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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
How to Entertain Well.

A hostess should think twice be-
fore she invites people to her house.
She should be so generous as to
let her friends alone unless she
wishes to treat them we'll. Then,
having made up her mind to invite
them, she must remember that,
from that moment she is their
slave. She is to be all attention
and all suavity. If she has nothing
to offer them but a cup of tea, she
must make it a "beaker full Of
the warm South" by her manner.
In the smallest house, the humblest
surroundings, the hostess is queen
and she must be gracious. Ii she
is not she is a snob, a vulgarian
and a poor creature, no matter II
her husband is a millionaire, pres
ident or great scholar. A lady
should be very particular to specify
whom she wishes to see, and no
lady should go to strange house
unlimited, on the spoken belief OF
some other person that she will be
welcome. Still less should a gentle
man presume too much. A young
gentleman may be taken by mar
ried lady, who is all powerful, to a
ball, as she is supposed to lndorse
his respectability, but it is always
better for him to leave his card,
and for him to receive an invita-
ton. If, however, through any mis-
apprehension, a person gets into q
house uninvited, hostess should
never show by word or manner that
she observes it. The very fact that
a person has crossed her threshold
gives, for the moment, that person
q claim on the politeness of a hos
tess.-Mrs. John Sherwood.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
Fifty Years Hence.

That is but a short time. The
aged men and women of the pres
ent day look at the passage of
the last half century as dream
that is past. And yet what
changes have been made in the po-
litical and domestic economy of
the United States. But what are
to be the results and lessons of the
next fifty years? The population
of the United States will then be at
least 100000. Where are they
to live and what are they to eat?
At present it takes about six bush
els of wheat per capita to feed the
inhabitants, taking now about $780,
100000 bushels. Fifty years hence,
with a population of 150,OOO,OOO,
at the same rate, it will take 9OO,-
100000 bushels. Where is it to
come from and where is it to be
raised? Wheat is desolator and
leaves barrenness in its track.
While the wheat area is being
pushed northwest and into the val
leys of the mountains the area be-
hind is being closed up. The Gen.
essee country, the Western Reserve,
the Wabash valley and the grand
prairies of Illinois, so celebrated in
their several periods as prolific OF
wheat, have long since been aband-
oned as feasible fields for wheat
raising. Illinois, Iowa, Missouri
and Wisconsin are following suit.
Then where are the 9OO,OOO,OOO
bushels to come from annually to
feed 15O,OOO,OOO Of inhabitants?
There are no new worlds to discover.
The entire face of the earth is known.
But the United States has nothing
to dread. 1t has the great corn
field of the world, which produces
the most nutritious human food.
Its roots do not desolate the soil.
By proper care and wise farming
equal crops can be raised for l 200
years in succession, and the human
race may never fear a lack of food.
The population of the world may
be three times that at present, and
the corn area of the United States
can produce enough of this rich
and nutritious cereal to feed the
world.-Des Moines Register.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23

people who like stimulating food.
At a picnic this month l sold ten
barrels of it, dealt out in saucers.
Doesn't that show that it is a favor
ite article of food? The business
of making sauerkraut is confined
to a very few people in the city:
They buy the cabbages-hard and
compact heads are the best-cut it
up, salt it down and allow it to fer
ment. Then they sell it to the places
where it is retailed, and at these the
last touches of flavor are added. 1t
is these last touches that make the
difference in sauerkraut, and some
times the quality of the kraut at
one place will be so much better
than that at others that lovers OF
the dish will travel from one end OF
the town to the other to taste 1t.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
# the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region.

the world?" How may sensible,
well-educated people in Boston feel
unpleasantly when mirror is brok-
en- in the house. Thousands. How
many consider it i'll luck to see the
new moon over the wrong shoulder?
More thousands. Not so many, but
still very many, cannot be tempted
to pass under ladder. II people
right here at home, having the ad-
vantage of schools, churches, books,
newspapers, and their own common
sense, cling to these senseless super
stitions, how can the "heathen in his
blindness" be expected to renounce
his, which are not one particle
more ridiculous.-Boston Budget.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
The Greatness of London.

