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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18
Y, IDAHO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1888

them in the future. Do not b,
afraid or ashamed, but do the bes
you can, and if you make such
mistakes they will be corrected and
you will not lose or suffer anything
by it. | warn you from the begin.
ming that if any one of you shall
return in debt, such debts shall not
be paid for you, or if it shall be
necessary TO pay them, you will
not escape punishment, and thus
you may know that whenever your
debts have to be paid you must re-
celve punishment. Do not believe
anything said to the contrary or
fancy that you can be extravaganza,
as some who have preceded you,
whose fathers were noblemen and
who have paid their debts without
objection. If you have this idea
you are entirely wrong. Your
father does indeed love his children,
but he does not love such couduct
in his children, for he certainly
knows that if he should allow YOU
to do so, it would be of no possible
benefit to the children who receive
his love, as you do not in that case
receive the education which l de-
sire you to obtain, but would gain
only practices which would dis
grace you and give continual an
noyance to others. You must al
ways remember that this money,
which seems large amount to you
now, is not as easily obtained as it
is expended. The yearly portion
which you always receive comes to
you through your father and the
money which your father receives
is that which comes to him as being
the ruler and sovereign of the
country and is the contribution of
the people for the support of their
sovereign. That he may enjoy it
with happiness, as a recompense
for his labors in his exalted posi-
ton, namely that of the guarding of
their welfare. This money should
not be spent for useless and injuri-
Ous purposes and should only be
for objects which will be
of real benefit to ones self and to
others.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18
Graphic Description Of a Boom.

Last summer [ overheard two
men talking as they were digging
away in the mines, and one said !:
"Jim, they say thar is a big bum
up at Rome"
"What's that?" said jim.
"Why hits kind of thing
whar one feller gifts nothing for
something"
"Why that's a faro bank or 3
lottery, amt it?" said Jim.
"No it amt. / tell you it's a
bum-a kind of new tradin' busi-
ness what swells and shrinks and
the sweller and shrinker stays down
in the cellar and works the machine.
They trade in stock"
Horses and mules?" said Jim.
"No, hits all on paper and no.
body can see what he is buying"
You put your money in and wait
for swell. If it comes you are all
right, but if shrink comes you
are busted, and you feel so ashamed
that you don't say anything about
it, and it never gets into the pa
pers-nothing but the swells gifts in
the paper. Bill Arp.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18
Grant and Ingalls, After Swearing Of.

l am reminded of story, long
since worn threadbare in army cir
cles, but which may be new to lay
men. When Generals Grant and
Ingalls, were young subalterns in
Oregon, they gave each other a
pledge to abstain from the use of
all intoxicants for one year. A
single exception was made to the
binding force Of this mutual prom
Use, viz: in the event of a rattle
snake bite it was to be declared off
or invalid. A week passed away
quietly enough, but not without q
thirst which was the more fervent
for not being disclosed. At last it
could be endured no longer. One
morning Lieutenant Grant was
awakened by hearing a tremendous
noise near his tent, and upon look
ing out, there was Lieutenant Ing
alls, barelegged and barefooted,
threshing around in the brush at q
great rate.
"Rufe," cried the future General
and President, what in - are
you doing?"
Surprised, but still intent upon
his object, his friend and comrade
replied:
"Looking for a rattlesnake, old
man, and l tell you, they are
hard to find. ."-Washington Capital.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18
WHAT A BLIZZARD Is.

] A blizzard is simply a strong
cold wind, moving unchecked over
leagues Of light, unpacked snow
1t sweeps up that which has previ.
Ously fallen, carries it away in the
color of vast shaken fleece, dis.
tributes it so that each atmospheric
atom has its little particle, and
drives along all with steady fury.
Whether fresh snow is falling can
seldom be determined by people
out in a real blizzard. AS far as
the eye can see upward, and that
is but little space, the hurry
of minute pellets hurting through
ether across an unrevealed sky
prevails, and the hurrying same
ness on every side is varied only
by occasional tall and bending
wraiths where the wind whirls in
shifting column. A confusion of
the senses, comparable to none pro-
duced otherwise, appals one sub
mitted to the enormous and blind
ing force of such snow-filled wind,
and scarcely distinct thought re-
mains except that the awful cold
forbids crouching for rest and shell
ter. To our personal knowledge,
one in such storm keeps with diff
ficulty upon a railway track lifted
three feet above the surrounding
prairie, and may be lost by five
steps the wrong way after stumb-
ling down from the embankment,
which, being white, becomes in
stantly invisible. It is recorded on
good authority that teamsters halt
ing with their horses have been
showed over thirty feet deep by
billiards, and have survived by
beating out breathing chambers till
the cessation Of the storm enabled
them to dig themselves to upper
air. The formation of drift about
a halted man, or horse, or sleigh,
is sometimes wonderful speedy, and
the drift once established grows by
virtue of its obstfuctiveness. In
some well-authenticated cases lost
persons have been found by the
drifts over them and dug out alive
in others, the spring has revealed
corpses still unthawed among the
last white relics of winter. In biz
yards people have often been un-
able to see across the street of
northwest town, and sometimes
men lose their direction in trying
70 reach the opposite side of we'll
Quilt way.-Toronto Globe.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18

