they don't advertise.
The dentist who announces that he
will spare no pains to pull teeth we'll
is the man to keep away from.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05

!. "Ah," said Clarence, with swelling
bosom, "that was the most blessed
lesson ever received. My wife knows
who gave it to me.
"And it serves you yet, my boy
"Aye, and it will serve us while we
live. We have none of those old bur
dens of anger to bear now. They can
not find lodgment with us. The flash
and jar may come-for we are human,
lyou know but the heart will not be
called to entertain it.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
W hat Broke a Printer.

Tbepublisher of a weekl y newspaper
in Michigan before the war as under
the saddle and hitched to wagon to
boot. He carried load OF doubt,
debt and anxiety which would have
crushed s. cretary of the treasury IN
one brief week. A dollar was cart
wheel in his eyes and two cart wheels
in the eyes of his employees. 1t is viv-
idly remembered by the writer how
a publisher in an interior town felt as
happy as a king when he could send
for two bundles Of paper at once, and 4
it is more ~Lidlyre menbers4L Ltkllkel
never saw the TGeK hen ne could buy
one bundle Of paper aud payoff the
hands, TOO in cash.
One day priAterdiets. Perhaps he
gradually starg 20 death, or maybe
.the apxiety as 'aa4il haf
sssa sss 1faisllsd SlSe gl ny ss;s. J
new printer Came up from Grand
Rapids. to fill the gap, and his wages
were to be twelve dollars per week.
On the first Saturday he got an order
on a hardware store for ten dollars
ard two dollaraln cash. On the next
he got a boot aid shoe order for nine
dollars, and a three dollar order on a
grocery. On the third he had to take d
six-doilar order On livery stable and
let the balance geover. His fourth Sat
urdav had arrived. and he had eigh-
teen dollars due him. An order for
that amount on saw mill was quietly
laid on his case and the books bal
anced. but he protested:
why, | can't use this order"
/ "Why not:'
81 don't want any lumber"
"You don't:"
"No. sir.
| The poor publisher looked blank,
scratched his head, and after minute
hurried over to the desk with the re-
mark: | see-all right. I'll tear
this up, and give one on cooper for
ten dollars, and another on the under
taker for eight dollars. Yos had bet
ter arrange to get married and settle
down here"
The printer went out of town that
Icvening by a very muddy highway,
having disposed of his orders for two
dollars in cash and satchel to hold
his spare shirt.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
Mime W riting'

1t was thoogh, wonderful achlete. N. We
ment when Parisw,s bcsieged by the
Germans. to phoogEaRe one s,ue s'',,,I 81 ..
nough to bs enclosed in tiny gun;
4 carrier pigeon conveyed the quill
! 1t of the beleagured city to those VINO
read its onteDss through a magnifylng
glass. WOW tha
But neither photography nor tne s
microscopa was known ~ tne .ea oass MsEoIe Ia
Cicero. vet IA mentions that the who,e JIG
of Homer's a ad had been wr's'eh WI u ~ L., ha
a piece of parcE 50 S'''"
inclosed in nut .,. IF nrac
A Frenchman, al II1iS -, - prav
ticing, wrote the four : 1ecG
ers of the Roman church on one 6f his
finger nails. He was proud of his ex-
plot, but a poet is mentioned by Pliny
who excelled him in the art of minute
penmanship. He wrote couplet in
letters of gold, but so minute was the
writing that the bit of paper on which
1t was inscribed was enclosed in the
husk OF grain of wheat.
Again and again as one reads, he
murmurs to himself Solomon's 5 words,
"There is no new thing under the
sun. - lOuthS' COMPANION.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05