Every four minutes marks birth.
In the next two hours after you
read this thirty babies have been
born, and twenty deaths have taken
place. Think of it! The evening
papers that records the births and
deaths of the preceding four and
twenty hours must give 3OO sepa,,
rate items. Verify, its joys and
sorrows are multitude. London
has 7 900 miles of streets, and II you
walked them at the rate of 20 miles a
day you would have to walk almost
a year, and more than a year oy
nearly so days, if you should rest
on Sundays. And if you were q
thirsty sort of a traveller, and could
not pass a public house, don't De
alarmeJ-the 1000 miles have five
and-seventy miles Of public houses
so you need not think of thirst. In
a year London folks swallow down
500 900 oxen, 1000, 900 sheep, 2OO,.
calves, 300, 600 swine, 8,O0O,OO(
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
A Cure for Gossip.

"What is the cure for gossip?
Simply culture. There is great
deal of gossip that has no malignity
in it. Good-natured people talk
about their neighbors because they
have nothing else to talk about.
AS we write there comes to US the
picture of family of young ladies.
We have seen them at home, We
have met them in galleries of art,
we have caught glimpses of them
going from a bookstore or library
with fresh volume in their hands.
When we meet them they are full
of what they have seen and read.
They are brimming with questions.
One topic of conversation is dropped
only to give place to another, in
which they are interested. We have
left them after delightful hour,
stimulated and refreshed; and dur
ing.the whole hour not neighbor's
garment was soiled by so much as
touch. They had something to
talk about. They knew something
and wanted to know more. They
could listen as we'll as they could
talk. To speak freely of a neigh
boris doings and belongings would
have seemed an impertinence to
them, and, of course, an improprie-
ty. They had no temptation to
gossip, because the doings of their
neighbors formed a subject very
much less interesting than those
which grew out of their knowledge
and their culture.
"And this tells the whole story.
The confirmed gossip is always
either malicious or ignorant. The
one variety needs change of heart.
and the other a change of pasture.
Gossip is always personal confes-
sion, either of malice or imbecility,
and the young should not only
shun it, but by most thorough cul.
ture relieve themselves from all
temptation to indulge in it. It is
a low, frivolous, and, too often, a
dirty business. There are neigh
borhoods in which it RACES like a
pest. Churches are split in pieces
by it. Neighbors are made enemies
by it for life. In many persons II
degenerates into a chronic disease
which is practically incurable. Let
the young cure it while they may ,
DIR. J. G.. Holland.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
He Got Even.

The following story is told about
John Mackey, the well-known man.
ager Of Mr.. Haggin's Rancho del
Paso estate. Mackey is considered
a pretty shrewd hand and prides
himself upon it. 1t seems that some
time since Mackey sold some brood
mares and advertised them to be
Gin foal," but did not state to which
horse. Mr.. Holly, of Cleveland,
was one of the purchasers and fre-
quently importuned Mackey to tell
him to which horse his mare was
bred. Mackey, however, always
evaded the question. Imagine Mr..
Holly's disgust when the marc
foaled mule. Holly was not to 60
unavenged, however, and to get even
has named the mule John Mackey.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23

head of fowls, 5OO,OO0,OOO pounds
of fish, 50O,OO0,O0O oysters, 2OO,-
100000 lobsters-is that enough to
figure on? If not there are some
million tons of canned provisions,
no end of fruit and vegetables, and
50,O0O,OO0 bushels of wheat. But
how they wash all the food down
you might be glad to know. It
takes 2OO,O00,O0O quarts of beer.
But more than this, they drink 1O,-
100000 quarts of rum and 5O,OO0,-
600 quarts of wine-the wine, the
rum, the beer, 260,O00,O00 quarts.
London Telegraph.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
We're All Superstitious.

The missionaries report that the
greatest obstacle they meet with IN
their work is the superstition of the
people. Is it so very different with
civilized, enlightened people right
here in New England? How many
hundreds Of mothers are there who
will not let their infants look into
a mirror until they have passed
certain age? How many more are
there who insist that their little
ones must be carried up stairs be-
fore they are carried down stairs,
to the end that they may rise ID
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
A Shepherd Dog. w orth Having.