goat dot make you look like the
Brince of Wales |"
"Not if it makes me look like
John L. Sullivan. I will rob no
man."
"Say, mine vriendt, vat you git
for dot goat?''
'1'll give you three dollars"
"Tree tolar. Ha! ha! ha! Per-
haps you dinks I keeps a sharity
bureau"
''Three dollars" preparing to
take the coat off.
"Say fife tolar."
"Three dollars"
"Say four tolar.''
"Three-."
"Dake it, dake it, dake it. '-Bos-
ton Courier.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18
Facts About Sealskius,


A sealskin as seen on the anima
is a very different thing from thai
seen on a lady's cloak. "The flu,
is not visible; it is concealed en-.
tirely by coat of stiff overhair
dull, gray-brown and grizzled." The
overhair must all be removed. 1t is
a long, laborious process by which
these pelts are made ready for their
final use. And because labor is
so much cheaper in the Old World
nine-tenths of these fur-seal skins
are dressed in London and then
sent out all over the civilized world.
There are practically no other seals
caught save those taken on the
Pribylov Islands by the Alaska
Commercial Company.
The average weight of q two
year-old skin is five and a halt
pounds; three-year-old skin, seven,
and of a four-year-old skin, twelve
pounds. 1t takes three skins to
make lady's sack, which is worth
anywhere from $75 up to $500.
This difference in price is seldom
due to q varience in the original
quality of the fur, but to the quail
ity of the work by which it is made
ready for wear. The carcass is left
to rot where the skin is taken of.
It requires about three years to rot
away, and, although 10000 of these
are annually decaying
almost within a stones throw Of
the village Of st. Paul's Island, yet
the people do not seem to suffer
any injurious effect ttherefrom. The
meat Of the young seals, if perfectly
cooked, is not bad eating, and some
Of the steaks will compare favora-
bly, with our beef or mutton.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18
SWore Off on New Years Day.

! Customer--"The coat is too large
/ tell you, Isaac. Why. man, i
hangs on me ike a sack"
Clothing Dealer (second-hand y
"Do you dinks this vas a coal yarc
or a grocery sdore, eh? Veil, il
wasn't! / gifts you goot measure
mine vriendt. I gifts you the worth
of your money. Vat you want init
a goat dot fit you like de paint on
a parper's bole, preezes blowing
through NIT you viskers, eh?
guess node. / gifts you plently cloth
to keep the cold ovid"
"But, hang it, man wants to be
as near the fashion as possible. ]
don't want to look like a clothes
pole wrapped in a blanket"
'Ho! Hoi you wants to be a
dude /! Ho J! no p
"No, I simply want to be decent
ly dressed"
'Vell, mine vriendt, dot goat
make you so. Let me see; turn
rount. Ha! you looks like Bresi-
dent Cleveland in dot goat. No,
you vas node as tall as Bresident
Cleveland. You vas aboud the
heighd Of the Brince of Wales, und
by shiminy you look shoost like
the Brince in dot goat. Not kvide
so sdoud, but shoost about id. Vot
did say was de brice of dot goat?"
"Seven dollars. "
"By shiminy gracious, I was rob
mincseluf if | sells dot goat for
seffen tolar. Dot was fifteen-tolar
goat"
s'But you offered it to me for
seven dollars"
''Vell, veil, dake it, dake it, dake
it. / dond go back on mine wort.
But vas rob mineseluf so helup
me gracious"
"You are robbing yourself by
giving it to me for seven dollars. .
$50 helup me gracious r.
"Well, then, I will rob no man. I
swore off all evil on New Years
Day and I am not going to begin
to rob people as early ~ this. /
Won't take the coat. "
"You wend daks dot goat9 Dot
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18
the MIRROR EXPOSED HIN.
Some Hints Upon the Art Of kissing
Other Mems Wives