shine when YOU next entered your
home you would not fell sounhappy"
Clarence assent,d d.
But" continued Mr.. Wardle, ''you
fear that there will be . gloom in your
home when you return"
The young man bowed hS kfai as
he replied in the affirmative.
because, the merchant added, with
a touch of pat"rnal sternness in his
tone, you are resolved to carry It
there"
Clarence looked up in surprise.
III carry it:'
Yes: YOU have the burden in heart,
and you mean. to carry it bone ke-
member, my boy. have beeu there
and | know all about il. | haSe been
yery foolish in nv lifetime, ana have
suffered until | discover d my folly,
aud then resolved that would suffer
30 more. = Upon lo2kiag the gnatter
squarely and honesty r fhe faccI
found the burdens which had so CALLED
me sell imposed. OF course such bur
dens can be thrown off. Now, you
have resolved to 60 home TO dinner
with heavy heart and dark face.
You have no hopes that your wife will
meet YOU with a smile. Aud why :
Because you know that she has no
particular cause for smiling. on
know that her heart is burdened with
affl.ction which gives You so much
unrest And you are finally assured
that Won are TO find your home shroud
/ ed IN gloom; aud, furthermore, you
don't know when that gloom will de
part and when the blessed sunshine OF
love will burst in again. And why
don't Won know: Because it is not IN
your heart I, sweep the cloud away.
You SAY to yourself, Il can bear 1t as
long As she crn. Am | not right:
I Clarence did not answer in words.
Il know am right, pursued the
merchant. land very likely your wife
IS saving to herself the same thing
30 your hope of sunshine does not
rest upon your willingness to forgive
but upon the inability to bear the
burden. By and by 1t will happen. AS
it has happened before, that one of the
twain will surrender from exhaustion,
and it will be likely to be the weaker
party. Then there will b. a collapse
and reconciliation. Generall Y the vile
falls first beneath the CALLING burden
because her love is keenest and most
sensitive. The husband in such :
case acts the part OF Il coward. Nher
he might with breath, blow th,
cloud away, he crnges aud covers IN.
al mis- wiie - freed 10 let the beauti
lfui sanliel,i in through her breaking
- -
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
Eelfrf Rfting,
Second W ind.

From time to time public perform
ers appear, sometimes men and some
times women, who bave the facu tyrsi
FsDasi 3 1assg 80 =, a s. ags1lsss s'.s
like to try the experiment of holding
his breath for even one moment be
will find that the second hand of his
watch will 60 very slowly after the
first thirty seconds, and that the time
occupied between forty, five and sixty
seconds is unconscjou>ly prolonged
Yet these performers will remain
submerged for three full minutes, a
time which is sufficient to drown ordi-
nary persons. They attain their pro
fciencg hv constantly diIating the
lungs to the fullest degree, and do il
as follows:
The reader NAV not be aware that in
ordinary respiration We only use por-
ton Of our lungs, the cells at the ex.
tremity not being brought into play
This is the reason why those who are
not "in training" and who try to run
for anv distance, soon begin to gasp
and unless they are courageous enough
to persevere in spite of the choking
sensation are forced to stop. But il
they will perseyere the choking goes
off, ani the result is what is techni-
ca!ly known as second wind"
When the second wind is fully es
tablished, the runner does not become
out Of breath, but goes on running al
long as his legs will carry him. | know
this from experience, having been &C
customed for some years to run three
miles every morning over a very hill,
road.
The fact is. that on starting, tn,
/ fsrthest portions of the lungs arr
choked with effete air. and the re
mainler 10 not supply air enough t
meet the increased circulation causel
by the exercise. BY degrees, however
! the neglected cells come ir.to play
g. s!E.z.s,0fuE
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05

Backache, stitches in the side, infa
ton and soreness of the bowels, are
symptoms of disordered state of the
digestive aud assimilative organs.
which can be promptly and thorough
ly corrected by the use of Ayers Ca
thartlc Pills. As dinner pills, and as
aids to digestion, they have no equal.
They cure constipation.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
Connecticut Snake Yarns.

