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

Certain western newspapers have
inaugurated system of detective
work in journalism which, to say
the least, is very questionable. In
alluding to this matter it is not
with reference to the class of crime
or misdemeanor, or folly it exposes,
but the direct effect of such expo
sure on the public mind, and the
demoralizing influence on the
minds of men and women who lend
themselves to this detective system.
That, under the social crust, under
the best and noblest endeavors of
men, there runs sewer all the
world knows. That ignorance and
brutality and falsity flow on under
meath is the saddest of all facts.
But sewer-pipes were laid under
ground by natural law. 1t is an
unnatural arrangement which floats
their contents across the surface of
the fair meadows, and chokes the
flowers in the gardens. Sewerage
is to be drained off, out of public
sight, kept underground. There is
more of an argument in fine dress
than the world believes. Cleanli-
ness is next to godliness. Rough
people, as rule, are better behaved
in Sunday clothes. Any human be-
ing fresh from the bath approaches
the Christian. A sunny day in
spring makes better thoughts than
one of rain or sleet and slush. The
presence of a good man is a stronger
moral agent than the example of
bad one Exalted surroundings by
force Of intrinsic beauty and grace
do more to lead humanity than
gli1npses through the wide open
gates of depravity and crime.
Newspapers that make an object
of recording the goodness of men,
their heroism, their wise ambitions
and enterprises, will become moral
agents in society. Those which
hire men and women to lead daily
lives of falsehood and deceit, in
tracking out other peoples false
hoods and deceits, are misled in
their notion of mortality and pub
lie service. The details of criminal
lives and practices is neither news
nor literature. A man or woman
who spends his or her life in trick
ing secrets from other people, is a
poor teacher for humanity. Such
Journalism is shocking.-Ex.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
A New Point in the Bacon-Shakes.
peare Controversy.

"The Bacon-Shakespeare Ques-
ton Answered" is the title of book
by Mrs. C. Slopes, just published in
England, which produces some
wholly new evidence against the as
sumption that Bacon wrote the
Shakespeare plays. This consists
of a comparison of the writings OF
Shakespeare and Bacon in their
treatment of stimulants. The con-
trast between the intellectual atti-
tude of the two authors on this sub
iect is certainly most significant.
"A1rs. Slopes" 1--WE quote from the
review in the New York Tribune
"found that Bacon interested him
self solely in what may be termed
the scientific or manufacturing as
poets of stimulants. He studied
distillation, yiniculture, brewing /;
he was learned about fermentation
and must and all processes of pro-
duction; he inquired curiously into
the secrets of fining and keeping
wine. But he showed himself ab-
solutely indifferent to the human
aspects of stimulants. What the
effect of drinking might be never
troubled him at all. Temperance
and intemperance were alike terms
to him. In all his works there is
no line which indicates the bestowal
of thought upon the relations of
man to the intoxicants. Now this
fact in itself is remarkable, and
strongly characteristic. 1t illus
trates the cold egotism of Francis
Bacon's nature. 1t also illustrates
his craving for knowledge, and in
an especial way the defect of human
sympathy in that craving. Equally
striking and equally characteristic
is the result of the same inquiry in
the works of Shakespeare, for here
it is always the human element that
predominates. 1t is the effect of
upon human health and
character that is studied. Mrs.
Slopes has collected a remarkable
series of extracts from the plays
and poems in illustration OF her
theories, and the contrast between
them and Bacon's frigid, purely IN
tellectual observations is most
marked. The dramatist sweeps the
whole gamut of human experience
with stimulants. Between Casslo'e
passionate denunciation of that
spirit of wine' which, if it has no
name, may well be called devil,
and Falstaff's rapturous 'apostro-
phe to the virtues of sack, every
aspect of the subject is touched
upon. ."-Appleton's Bulletin.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
Mr.. FRED. LAWRENCE, the press

