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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-11
Lucky Baldwin's Ranch.

The following notes were taken
by the Philadelphia Press from a
letter written by George H. Clark
son, well-known sporting gentle
man of that city, who is now So
journing in California: Lucky Bald
wins ranch, Sana Anita, comprises
some ffty-four thousand acres, di-
vided into departments of agricul-
ture, vinyards, orange groves and
stock-raising farms. Eighty-hye
thousand dollars were spent to
perfect the water system alone,
which is one of the most complete
in the world. The agricultural
department raises almost every
thing grown from the earth and a
fortune is realized therefrom every
year. An idea may be formed OF
the vast extent of it's cultivation
from the fact of the reaping ma
chimes being employed about forty
five consecutive working days so
far away from home. last harvest
that the laborers had to camp out,
cook their own food and sleep in
tents. The vinyards are the finest
in California. Brandies from two
weeks to twelve and fourteen years
old and wines that are as expensive
as the foreign brands, are stored In
immense vaults, lined with avenues
of casks that hold as much as 1000
gallons each. The orange groves,
extending for miles, are said to
Weld a profit of $4,000 per annum,
not to say anything of other fruits
and nuts, which are raised in great
abundance. But Lucky Baldwln's
pride is his horses, and verltably
Santa Anita ranch is their paradise,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-11
How It Feels In Time Of Battle.

A lad asked General Averill how
he felt in his first battle. The Gen
eral said Leaving out of consid-
Grafton some twenty-odd Indian
fights in which | was engaged be-
fore the war, and in one Of which 1
was wounded so as to be obliged to
walk on crutches for nearly two
years, will state that my first fight
was Bull Run, in 1861. My feeling
on entering the battle was, as | saw
the enemy Fastening TO their posi-
ton, that there was a great and
useless crime about to be commit
ted; !; the second, as l can remember
the whistling and hustling of the
first solid shot from the enemy
through the trees and tearing along
the ground, was of the fierce and
terrible force Of a cannon-ball !;
next I was startled, amazed and
horrifed to see man who had
been hit on the head by fragment
of shell springing about and she'd
ding blood like 4 chicken with its
head just stricken off. After that
wonder at the excitement, amount
ing to a kind of delirium, of our
chief commanders, who galloped
about yelling to any one who would
keep still enough to listen about
what the enemy were doing, and
generally calling for reinforcements
like frightened idiots; then the
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-11
DIsHORNING AND DOCKING.

Societies for the prevention of
cruelty to animals have brought to
book the mutilators of live stock,
both dishorners and tail dockers,
but in each case the defendants
have pleaded custom and profit and
have come off victorious. One of
the latest instances of invoking the
power of the law to prevent the
docking of horses tails came up in
an English court not long since,
when two men were arraigned for
docking a lot of eight horses, two
of which died of lockjaw as the re-
suit of the operation. The prose-
cutor pointed to the cruelty and
uselessness of the operation, which
he declared, was practiced merely
as freak of fashion, and asked a
decision from the Court deprecat-
ing the practice. One of the de-
PENDANTS answered that he had
made it business to dock horses
and had operated on over one hun
dred each year without loss up to
the cases alluded to. He alleged
general belief that docking the tails
made horses stronger and frmer in
their backs, and that it certainly
helped their appearance and value.
The Court found for the defendants,
and declared that docking, when
properly performed, was useful.
Just what physiological laws were
cited to prove that docking horses
tails makes them stronger and firmer
in their back we do not know, but
we imagine that well-informed per-
sons can scarcely repress a smile at
statement which savors so much
of ignorance and superstition. We
are glad that this senseless practice
obtains but little in this country.
The only beneficial results that can
arise from it is the possible con-
venience of keeping the lines from
under the tail in driving, but NO
reinsman who prides himself on his
skill in Handling the ribbons" will
resort to any such scheme. To
sensible admirers of the horse a
long flowing name and tail are es-
sentials to beauty and additions to
value.-Breeder and Sportsman.
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Hard Condition Of Peasant Women.