According to New England chron-
icler, Mr.. f. W. Schofield. of Weston,
Conn.,, is a fa.r,s---sro has very much
amusement with black snakeh Last
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05

The man who thought he could learn
to make boots by swallowing sherry
cobbers has just got work in which
he attempts to prove that by eating
hops you will acquire knowledge OF
waltzing.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
New Style of Salutatlon.

b. During his first visit to Paris, NJ
Lasafle, a distinguished German, pre-.
sented himself at the house of a we'll
known lady, to whom he had sent let
terS of introduction in advance When
the servant opened the door and re
celved his card she conducted him tc
the boudoir and told him to be seated
Saying:
madame will come immediately.
/ Presently the lady entered. She was
in deshabllle and her feet were bare.
covered only with loose slippers. She
bowed to him carelessly and said:
"Ah, there YOU are; good morning"
Size threw herself on a sofa. let fall a
slipper, and reached out Lasalle her
very pretty foot.
LaSaIle, naturally, was completely
ast0anded but he remembered that at
his nome IN Germany it was the Gus
tom to kiss lady's hand, and he sup
posed it was the Paris mode to kiss
her foot. Therefore he did not hesi-
tate to imprint Il kiss upon the fasci-
mating foot so near him, but he could
not avoid SAYING:
81 thank You, madam. for this new
mode of making a lady's acquaintance.
1t is much better and certainly more
generous than kissing the hand"
The lady jumped up, highly indig-
nant.
who are you, sir, and what do you
mean?"
lie gave his name.
y on are not, then. corn doctor ?"
81 am charmed to say, madam, that
| am not"
"But You sent me the corn doctors
card"
1t was true. Lasalle in going ont
that morning had picked up the card
OF corn doctor from his bureau and |
put 1t in his pocket. This, without
glancing at, he had given to the SER
want, who had given it to her mistress.
There was nothing to do but laugh
over the joke.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
ing order the circulation ss resplra'
ton again balance each other, and IN

SNtoho "ii4u - the result.
Now let the reader repeat this ex-
pertinent of holding his breath against
time, but first let him force out of his
lungs every particle Of air that be can
expel. and then draw rs deep breath h
as his lungs will hold. If this Re re-
peated some seventy or eighty times.
by way OF imitation of the whale, the
experImenter will find that he cIn
hold his breath for minute and a
half without inconvenience. Should
he be swimmer. he should always
taks TINS precautIon before taking a
header, and he will find that he can
swim for a considerable distance before
he needs to rise for breath.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05

''S4t''F 'tsNr'tA anu Was tTou DIeII
lie Saw tha truth and felt its weight
lie @as mt fool nor was he a Far
ipurlng the silence that followed h,
reflected upou The past, and he Gale
to his mind scenes Just rs Nr. Wardlt
bal depicted. And this brought hin
10 the remembrance of how he ha,
seen Als wife weep when she hid failed
and sunk bereath the neavy burden
ho" often she hau sobbvd upon hi:
bosom IN grief for the error.
The merchant read the yauug mans
though's, aud. AFTER time, he rose
and touched him on the arm.
arence, suppose you we're to put
on your hat and 90 home now. sup
posc you should think on Your way
ouly Of the love and blessing that
might be; with this thought va
should enter Your ABIDE with smile
on your face; aud YOU should pat your
arms around vuu wlfr's neck and Kiss
her. and softly say 10 her, NV dar-
ing, have come home To throw down
the burden ! took away with me this
morning. II IS greater than can
bear, suppose you were 10 do this.
would your wife repul>e YOU"
'kepuiso me-"
"Ah, my boy, vou echo my words
with an amszement which sh VS. that
Nou understand me. Now, SIR, have
YOU the courage to try the experiment.:
Dare you be such Il man: Or do YOU
fear 10 let your dear wife know how
much You love her: DO YOU fear she
would respect YOU less for the deed ;
Tell me, do YOU thlua the cloud of
happiness might thus be banished.
Oh, Clarence, if YOU would but try it,"
Sarah Spencer had flushed her work
IN the Kitchen and in the bed chamber,
aud sat down with her work in ner
lap. But she could not ply her needle
Her he tt was heavy and sad, and
tears were IN her ewes.
Presently she heard the front door
open and step IN the passage Ger
tam Y she kLew that step Yes. her
usband entered and "a smile upon his
face. She saw 1t through her gather /
ing tears and her heavy heart leaped |
up. lie came and put his arms around !
her neck and kissed her, and SAID to
her in broken accents:
darling, | have cong home to
throw down the burden | took away
with me this morning. 1t is greater
than | can bear"
And she, trying 10 speak, pillowed
her head on his bosom and sobbed and
wept like "a child. Oh, could he for
give her: His coming with the blessed
offering had thrown the burden of re-
proach back upon herself She saw
him noble and generous, and she wor
SHIPPED him.
But Clarence would not allow her
% take all the blame. He must share
hat.
I've will share it so evenly" said
le, that its weight shall be ielt no
more. And now, my darling, We shall
'e happy
"A ways"
Mr.. Wardle had no need, when
Jlarence returned to ask the result
le could read it in the young mans ;
eyes and in the JOY inspired
ac".
1t was year after ths-and Clar- I
nee Spencer had become partner in {
he bouse-that Mr.. Wardle, by acci-
lent, referred to the events Of that !
gloomy morning.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05