Mr.. FRED. LAWRENCE, the press
agent for Forepaugh's circus, who
bears the distinction of having had
longer experience in this line than
any other man in the world, tells
some interesting stories about the
superstitions of showmen. For ex-
ample, he says all kinds of deformed
persons are regarded as hoodoos.
This superstition is held by every
body, from the proprietor down to
the poorest canvasman. If on 60
ing into a printing house, the show
man should find a deformed man
in there, either connected with or
only doing business with the house,
he would refuse to make a contract
that day for printing. He would
call again, when the cripple was not
there. If a Snowman is going to
do anything and the first man he
sees when he sets out is cripple,
he postpones his purpose. One of
the strangest demonstrations of this
superstition is seen when deform-
ed man happens to be first to enter
a circus tent. This is sure to hoo
doc the entire performance. So
deep-set and SO general is this be-
lief that circus ticket agents never,
if they know it, sell a ticket to
cripple until they are sure other
persons have passed into the tent,
and if cripple presents himself at
the entrance first, the doortender
will use every means in his power
to keep him back until others have
gone in. If by any mistake a Grip
pie happens to go in first, the inge,,
nuity of every person connected
with the show is taxed, if need be,
to coax him outside, give his money
back to him, and make him either
go away or buy another ticket.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
A POPULAR BELIEF.
All Sorts of 0mens Contained in q Com
mon Loaf Of Bread.

Among beliefs current among sail
ors is the notion that it is unlucky
to turn a loaf upside down after
helping ones self from it; the idea
being that for every loaf so turned,
a ship will be wrecked. 1t is also
said that if a loaf parts in the hand
while being cut, it BODIES dissension
in the family-the separation of
husband and wife. Again, it has
been a widespread belief that the
whereabouts of drowned body
may be ascertained by floating a
loaf of bread down stream, when it
will stop over the spot where the
body is.
A curious account of a body thus
recovered near Hull, appeared some
years back in the Gentleman's Mag
azine:
"After diligent search had been
made in the river for the child, to
no purpose, a 2-penny loaf with a
quantity of quicksilver put in it,
was set floating from the place
where the child was supposed to
have fallen in, which steered it's way
down river upward of half mile,
when the body happening to lie on
the contrary side of the river, the
loaf suddenly tackled about and
swan across the river, and gradually
sank near the child, when both the
child and the loaf were brought up
with the grapplers ready for the
purpose"
A correspondent of Notes and
Queries maintains that it is a sci
entific fact that a loaf and quick
silver indicates the position of the
body, as the weighted loaf is carried
by the current just as the body is.
This practice, too, prevails on the
Continent, and in Germany. the
name of the drowned person is in
scribed on the piece of bread,
while in France loaves consecrated
to st. Nicholas, with lighted wax
tapers in them, have generally been
for that purpose.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

APRoPos to the epidemic of elope-
ments started by the Chief Justice 3
daughter, the New York Tribune
suggests this remedy: "Watch care
fully, and when the young man ap-
pears to carry off the maiden
whether it be below her window
with ladder, or, in more prosaic
fashion, jumping from a street car
to meet her in a candy store-let
the young lady's papa appear on
the scene with a minister and H.
cense, and propose that the young
couple be married instanter. This
will break up the elopement, and,
in nine cases out of ten, the mar
riage. 1t knocks all the romance
out of the thing. There is nothing
romantic about standing up in a
candy store and getting married,
while "salesladies" litter and chew
gum, and customers wink at each
other; and without romance what
is the use of an elopement?'-Union
Signal.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
THE ROMANCE OF A MINE.