A reporter was informed recently
of a remarkable example of sagac-
ity, understanding and obedience
in a dog. The animal is what is
called shepherd dog, is 10 years
old, was born in Montana and can
not understand English, the man
who raised him being a Mexican.
This Mexican is now in the en-
ploy of Mr.. Schiappa Pietra as a
sheep-herder, and in his duties is
ably assisted by his dog.
About week ago he laid the fol-
lowing extraordinary wager with
one of his employers. He bet his
dog and a years work against 500
that the dog would stay on the
ranch alone, unattended by any be-
ing for five days; that the animal
would take the sheep to pasture IN
the morning and bring them to the
corral at night, and in fact look
out for the sheep in every way as
we'll as a man could.
The bet was taken and the Mexi-
can, first hanging up plenty of meat
for the dog to eat, gave his instruc.
tons to his dumb assistant and
left the ranch, coming to town:
Last Monday the money was paid
over by Mr.. Schiappa Pietra, the
dog having carried out, for tive
days, the instructions of his master
and winning the wager for him.
The Mexican says his employers
are very rich (and they are), but
that they have not money enough
to buy that dog.-Ventura Vidette
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
Didn't Think Of English.

A good story is told of two
young Americans travelling in Eu-
rope. They had never thoroughly
mastered any of the languages COM
monty spoken on the continent and
were particularly weak in their
French, knowing that language we'll
enough by sight, but not having
a speaking acquaintance with it.
Finding themselves in small
French town one evening they were
desirous of having a good cup of
coffee. Knowing that cafe was cof-
fee and that lait was milk, they en-
deavored to call for a judicious mix
ture of the two, but their ortheopy
was of so remarkable an order that
they succeeded only in getting the
coffee.
"Cafe au late" they tried without
success. Then "du lay it" was at
tempted unavailingly. The sugges.
ton that lait might be pronounced
light was adopted, equally in vain
Finally, in despair, one Of the
struggling youths exclaimed, "Well
it's mighty queer we don't know
enough to get a little milk !"
"Do you want milk?' asked the
waitress, opening her mouth for the
first time.
"Y-yes," stammered the travellers
overwhelmed with surprise.
"Then why didn't you say so II
the first placer" queried the girl, a.
she founced off.
And again the young men didn'
know.-Harper's Magazine.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
SURGICAL PROGRESS.

Formerly one Of the most dan
gerous operations known was the
removal of goitres. Hemorrhage,
inflammation and blood-poisoning
destroyed very large number OF
cases, and when Kocher, Of Berne,
in 1882, reported So operations with
a mortality of only 14.3 per cent,
it was deemed triumph. But i'm
proved methods of operation re-
duced the mortality until, in 1884,
he reported 43 more operations, with
only mortality of SO per cent,
and in 1889 he has just reported
$50 additional operations, and all
but 6 patients recovered-a mortal
ity of but "a per cent, or, If we ex-
clude 25 cases of cancer, which gave
4 Of the deaths, we have 225 cases
and only 2 deaths-a mortality OF
but O.8 per cent.
We see few cases of severe knock
knee and bow-legs in this country,
but among the ill-fed lower classes
of Europe they are common. For
merly almost nothing could be done,
but few years ago surgeons began
to operate upon them in this way ::
A small cut is made through the
skin and muscles down to the bone,
and by a saw or chisel the bone is
divided. The limb is then straight
ened and the case treated precisely
as if it were an ordinary fracture.
It heals without fever or serious
pain, and the patient is well. With
modern methods this is not dan
gerous operation, as will be seen by
the remarkable paper read by Mac
even of Glasgow at the Interna-
tional Medical Congress of 1884 in
Copenhagen, when he reported l.
800 operations on 1,267 limbs in
7O4 patients, and only five died, in
spite of the fact, too, that most OF
them from deformity in several
limbs, had to have multiple opera
tions. Even these deaths were not
due to the operation, but followed
from pneumonia, typhoid fever,
consumption and diphtheria.
We have learned, too, that por-
tions of the body can be entirely
severed, and, if suitably preserved
can be replaced, and they will ad-
here and grow as if nothing had
happened. When a wound is slow
in healing we now take bits of skin,
either from the patients own body
or provided by generous friends, or
even from dogs, and graft" them
on the surface of the wound, they
usually adhere, and as they enlarge
at their margins they abridge by
one half the time required for heal
ing. Even large disk of bone, one
or two inches in diameter, when re.
moved from the skull, can be SO
treated. It is placed in a cup filled
with warm antiseptic solution,
This cup is placed in basin OF
warm water, and it is the duty Of
one assistant to see that the ther-
mometer in this basin shall always
mark 100 deg. to 105 deg. Fahren.
heit. The bone may be separated
from the skull so long as one OF
two hours, but if properly cared for
can be replaced, and will grow fast
and fulfill it's accustomed but in.
terrupted duty of protecting the
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23