hVioe' Hey "cuI iHtO
in the ground so rapidly thai
not count them. The hole
four inches across aud openat
!alf filled cellar of an old 9" .u
was built long before the reHaa
war. He saw that small,,Id
from the passage where a s. NJ W.
occasionally stick bis hea. tbe
would sometimes take the S,ru
head and pull. 1t was diff rsn.
Just hard enough not to no f,r
tile in two and get him o ' f,m,v
the snake would wind b st.v.
around some object and 'n att;uo q
ing. When he succeed ..0
them out he would slaiI ,,lod
adjacent log and kill tn li ~. ,ll
oF Of uh;oh rann ",,u ",.e ssplong. He
has a1naadn ho o "sement this
snr;nr ami bas ~ t,,.n ''o of his snake
finn, 49, ,;1.oon .o .'"o e aaHeu largest ol
mh;at e.t saA three inche'
in diamater Tba ~ ~,aay he captur
ed a hiacL snsLe ~ apple tree nea
hr br "a oI'oN th = nsh;' sIlaAt 1t II" mouth. Whe
he oantnrad tho ~ the robin lie
awav ar.t;faL rs release. Nj
Snhofo7J assnrt, - the entire leng1
Nciole' u aesei % Foot Y inches. t
has friends whoe welcome 10 :,
served seats at spol Us VI w" ~
pentine arena, a. he estimates -, T.;
he has a stock 900 to have iun '"
this summer,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
1 sflrrt story.
4 HEAVY BURDEN.

Rather heavy burden, isn't it,
nay toy =
Clarence Spencer, to whom these
words had teeu addressed, turuel from
the ledger and looked towards the
speaker. Clarence saS young man
not more than five aud ;wrn'v-aud
Mas book keeper t. Mr. Solomon War
Die. p.casant.facrd. kseu eyed man
al @f'v, wao had spoken.
~ heavy burden. l,u { 1t, Clarence
/ the merchant rep a',l
And ,,,I. the yoauc man VA. silent.
ills looks indicated ihat he did not
Icompreheud. lie had been for some
ItIu.c bending over the ledger, with his
thoughts far away: ard that his
q @hts ~ere uoI Pheasant ones vas
e. .rrt enough l.om tne gloom on his
hau fac.
~ dear boy, the burlcn Is not
.~syu.~. ba, twill groa heay.
'a-' i~Avlcr the joase. ygu carry
" !'e. i. ,,ot comprehend
E~Ah. Classac~E
= g. a,a taiy .
- - f,r 4nn
IA ~" TIl1nL
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1885-06-05
RORINsSO.v. P.4HEHER y 90.
FIN IL & Nj TI u [ L M G J. G L IL L = q
H FOR MEN AND BOYS.
STRICTLY ONE PRICE--NO DEVIATION.
f h & W.\SIII \GIO\, nl.
TO PROPRIETORS OF FARMS.
HOTELS & BOARDING HOl SEES,
- RESTAURANTS AND STEAMBOATS,,
SUMMER RESORTS, &C., &C.

\tE call HoIseN
w "ieadquae aud having made purchase ring the
market prepared quote the Lowest Pcvs Which these
obtained in this any City.