| J. NJ. Kolbeck, writing from Mex
leo to the Engineering and Mining
journal, says of the Malanoche mine
near Zacatecas:
"a train loaded with ores for
Guanejuato in December, 10 years
ago, started out of Veta Grande at
4 o'clock P. NJ, with the purpose of
reaching this to remain over night.
1t was large train and left in a
cold drizzling rain, which turned
to binding sleet before the train
was two miles this side of Veta
Grande. The leader lost the way,
and instead of the train continuing
directly towards the Zacatecas, it
sheered to the right until, in DIS
may, the commander ordered all
into camp on the great mountain
foothill, since called Malanoche.
Camptres were built and kept in
glow all night, for a storm of snow
and accompanying cold were things
rarely met with by thinly-clothed
Mexicans. When day came with IL
brilliant sun, the freighters, in gath
ering up their fragments of wood
after having made their coffee, ac-
cidently brushed some ashes off
from quartz rock and discovered
silver. The campfres had been
kept on wide vein of silver ore,
which then was claimed, and it was
named the Bad Night mine to COM
memorate the episode. 1t proved
to be a wonderful mine. It's dumps
to-day are among the largest i'll
Mexico. From the time of its dis
covery up to 1910 no ore under
sixty-five ounces was worked. All
under that went to the waste dump.
Later, in the deepest workings of
the Malanoche, break occurred in
the north wall, estimated, as near
as the startled miners could guess,
to be from four to six feet high.
The miners reached the level above
crying the alarm, so that in twenty
minutes, it is said, all had emptied
themselves out of the many shafts
and were safe. The break was 800
feet underground. Inside of twenty
four hours the mine throughout it's
very extensive workings was filled
with water to depth of 500 feet. 1t
is calculated that there are sixteen
miles of shafting, tunneling, drift
ing and stopping in the Malanoche-
1t has not since been worked except
by several shafts on or near the
surface. The dumps have been
sorted over in part, and it is est
mated that the half.dozen immense
dumps comprise 100000 tons of
ore that will average from twenty
i've to thirty ounces to the ton."
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
In a recent temperance addroo,

In q recent temperance address
made in the Chicago Avenue church
by prominent lecturer of Mime
apolis, he said: "The chemists
agree that alcohol is great solvent.
The drink alcohol has this power
also. Welded love will endure pain,
disgrace and disease, but alcohol
has dissolved more marriages than
any other thing. 1t is the great
dissolvent of moral VOWS. Filial
love will endure in spite of many
things, but alcohol will dissolve it,
and make a son trample on the
heart of his mother. It is the great
dissolvent of business integrity.
Alcohol has great antiseptic powers,
but nothing that is living can be
preserved in alcohol, SO in morals
it preserves nothing but vice. What
awful infatuation it is that will
make a man risk wife, children and
home upon this mocking devil of
drink"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
SERVED HIN. BIeH7.
Costly Wind-up Of Prairie Chickens
Spree.

give years ago." said Nick Bund1
to Globe-D Democrat reporter re-
Gently, bought stock ranch in
Nebraska. / lived alone in the dug.
out and had jolly time. l expert.
mented once or twice with prairie
chickens, trying to tame them, but
| never succeeded. One day, when
blizzard kept me in the house, /
got thinking about the birds, and
funny idea occurred. I had been
making whisky toddies, and thought
| would try it on the chickens. I
took a bird, which l had trapped
the day before, and running a reed
down it's gullet, poured in the booze.
The bird became gloriously full,
and its antics made my back ache
with laughter. If civilization had
nothing else that would reach it's
wild nature, sour mash would, and
efectually. l kept the bird on q
spree for week. At the end of that
time it became a confirmed topper.
So eager did it become for whisky
that l had to take the jug outdoors
or put the bird out of doors when /
wanted to take drink, for it would
fly up and fairly stick it's bill into
my quaffing lips in the desire for
drink. 1t would sit for an hour and
try to draw the cork from the jug.
"One day l brought home bot
tie of horse liniment, containing
alcohol and aqua fortis among other
things. | sat it on shelf over the
head of my bed. By accident I had
left the chicken loose in the room.
Along in the morning was sud-
denly awakened by terrible burn
ing in my face. I jumped out of
bed, rushed to the water pail and
bathed my countenance for an hour.
In my left eye the torture was fear
full. Finally jumped on a horse
and rode to town. The doctor
worked on me for few hours, at
the end of which one of my eyes
had been taken out. / had not yet
learned what the matter was, sup
posing that the aqua fortis had
fallen and the bottle broken in my
face.
"But on my return to the dugout.
what was my surprise to see, with
my solitary eye, my pet chicken
lying dead on the bed. From ap-
pearance, l learned that the bird,
in its endeavor to get whisky, had
got the cork out of the medicine
bottle, got its bill wedged in in It's
endeavor to drink, had Topped with |
it into my eye, and drank Of the
fiery stuff until it had died, in
frightful agony. The birds bill |
was still in the bottle. l believe it
was the first prairie chicken ever
and it was the last one /
aver tried To tomeO
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