Never kiss a young girl if sh
doesn't want you to. The main in
gredient that makes kissing endur
able is willingness on the part O
the female. If it deepens into anx
iety, so much the better. When
girl claws a mans hair and scratches
his face like little fool-drop he
at once. She is destitute of gooe
sense and natural affection, ane
the sooner you begin making Low.
to her sister the better. As Ions
as girl don't claw and yell anc
struggle like panther it's perfectly
safe to continue prospecting. Gel
a little behind her, pass the right
arm around the waist in front, take
her left hand in your left, and il
you don't know what to do next
go and associate with the boys in
Greenland.
If you are just beginning to teach
shy girl, who has only been kissed
heretofore by her brothers and
father, touch your lips gently to
her forehead. She will take this
for an exhibition of profound res
pect. That position gained, work
ing the way down the lips is as
natural and as easy as the course
of log sliding down stream.
Never sit down to kiss. It ap-
pears awkward in case anybody is
looking, and seems awkward any
how. Stand up, and the closer you
press the girl the higher estimate
she will place on your good taste,
common sense and experience.
Kissing married ladies is sep
arate branch of the art and requires
constant practice. While tender
ness and a little hesitation and
bashfulness if we'll put on go long
way with a young girl, such nom
sense is not swallowed by married
woman, to any considerable extent.
Be warm, vigorous and hearty, and
above all things be frequent. One
of the prime requisites on such an
occasion is quick ear for the foot
steps in the hall and nice calcu-
lation as to how long the husband
will take to reach the door after he
has passed the head Of the stairs. A
house heavily carpeted with Brus-
sells requires eternal vigilance and
sometimes rare presence of mind.
By the time the worser half of the
family gets his hand on the door
knob you must be seated in far
corner of the room seriously perus-
ng Talmage's sermon on Covet-
BUSINESS.
A kiss can sometimes be snatched
when the husband is in the room,
'ut this requires an expert and is
isky. Our young man once knew
IN instance. A married lady asked
Ter husband to wind the clock, and
| young man in the room thought
,e saw his golden opportunity and
vent for it. If the clock hadn't
lad a mirror just before the face
hat young man would have been
IL right; but for three weeks after
lis Sunday-school class had a
teacher and he had the ap-
'earance of having bucked against
cyclone. This is one Of the vicis-
itudes of kissing from mere i'm
ulse.-Barboursville (Ky.) News.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18

The KEYSTONE has long been acknowl-
edged to be the sole representative of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as it is in the
very heart OF the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth, and leav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers a
complete synopsis of all mining news and
developments, as well as matters of local
Importance in the growth of Ketchum, the
future metropolis of Idaho, it is an invalua-
Die guide for capital and Informant to the
settler OF every craft and position. Sub
scribe for 1t, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-18

to wash him OH the bank. When
he wants to get back in the water
he will roll himself over and lie
there till another wave comes along
ang carries him back. Of the two,
though, | believe the negro is the
lazier. He will lie all day in the
hot sand on the bank of a bayou,
and is actually too lazy to brush
the flies off his face" kansas City
Times
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21
senatos stewart on Lamar.

Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has
nublished three-column letter TO his
constituents in the New York Times,
on the subject of the confirmation Of
Lamar to the Supreme Bench. Our
Senator says:
II know of no other man who bore
arms against the United States in the
late war who has 80 unreseryclly ac-
cepted the verdict of arms and 40 I'M
euuivocally and continuously MAIN
tanned the validity of the new amend
ments to the constitution as Lamar.
Ii he is disqualified to fill the office
of Justice of the Supreme Court by
reason of his participation in the late
war, no person who ever bore arms
against tile United States can ever be-
come eligible to that office
The Nevada Senator ia closing says:
THE public press has so framed the
issue that the rejection of Lamar VIII
be construed both in the North and
in the South az declaration that his
participation in the war disqualified
him and all others occupying the same
position for place on the Supreme
Bench. | appeal to the Representa-
tives Of the great Republican States
of the North and West not to lend
their influence to cement union be-
tween New York and solid South.
Why should the South and West sep
crate on questions involving their
material interests? Why should the
South be compelled to do the bidding
of a single city of the North and her
people be subjected to policies adverse
to her most vital interests, under the
supposed necessity of resisting a pro-
scriptive policy of the Republican
party, when that party has never had
such policy, but, ON tie contrary,
has been, and now is and must con-
tinue friend of the South, always
ready and willing to aid in the devel-
opment of her prosperity Unless a
very different case can he presented
against Lamar from anything that has
come under my observation shall
deem it my duty TO vote for his con-
firmation and to advise other Repub-
llcan Senators to do So"
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21
FOR SALE!

THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS HIS VAL
4 uAhle Ranch for sale. stfHated ut thu haze
81 Jcn Davis Peak IN Suaks Valley. White
Pine County, Nevada. containing
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21
@arrien.