The KEYSTONE has long been acknowl.
edged to be the sole representative OF the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtootn
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 :
developments, as we'll as matters OF local
importance in the growth of Ketchum, tho
future metropolis OF Idaho, it is an invalna-
ble guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position: SUP
scribe for it, read it, and let your frlenos
read what may benefit them.
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saaang, AaIrcuttiug and ShampooIng
DONE IN FIRST-CLASS STYLE.
Notice for Publication.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,

Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
June %, 1880.
notice Is hereby given that the following
!:alned lame settler has filed notice Of her inten-
eIn: Ion u make final proof in support OF her
tam ian n and that said proof will be made be-
IGLJ IJoI me Register and Receiver at Haley,
IpGidho' piaat' on July q, 1885, viz: Mary a.
hInoIl MEME Tor the lot S, block 40, and lot s,
top, h,pvA oo, town of Ketchum, idaho Terri
che names the following witnesses to
prove nrI.: her continuous residence upon, and
Ta,'i,Vation Tm,, az of, said land, viz Geo. Lewis,
fnni. fT.mni Rasmussen. Jo1e,1T. = Holman, -
'es's, al! Of Ketck ,r,'i tdobo -
H RILI.INGa, Registef!z
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
FEMININE WARRIORS.
The Amazon Army Of the King
of Siam.

The King of Siam formerly had
real Amazonian guard of 400
members. This guard consisted of
the most beautiful and the strong
est young women in his kingdom.
Every recruit had to be at least 13
years old, and of almost perfect
physical development. After serv-
ing twelve years she was retired to
the reserve corps. An active guards
woman was a personal life guard of
his Siamese Majesty. A reserve
guardswoman, however, had merely
the duty af watching the royal pal
aces and the crown estates. Every
recruit, before she was admitted to
the Amazonian guard, took the
oath of chastity, for the King of
Siam allowed only women of the
strictest virtue in his personal mil
itary service. The Amazonian corps
wore most elaborate uniforms. A
fine, white, gold-embroidered wool
en- skirt hung down to the knees.
Over this each wore light coat Of
mail. The arms were bare. The
head was covered with a golden
helmet.
At court feasts and on national
holidays the Amazons carried only
lances in their right hands. They
handled these lances with all the
expertness of drum-maors, twirl-
ing, twisting and tossing them as
they marched and countermarched
before their critical sovereign. Gen
orally, however, the Amazons car
ried muskets. The corps consisted
of four companies of one hundred
Amazons each, commanded by fe-
male captains. Immediately after
the death of an Amazonian COM
mander the King critically reviewed
the leaderless division, and after
three days thought over the sub
ject promoted the most accom-
plished Amazon in the rank and
file to the captaincy.
Every member of the corps was
served both at home and abroad
by five negresses. The corps held
dress parade on the parade grounds
near the Capitol twice every week
and exercised daily with the lance,
the pistol, the musket and the rifle.
The discipline of the corps was un-
exceptionable. The necessity OF
Furnishing a member rarely occurred
oftener than once year. Duels.
however, were frequent among the
Amazons. Before a duel could be
fought the permission to fight ii
had to be obtained from the COM
mander-in-chief. Swords were usu-
ally chosen as the weapons, and the
meeting took place in the presence
of the whole company to which the
challenger belonged. An Amazon
who fell in a duel was buried with
extraordinary pomp, and the priest
in his funeral Grafton usually rec
commended her to a high place in
heaven in consideration Of he.
bravery on the field of honor. The
victorious duelist was congratulated
by her comrades. She was obliged
however, to retire from her com
pany for two months, which she
passed in fasting and praying. Then
she was reinstated with high hon.
ors in the active service.-N. Y. Sun
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23
Sauerkraut q Staple Now.