DR.. NORMAN KERR, an eminent
physician of England, believing the
statement of temperance people to
be extrayagant that 6O,0OO people
died annually from the effects of
strong drink, began as early as 1870
a personal inquiry, in connection
with several medical men and ex-
perts, expecting to quickly disprove
the same. According to their de-
ductions the latest estimates Of
deaths of adults annually caused
through intemperance IS in Great
Britain 10000; in France, 142,-
900; in the United States, $4,000,
or nearly half a million each year
in three countries aggregating
population of 100000.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
A Poser.

Show many children had George
Washington" inquired primary
teacher in the Franklin school the
other morning. None," replied a
bright boy. "And how many did
Mrs. Washington have?' she asked
again. "Two,' was the reply. Then
very dull boy held up his hand.
"Well, what is it," asked the teach
er. "Wh-where did she g-git 'em?"
he stammered out slowly, and the
teachercollapsed- -Washinton Post.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

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 we'll as matters of local
Importance in the growth of Kecchum, 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, 1889-05-04
Billy Birch's Last.

"Touching! Touchingl' was the
exclamation of "Billy" Birch, the
veteran minstrel, when he read the
accounts of his alleged sudden de-
mise, in = New York paper. The
old Joker would have been perfectly
satisfied with the story if it hadn't
located his death at his country
house." whereas he never owned
but small share in the
proceeds OF the "house" before
which he happened to be playing
at the time.-Troy Times.
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will be bigger than ever, and will
embrace 245 people and 252 head
of cattle. The people include the
cowboys, lady riders, shooters, Mex
leans, Indians and attendants the
cattle include horses, oxen, bucking
steers, mules, donkeys and bufa-
Ices. The show will open in Paris
on May 1st, will remain there until
the exhibition closes, and then be
taken to Vienna and Berlin.-Ex.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

A NOVEL industry has sprung up
in Bozrah, Conn. It is the manu-
facture of the oil of wild cherries.
The first consignment was recently
shipped to New York. Although
the product did not take up much
room it was very valuable. The
consignment consisted of five
two-gallon cans, and was worth
$500 a gallon. The oil was manu-
factured from wild cherry trees,
and one ton of twigs makes but
three pounds of oil. The ten gal
Ions Of oil represent fifty-three tons
of twigs.-Lakeport Democrat.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
Buffalo Bill and His Wild West Show.

Colonel Cody, Buffalo Bill" has
made arrangements for the trans
portation Of the "Wild West" to
Paris. He has chartered the Per-
sian Monarch, Of the Monarch line,
to take it as far as Havre. The show
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04
VIII Never Be Returned.

The Buffalo man who has Won a
sweet girl by writing love letters to
her on IS bills has started fashion
that will make courting harder than
ever. Not only will the dear crea-
lures refuse to return sueh lnissives
in case Of quarrel, but they will
insist on bills of a larger deuomis
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

To TREAT an ingrowing nail be-
gin the cure by application to the
tender part of a small quantity of
percharide of iron, which can be
easily procured either in fluid or
powder form at drug store. The
tender flesh is dried and tanned by
this application and ceases to be
painful. When this hardened flesh
has remained on two or three weeks
it can easily be removed by soak
ing in warm water. Loose shoes
and cutting the nails properly will
complete the cure.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

nation being used. The world will
seem a dreary place to a man who
has been using SIS bills as station
cry for his love letters when he gets
a note like this from the adored
object: Another gentleman is writ
ing to me on $40 bills. Unless you
employ $50 bills, all is over be-
tween u.s.
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The Importance Of Fish a. Food.


