The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-06-09
KETCHUM ALTURAs COUNTY IDAHO SATURDAY JUNE g.

/ him, nu1ges elbows, tramps on toes
until he triumphantly swings on the
car, bounces into seat, settles himself
with few jerks, whips out a newspa-
per and beams brightly on his fellow
travellers for few seconds before be-
ginning to read. But if he fails to
catch the train-let US draw the cur
tain.
And the Yankee school girls! They
are an amazing jolly set. and are for
ever giggling, They have great way
of having ''spreads." Have you ever
seen Yankee school girls spread? If
not, perhaps you would like to know
how it is done First they decide upon
the most out-of-the-way place they can
find; then they get together the most
unhealthy eatables they can find (un-
healthy things are always the best
tasting) and then they proceed to have
'jolly spread" which is in reality
nothing but an outlandish lunch.
Yankees have three characteristics
that of being very shrewd, being al
ways in hurry and never being able
TO return an umbrella.
Gertrude Ellen Watson.
Some Fighting Quakers.
Many anecdotes of the early Quakers
are preserved in Philadelphia, says
The Youths Companion, to show how
even under Penn's rule the impulses Of
human nature struggled against their
rigid laws of duty and submission.
Not few of the young men of Quaker
families served in the Revolutionary
army and in the navy in 1912, and
wore on the field their broad-brimmed
hats and shad-bellied coats.
It is said that one of these young
"Fighting Quakers,'' as they were
called. met his father ON the street on
his return home. The old man laid
his hand rebukingly on his sons arm,
saying: 1.-The wool in thy coat was
sheared from my sheep and woven in
my mothers loom, yet there is blood
on itr'
"And the blood is thy Blood" boldly
replied the young man. elf thou hadst
been 20 instead of 60, thou, too,
wouldst have fought under Washing
TOM
'.Zachariahe' stammered the old
man. ut may be so, Zachariah. Thou
hadst better go into thy dinner
A well-known story is that of
Friend who was in sailing vessel
boarded by British press-gang in
1912. He paced the deck with folded
arms during the fight, until he saw one
of the assailants climbing on deck by
means of cable.
Friend, dost thou want that rope?"
he said, calmly, hurrying up, knife in
hand. ''Thou shalt have it, and he
cut it. The man dropped into the sea.
A better authenticated story is that
of grave old Quaker, two of whose
sons went into the late civil war with
out his knowledge. The youngest son
was fired, as was almost every other
young man at that time, from Maine t
to Florida, with the wish to give his !
life for the cause which he believed /
just. He had accepted commission,
but he did not wish to go without his :
fathers consent.
He took occasion to make his pre-
parations rather ostentatiously in his :
fathers sight, laid out his officers uni
form, and tried to attract attention, |
but all in vain. AS a lost resort he /
seated himself in the room where the
Did man was pacing up and down, and
began to polish his sword.
His father watched him, with q face
growing palcr and with dim eyes. At ,
asst he went up to the young man and |
said, quietly: Samuel, if thee thinks
5hee must use one of those tools, buy
,he best and-I will pay forit, Samuel"