In the spring and early summer
of last year we travelled from Italy
in the south to the far north, SEEM
ing to follow the season for cutting
the grass and getting in the hay,
for this season commences very
early in Northern Italy and grows
later as you travel north. We found
the same to be true in all countries
alike. The women of the lower
classes not only did the work of
the house, but they shared in all
the drudgery and toll of what we
call manual labor. Italy, Switzer-
land, Germany, Holland, Denmark,
Sweden and Norway, always the
same. We found the men moving,
the women raking; the men driv-
ing the teams. the women pitching
on the hay. In Norway, the men
catching the fish, the women car
rying them to market. And not
alone in these clean and compare
lively agreeable occupations, but
in others far less inviting, the wo-
men perform their share at least of
the toll. 1t was a frequent remark,
How pretty the girls; how ugly
the women" And easily explained.
We have seen and are seeing daily
young girls and old women carry
ing on their backs burdens which
make them stagger, and tramping
along by their sides are the men,
without packs themselves and not
offering the least assistance to their
companions. The result is that the
women are deformed, losing at
thirty all trace of youth and beauty,
while the men are erect and often
noticeable for their fine physique.
Such is the condition of the peas
ant women in Europe.-Cor. Bos-
ton Journal.
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Philosophy Of Good Clothes.

It is curious what an influence
good clothes have upon man, and
especially a woman. A man with
his Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
on won't do questionable things
that he would do in his everydays.
And as for a woman, she is nobody
if she is not dressed neat and clean.
Just let her get sloven and her ears
be dirty, and she will go to abusing
the neighbors right straight. |
don't allude to fnery and frills and
flowers and furs and tomfooleries,
for all the women can't afford them,
but every woman can look neat. A
snow-white collar sets off woman
more than whimadeddle hump in
the background. We can see the
one and admire it's surroundings,
but the other is terra incognito.-
Atlanta Constitution.
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VALUE OF The FIRST IMPRESSION.
Resemblance In Feature as Indications
of Character.
Chicago Tribune.

"How do you come to be such a
good judge of human nature?" l
said recently to one of the oldest
and most successful detectives in
the city. "By the observance of
one simple rule" he replied. II
cling to my first Impressions of
man, and govern myself by them to
the end. Perhaps might add an
other rule, and it is this-if mans
personal appearance reminds me, at
first sight, of another man, / con-
clude that the resemblance extends
to character also. IF you will adopt
these two rules and act on them a
few years you will be just as good
a judge of men as [ am. / remem-
ber that twenty years ago rather
venerable looking man called on
me, said he was a minister, and
asked me to subscribe 81 to some
benevolent object. I declined, and
when he had gone got to thinking
how much he reminded me of
noted horse-thief at the East that
we used to call Cheeky Joe. Well,
about ten years afterward I was
looking for stolen horse. l did a
good deal of hard work on the
case, and at last got on the trail of
the thief. He lodged around from
place to place, but l kept close up
behind him. When / looked him
over I said to him: Why, l have
seen you somewhere?' Very likely;
I've been there he replied. Said
I, Amt you a minister2' No. he
said, I amt no minister. / was
working that racket, though, when
you saw me last It was the very
man whose resemblance to another
horse-thief l had noticed ten years
before"
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Coolies and Negroes in Trinidad.

