The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

enact suitable legislation to enforce tn
provisions of this article"
! Pennsylvania will hold an cleo.
ton to vote on a similar amend
ment to the constitution Of that
State, on the 18th of June.
| A REMINIsCENCE OF WAR TIMES.
Capt. Armes is undergoing court
martial at Washington for an insult
offered to Gov. Beaver, of Pennsyl.
vania, the trouble growing out Of
an alleged slight put upon Capt
Armes on Inauguration day. Dur
ing the testimony of one witness, az
to the good character and patriot
ism of Capt. Armes, bit of unpub-
lished history was revealed. The
witness in question was General
Ward II. Lamon, who was called
to read from his unpublished mem
oirs about young Armes at the out
break of the war. He understood
from conversations overheard at
the White House, in war times, that
Armes was sort of leader among
the young Virginians, but was de-
nounced by his comrades for com
ing over to the Union side. Even
his brother denounced him, and
his mother tried to alter his deter
mination, but his father, who was
in New York at the time, was a
Union man. Young Armes informed
Mr.. Seward of a plot of the Virginia
troops to seize the treasury and
the arsenal. Mr.. Seward ordered
witness, who was then marshal Of
the district, to arm every able-bod-
led man in the city and guard the
river front. Soldiers also guarded
the Long Bridge. The attempt to
to seize the treasury and arsenal
was not made. Armes by his
timely information may or may
not have saved Washington from
falling into the hands of the enemy,
but Mr.. Lincoln and Mr.. Seward
evidently believed that he had and
that was the reason for the kind
interest they both evinced in him
subsequently.
A DIFFERENCE.
The Washington Post says that
one of the most notable points of
difference between George Washing
ton and several thousand persons
who now claim to be his relations
is that George couldn't tell lie.
George had a good many such short
comings, but if persistent effort and
daily practice will eradicate them
from the blood We may have hope
for some of the coming generations.
UNPLEASANT pRED1cAMENT.
A prominent citizen of St. Louis
went to bed the other night the pos
SCISSOR Of a fine suit of clothes and
other odds and ends of dainty ac-
cessories to gentleman's wardrobe.
He wakened in the morning to find
the possessor Of a stovepipe
hat and pair of slippers. There
being no other gentleman in the
house he had to negotiate with his
[andlady through the keyhole, there
BY collecting in the neighborhood
enough assorted garments to enable
aim to get to the police station and
ell them how his room had been
MIR. WANAMAKER's EASTER.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
vent over to Philadelphia, in ac-
;ordance to what has become his
weekly custom, on Saturday before
Caster to preside over what was
probably the largest Sunday School
n America. There were present
twenty-five hundred scholars and
several hundred visitors. The su-
,erintendent's desk was adorned
With flowers, but otherwise there
vas no display. Mr.. Wanamaker
S superintendent of this Sunday
school, and besides teaches a Bible
lass numbering four hundred. On
Caster Sunday there were four hum
lred additional pupils in the class.
The subject of the lesson for the
lay was, "The two great command
nents. Mr.. Wanamaker said in
dosing: "The two great command
nents, which are to love God with
III thy heart and love thy neighbor
10 thyself, are the bells complete
hat ring the sweetest chime of
Christian life. They make up the
Whole multiplication table,"
MISS CLEvELAND's NEW NOVEL. !
Word comes from amid the orange
blossoms of Florida that Miss Rose
elizabeth Cleveland's second novel
$ almost ready for publication.
contrary to rumor, it will not deal
Wholly with Washington life, but
report be true it will be another
ale of two cities-Washington and
tew York. There are hints that
he author may satirize one or two
prominent characters who have
zen unusually severe on Mr.. Cleve-
and. Well, that will be interesting,
nd particularly SO if the lady
hould happen to stir up a hornets {