NEWTON-BoUNDY = In Taylor, January
II. 1889; ~ Justice Fltton, Frank W. New
ton and Miss Katie Boundy.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21

The following exhibit of land sold
by the State Land Office of Nevada
during the year 1887 furnished by the
Surveyor General, proves conelusively
that a genuine and steady boom has
prevailed throughout our State the
past year. There were 1908 applica-
tions TO purchase State lands filed,
covering 428, 7s3.03; acres. Applied
for in the several Counties of the State
as follows:
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21

nUWN Sea Wonders exist in Thousands a
IIkkP forms. but are surpassed By the mar.
86aA wells of invention. Those who are In
need of profitable work that can be
done while living at home should at once
send their address TO Hallett a Co., Portland
Maine, and receive free, full information how
either sex. ef all ages can earn from IS 10 S25
Per day and upwards wherever they live.
You are started free. Capital not required.
this work. All succeed.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21

In a single year many American de-
faulters have escaped to Canada, car
rying with them good portion of the
nearly 100000, which they have
stolen.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21
I9ien.

KELLY-At SIMPSONS Ranch. Spring Val.
ley, January II. 1888, John Kelly, native
OF Ireland, aged rs years.
bhADY-In Cherry Creek, December 81, 1887
William Brady, native Of Massachusett
aged IS years.
MOWkN-ln Cherry Creek, Janus,y 4. 1888.
6oyests.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21

The total value of the mineral pro-
ducts of the United States in 1887 is
officially reported as 1896. O00. 900. the
largest annual product yet recorded.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21

At Halleck, in Eko county. during
the late cold snap. the thermometer
went TO so below zero. Halleck 10
the coolest point in Eastern Nevada,
and mercury thermometers are no
good there when a cold wave sets in.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21

The L0velock correspondent of the
Silver State says cattle buyers arc Of
fering and S1S cents for prime al
falfa-fed beef.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21

Total In all funds. ....$i5,075 22-si5.075 "a
We hereby certify the foregoing to be the
true and correct statement Of the finance OF
White Pine County. Nevada, for the quarter
ending December 81, 1887.
A. ID. CAMPT0N, County Auditor.
j. ii. LOCKWOOD, County Treasurer.
SEAL, WIN. LAURENsoN.
County Clerk
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21

James Kimball was found frozen to
death ut Alta, Utah, last Monday
week.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-01-21
Bort.

BONNER-In Taylor, January ~. 1888, to the
wife OF p. Bonner, daughter
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-08

a little candy and prayer and piece OF cake
and faith in God and common sen'o' "Ds
begin this afternoon. -,
Rut how shall we get ready for one or az
% these three exploitsi We shall make
deod failure If in our own strength we try 70
save man or woman or child. But my UeA'
suooests where we are to get equipment
..The neonle that do know their God shan De
strong and do exploits.n We must know
Him through Jesus Christ in our own salva-
ton and then we shall have His help In the
salvation of Others. And while you are saw
inc strangers YOU may save some OF your own
lin Youthink YOUR brother and sisters ana
children and grand children all safe, but they
are NOT dead and no one is safe till he IS cead.
IN the English coast there was wild storm
and wreck in the offing and the cry was
.tMan the lifeboatp But Harry the usuai
leader of the sailors crew, was not 10 DC
found and they went without him ana
brought back all the shipwrecked people
excentinp one. BY this time Harry
the leader of the crew. appeared and SAID;
uWby did You leave that oneF Inc
answer was: ale could not help himself az
all and we could not get him into the boat
aWan the lifeboatr' shouted Harry, ana
we will 90 for that onen "No,n said his
aged mother, standing by, 'You must not
90. lost your father in storm IKE this'
and your brother win went of six years
ago and have not heard a word from WIN
since he left, and don't know where ne -,
and / don't know what has happened 70
him, poor Will and can not let you also go,
for / am old and dependent on you
His reply was: "Mother, ! must go ana
save that one man, aud if | am lost God
will take care of you in your old days
The lifeboat put out, and after an
awful struggle with the sea they
picked the poor fellow ont OF the
rigging Just in time 10 save his life, and
started for the shore. And as they came
within speaking distance, Harry, just before
he tainted from the over exertion, cried OUT
1--WE saved him, and tell mother 1t was
brother Will" o, yes, my friends, let US
start out to save some one for time ana eler-
nifty. some man. some woman. some child.
And who know, but it may, directly or indi-
rectly be the salvation OF one Of our own
kindred. aud that viii be an exploit worthy
of celebration when the world itself is ship
wrecked. and the sun has gone out like
spark from a uitcon anvil. and all the stars
are dead