There is little crime among the
negroes, who quarrel furiously, but
with their tongues only. The coolies
have the fercer passions of their
Eastern blood. Their women be-
ing very few are tempted occasion
ally into infdelities, and would be
tempted more often but that lapse
in virtue is so fearfully avenged. A
coolie regards his wife as his prop
erty, and if she is unfaithtul to him
he kills her without the least hesi
tation. One of the Judges told me
he had tried a case of this kind, and
could not make the man under
stand that he had done anything
wrong 1t is a pity that a closer
intermixture between them and the
negroes seems so hopeless, for it
would solve many difficulties.
There is no jealousy. The negro
does not regard the coolie as COM
petitor and interloper who has come
to lower bis wages. The coolie
comes to work. The negro does
not want to work, and both are
satisfied. But if there is no jeal-
ousy, there is no friendship. The
two races are more absolutely apart
than the white and the black. The
Asiatic insists the more on his su-
periority in the fear, perhaps, that
if he did not the white might for
get it.-From "The English in the
West Indies," by James Anthony
Froude.
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He Sized Him Up.

Gentlemanly Traveler-You seem
to be alone, sir. Will you join our
game?
Churlish Traveler-No, sir and
let me say to you, sir, that you have
made a grave mistake in asking a
prohibitionist to assist in that un-
godly whist iniquity!
G. TT beg ten thousand par
dons, my dear sir, though the fact
that I failed to recognize your holy
calling is we'll nigh objectionable.
Try this. The top opens with a
spring, and don't unscrew.
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4 cRIspIN's WISDOM.
The Science of Feet with National and
Individual Pecularities.

Yes, SAID q gray-headed shOe-
maker, on whose venerable forehead
the bump of thought stood out like
a Westinghouse in fog, Il have
not been adjusting boots and shoes
to feet size too large for them all
my life without picking up many
life-sized nuggets of wisdom. There
is good deal to be learned about
feet, and have made close study
of them for twenty years and f1atter
myself have the science down
finer than Cleopatra's needle or any
body else. l have fitted shoes, sir,
in every country of the world in
habited by the Caucasian race, and
| have fitted shoes to the feet OF
every nation on the globe except
Hottentot and Esquimaux.
''The Spanish" continued Girls
pin, "are generally supposed to
have the prettiest feet in the world,
but I do not think so, although
they are certainly the smallest. The
foot is very slender and the instep
extraordinarily high, result, in a
large measure, of the constitutional
antipathy of the people to walking,
as Spaniard will ride on horseback
when he has to beg for living.
The Germans have strong, stocky,
we'll developed feet, inclined to be
short, but many of them shapely
for all that. The French foot is
smaller boned and rounder in out
line, graceful, agile foot, not SO
slender as the Spanish, but longer
than the German. 1t does not lack
strength but is more remarkable
for quickness and agility. All the
Distinguishing qualities of the ma
tons are embodied in its makeup.
1t is no slouch of a foot, l tell you.
The Holland foot is very different
from either the Teutonic or Gallic.
1t is longer than either and lower.
l have seen little, thin Holland
women but four feet high, with feet
a foot long, as sure as you live.
They have the longest, lowest feet
of any nation on the globe, except
perhaps, the negro, whose foot ex-
ceeds the Holland ia length of heel
although it somewhat resembles it
in general makeup. The Mexican
foot is a modification of the Span
ish. It is trif1e longer and not
quite so classical in outline. The
Chinese have a pretty foot, short,
small-boned and quite shapely.
"How about the American pedal
extremity?'
"Ah that is to a certain extent
in formation, not fully crystalized
into a type. It is composite foot,
lighter and daintier than the Eng
lish or Teuton, more nervous and
longer than the French, stronger
and more developed than the
Spanish, fated to be the finest, most
shapeIy foot of the world, and par
taking somewhat of the good quai-
tiles of all. Of course, sir, there
are individual variations upon all
these types, but 1 would bet all /
have got that if I had in a room
100 representatives of the leading
nations and could only see their
feet I could tell the nationality of
each every time"
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The Place for Fighting Parsonk.

The Episcopal Bishop Garret of
Texas wants clergymen in his juris-
diction. "But they must be-" he
says, "men who know how to take
care of themselves along the from
tiers. Brave, sturdy fellows, not
afraid of the open mouth of a re-
volver nor the yell of drunken
cowboy. Men with muscles of steel,
who can, any of them, throw a
yearling steer over wire fence as
easily as he can jerk lawless coy
ote out of a religious meeting if he
attempts to make a disturbance" !"
Such men are not picked up in the
theological seminaries every day.
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THE OLD-TIME PR0sPECToR.