Vim. Hehrlein tells the Globe
Democrat: Sauerkraut is not laugh
ed at as much as it used to be, and
is eaten more. Its consumption ls
no longer confined to Germans and
it is sold here in large quantities to
almost all restaurants, and eaten by
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-11-23

rx VIM. HYNDMAN.
'HlAry AIrIyyyDMAN & BATTEN,
.+torney s-a IL a w !,
rdaho.-Practice in all the Courts
md Land Offices.
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PROFESSIONAL.
. T. PINKHAM.

nopyEY-AT-LAW, Ketchum, Idaho M
4 PracrI,Ievv crI,oIneveyancing and procuring OF
!!i.aSts !toaytt specially.
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n f, w A L D r y n /,

,,orney at L a w !,
.,.r 1daho.-Will practice in all the
l,ourts of the Territory.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-11-04
The Boy Who Says GIVE"

Don't laugh at the boy who magni-
fies his place. You may see him COM
ing from the post office with a big
bundle of his employers letters, (which
he displays with as much pride as if
they were his own. He feels impor.
tant and looks it. But he is proud
of his place. He is attending to bus
mess. He likes to have the world
know that he is at work for a busy
concern. One of the Lawrences, of
Boston, once said 81 would not give
much for the boy who does not say
we before he has been with us a
fortnight The boy who says ''we"
Identifies himself with the concern.
Its interests are his. He sticks up
for its credit and reputation. He
takes pleasure in his work, and hopes
sometime to say 'swe" in earnest.
The boy will reap what he sows if
he keeps his grit and sticks to his
job. You may take off your hat to
him as one of the future solid men of
the town. Let his employer do the
fair thing by him; check him kindly
if he shows sign of being too big for
his place counsel him as to his hab-
it's and associates, and occasionally
show him pleasant prospect of adj
vancement. A little praise does an
honest boy a heap of good. Good
luck to the boy who says eve
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-11-04

kepG IHe papcT SlHOo9Aoi. HO hise-
chine stops at any length the paper is
cut, the machine being capable of
adjustment to any desired length.
The knife acts and the paper falls, a
sheet, into the hands of girl at the
back of the machine, who catches the
sheet from the machine and keeps it
in perfectly even piles in tray.
Another girl counts the paper into
reams of, say, five hundred sheets
each, when it is tied in packages and
shipped. All paper is not made en-
tirely of rags; in some paper there is
a proportion of wood pulp. The pro-
portion of wood pulp to rags determ-
ines the quality of the paper. Paper
that is to be used for illustrations
must be more highly finished than
payer that is to take impressions of
type only. You have heard Of made
over dresses and trousers and coats,
but [ don't believe many of you have
heard of made-over paper. Every
newspaper, every magazine, every
pamphlet, has, or is expected to have,
SO large an edition; that is, so many
hundred or thousand copies are sub
scribed for or needed. Now, when
the publisher gives his order to the
printer, he orders so many hundred or
thousand copies extra printed, be-
cause he expects to sell so many extra
copies over and above the regular de-
mand. Sometimes he does not sell
this number; and perhaps no stock
in the country, when left over, has
less value than an old newspaper or
magazine. Now what is done with
these apparently useless things? They
are sent to paper-mill, and, after
going through process which, to use
a technical term, is called "loosening
the ink it goes through the same
process as at first, and comes out
ream of pure white paper ready for
the printers. The greatest care is
necessary in the preparation of the
pulp before it becomes paper. The
water that passes into the watts in
which the pulp is cleaned and bleach
ed passes through filter, and, after
that, before it falls in the vat, passes
through the finest of HAIR sleeves. No
doubt you have noticed that some
paper has a cream tinge, some blue,
some a pure white. This coloring
is produced by the introduction of
coloring matter, and the greatest care
must be taken that just the right
quantity is put in the watts to produce
the right shade. On the felt rollers,
during part of the process, a jet of
tiny streams of water plays, to keep
them perfectly clean. Success in the
manufacture of paper depends on the
care and skill with which it is watch
ed. The slightest carelessness would
cost loss of material and labor. or
customer-a loss of trade. Profit
depends on keeping the mill employ
ed to its fullest capacity, and this can
only be done by producing the best
the market at the command of the
mill demands.-Ch Christian Union.