Gle of food is hardly appreciated.
It is especially beneficial for those
who have great demands for nerv-
GUS energy. AS is we'll known, it
has always been considered supe-
rior brain food, chiefly on account
of it's phosphorus. Contrary to the
popular idea, it has been shown by
analysis and experiment that it
contains no more phosphorus than
meat. The value of fish to the brain
worker is then urged by Sir Henry
Thompson, on the ground that it
contains, in smaller proportion
than meat, those materials which,
taken abundantly, demand much
physical labor for their complete
consumption, and which, without
this, produce an unhealthy condi-
ton of the body, more or less in
compatible with the easy and active
exercise of the functions of the
BRAIN" Thus it is seen that al
though fish is less nutritious than
meat it is much more easily digest
ed. While it is we'll for those who
are accustomed to great physical
exertion and suffer from exposure
to cold to eat heartily of meat, it is
obvious that those of sedentary
habits should partake of that which,
affording sufficient nutriment, calls
for the least expenditure of nervous
force. In this respect fish is an
admirable food, containing more
water and less solid food than meat.
AS you ascend the animal scale nu-
triment increases, oysters contain
ing less than fish, fish less than fowl,
and fowl less than the flesh of quad
rupeds. There is a constantly in
creasing sale Of fish. The oyster
trade is $5,O00,OO0 yearly. There
can be no doubt that it would be
better for the brain and nervous
system if fish oftener replaced meat
as an article of food. Too stimu-
lating and heating diet has been the
cause of several diseases. Fish is one
of the most easily digested of foods.
A medical authority states that
trout is digested in one hour and |
milk not till two hours. The reason
for the ease with which fish is di- |
gested is the small amount of fat !
contained. Cod and light, colored |
fish are more easily assimilated into |
the system than the darker kinds, |
though not as nutritious. Broiled |
fish is most easily digested, and
fried the least. Raw oysters are
readily digested and very nutritious.
Cooking sacrifices their best quail
ity. Clam and oyster water are
now being much used for invalids.
Fish is not only very important
and wholesome food, but it is also
less expensive than meat. The use
Of fish affords one of the easiest and
cheapest ways by which to have
variety. Care should be taken in
fish as in other foods to buy it in
The season. It should always be
served with farinaceous or vegeta-
Die food, as toast, potatoes, rice,
nacaroni and the like. Fish will
reduce the cost of table fare if wise
y used and still satisfy the most
vigorous appetite.
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AERRITORY OF IDAHO.
DEGDNDEEG

AERRIToRY OF IDAHO.
rs County of Alturas.
nsned p l; Lewis, President of the above
above s,os oank do solemnly swear that the
tuoyladaa.ement is true to the best of my
'edge and belief.
Subsc,;h ISAAC I. LEWIS, President.
9th dSerioed and sworn to before me this
D'y OF March, 1889.
Cor,ec, Hso. NJ. Snow, Notary Public.
a. ". CoMsrocK,)
LEO. J. LEWIS,
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AN Irishman was planting shade
trees when passing lady said:
"You are digging out the holes,
are you, Mr.. Haggerty2'
"No, mum. Dim diggin' out tho
dirt an LAWN the holes"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

EDWIN BoorH's physicians say
that the paralysis with. which he
was stricken is due to excessive
smoking.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

PRESIDENT Harrison has rendered
the postoffice at Richmond, Va,
to the widow of the gallant Con-
federate Gen. Stonewali Jackson.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-05-04

There are none that fall so unpit-
led as those that have raised thezn-
selves. upon the spoils Of the public.
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PROFESSIONAL.
r. PINKHAM,

nyry-AT-LAW, Ketchum, Idaho.
,rT0KEI:Iroa in all the Courts of the Ter
4 acSSiOUn,yveyancing and procuring of
l:os!it la.,sgts specially.
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,,rrrS VIM. UYNDMAN.
''''fy 'HfyNDMAN & BATTEN,
,,torney s-a tt a w /,
1daho.-Practice in all the Courts
D p Land Offices.
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D E. W AL D R 0 N,
ttorne L a w !,
49, rdsho.-Will practice in all the
r'r,ts OF the Territory.