The typical old-time prospector
is becoming scarce in Colorado, and
is now rarely met with except in the
frontier camps. There was time,
and not many years past, when all
the large towns in the state were
filled at this time of the year with
returning prospectors, who were
driven in from the mountains by
the first heavy snowfalls. Now,
however, few of this character of
people are to be seen, even in the
outlying towns of Leadville, George
town and Gunnison. The business
of prospecting has experienced an
evolution during the past few years
that is often commented upon by
the pioneers of the state. In years
past it was customary for the rest
less and adventurous spirits to take
to the mountains every spring, os-
tensibly to prospect for veins of au-
riferous placers. Those who could
not supply themselves with the
necessary provisions and pack bur-
ros were "grub-staked," and it was
indeed a luckless fellow who could
not secure enough grub to take
him to the nearest foothills and al
low him to live a comfortable camp
life for few months. 1t was in
this way that the remote sections
were opened up and the resources
of the state discovered and brought
to notice.
Gradually the entire country was
pretty thoroughly gone over, and
prospecting on general principles,
or. wherever fancy might suggest,
has been abandoned. The all-round
prospector has been relegated, and
more systematic methods have been
adopted in the search for ore. 1t Is
no longer expected that a man will
penetrate unknown regions and
stumble upon bonanzas unawares
To prospect now means to go out
to some defined spot, usually near
the railways, where the ore, if any
can be encountered, can be shipped
to market, and there prospect a
vein by digging into it, or sinking
a shaft in search of a deposit likely
to be encountered, on account of
the favorable geological formation.
The cars are used in getting to the
place, and the days of the pros
pector are employed in drilling and
picking, instead of aimlessly wan
dering over mountains and through
gulches and parks with an eye to
the next good camping, possibly
before the smoke of the last camp
fire has disappeared from view.
Then, too, the depth of the shaft or
length of the tunnel must bear wit
ness to the amount of work done,
and not a meandering line drawn
over a soiled map, to show an al
legged travelled route. No, the old
time prospectors as class are rap
idly dying out in Colorado, and
those who follow it now should be
classed rather as miners than pros
pectors, for as miners they have a
fixed purpose and a determination
to accomplish something, which
could not always be said of many
of the men who regarded all mate
rial gold that glittered, and with
whom the greatest strike was a
sucker who was willing to grub
stake them.-Denver Republican.
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Appropriate.

"Was the deceased man of fam
ily?" inquired the tombstone agent
as he made memorandum of the
design selected and wrote the in
scription in his order book.
'He had been married three
times," was the reply.
"The motto AT rest would just
fit this blank space below the in
scription," suggested the agent, de-
ferentiall ly-Chicago Tribune.
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ratus is very simple one, and is
made on the mower or reaper prin-
ciple. 1t does not require highly
skilled person to work it. Any
farm hand can learn how to oper-
ate it in ten days.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-11

AN Atlanta, Ga, editor, after try
ing for four years to get his lawn
covered with grass, advises his read
ers to use Persian rugs. He states
that they can be obtained for 800
each, and at that price they come
cheaper than grass, while they last
longer and are quite as pretty.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-11

Sheedy, motioning the onlookers
to stand back, "you know your
God too we'll to make break at
me. The first time will be your
last time, for I'll put daylight
through your ID tool head in a
minute"
John L. put out his open hand.
"You know don't mean it, Sheedy.
What's the use of US quarreling?"
And in another minute they were
cooling together like pair of doves.
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A Monumental Warning.

There is grim monument erected
in the Atchison, Kan, Public Gene
terry, placed there by Mrs. Richard
Harris, who still resides in the city
with her two children, and who
seems to have wished to make the
peculiar death of her husband a
lesson to all young men who might
visit the place of burial. The mon
ument as described by a correspon-
dent, is a dull-red granite shaft,
broad at the base and taporing to-
ward the top, and stands on a slope
some fifty feet back from the main
road. The image of a snake, about
as large as mans arm, is wound
about it from the base to the apex.
On the four sides of the pedestal
is engraven, in large, plain letters,
this inscription:
RICHARD HARRIS,
Died Feb. Is, 1877,
of Delirum Tremens,
Aged Al Years
IN. Y. World.
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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
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-
BILE guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-11

Mrs. Muggs-"Muggs, you are
wretch" Mr.. Muggs-"Why, why.
My dear, what" Mrs. Mugs
"Don't dear me, villain. Didn't
you tell me that typewriter was a
machine?" Mr.. Muggs-"And SO
it is" Mrs. Muggs-"1ndeed!
Then why did Mrs. Wilkins say
that your typewriter had beautiful
blonde hairW
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-11
SHORT SERMON FOR BOYS.

Most boys and girls do not like
sermons-they say they are too
long for their highnesses. Perhaps
they may like these short sermons.
They will give food to think over,
and must not be read too hastily.
A Swedish boy fell out of a win
dow and was badly hurt, but, with
clenched lips, he kept back the cry
of pain. The King, Gustavus Adol-
phus, who saw him fall, prophesied
that the boy would make man
for an emergency. And so he did,
for he became the famous General
Bauer.
A boy used to crush the flowers
to get their celor, and painted the
white side of his fathers cottage in
Tyrol with all sorts of pictures,
which the mountaineer gazed at as
wonderful. He was the great artist
Titan.
An old painter watched a little
fellow who amused himself making
drawings of his pot and brushes,
easel and stool, and said: "That
boy will beat me one day" So he
did, for he was Michael Angelo.
A German boy was reading
Observation-Disclosures novel. Right in
the midst of it he said to himself:
snow this will never do. l get too
much excited over it. [ can't study
SO we'll after it. So here goes 7"
and he flung the book out into the
river. He was Fichte, the great
German philosopher.
Do you know what these little
sermons mean? Why, simply this,
that in boyhood and girlhood are
shown the traits for good or evil
that make the man or woman good
or not.-Jewish Messenger.
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Perhaps one good reason for the
failure of the tramp to exercise his
muscles saving wood for his meals
is that he is afraid of the nigger in
the woodpile.-Rochester Post-Ex.
DroaS.
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If halfthe new railways for which
charters have been granted are ever
built in Kansas, farmers will be
obliged to plant their potatoes be-
tween the ties-Topeka Capital.
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woeful lack of a capable comman-
der of all our forces with head
quarters was felt; and, to skip to
the last, uncomfortable indignation
and modification at the failure of
our army to win the battle, as with
the rear we withdrew from the field.
The only consolation to be found
was to know that the enemy was
not much, if any, better off than our
selves in efficient handling. / trust
you will never be called upon to
undergo such trying sensations"
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Ghearing Sheep By Machinery.

The exorbitant wages demanded
by sheep shearers in Australia has
in the introduction of
sheep-shearing machinery. The
first public trial of the machine
took place in Melbourpe, and was
witnessed by wool-groW6zs- from all
parts Of the country. The appa3
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-02-11

The man who sits in the corner
of lot and waits for an old COW
to back up to be MIXED will q
without milk oil his days.
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PROFESSIONAL.

ro u RATTES VIM. HYNDMAN.
HYNDMAN & BATTEN,
Attorne s-a tt a w /,
V,.cbnm. Idaho.-Practice in all the Courts
and Land Offices.
National Republican., 1888-04-11

MR.. W. w. GREENWELL, 225 A STREET
WI Southeast, Teacher of Piano. Beginners
a speciality, Terms moderate. If