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Forests Prevent Floods.

A mountain forest has more func-
tions than most people have con-
sidered. It covers the hills with a
vast mat of network of living root
fibers and holds in place the ever
accumulating mass of mold and de-
composing vegetable matter, which
absorbs and retains the water of the
rainfall and the melting SHOWS.
Such a forest is a great sponge,
which receives all the water that
falls on the mountains and allows
it to escape gradually, SO as to
maintain the steady flow of the
rivers which it feeds. A forest is
thus a natural reservoir for the
storage and distribution of the water
which falls upon it; and it is far
more efficient, as we'll as far more
economical, than any system of art
ifcial storage reservoirs that can
be substituted for it. If the forest
is removed, this mighty sponge is
destroyed, and there is then moth
ing to perform it's functions of hold
ing back the water, which will rush
down in overwhelming floods and
torrents. The first thing to be noted
is that the water will thus all run
away at once, at time when but
little of it is wanted, and there will
be little Or none of it left for the
season when it is most needed. The
rivers which have been fed by the
mountain springs will soon be dry
a great part of the year.-Century.
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The True Elixer Found.

Whatever DR.. Brown-Sequard may
have accomplished with his receLt
discovery that has put his name in
everybody's mouth, his achieve.
ments are as nothing compar. d
with the rejuvenating elixer that a
Frankfort poultry-fancier claims to
have discovered. This ingenius hem
raiser conceived the idea of taking
from freshly-laid hens egg the
vital essence contained therein and
injecting it into the system of pa
tient in a manner similar to that
pursued by DR.. Brown-Sequard.
The patent upon whom this
breeder of bantams and shanghais
tried his first experiment was an
aged and decrepit man of a mild
and inofensive disposition. The
fluid that was injected into his arm
came from an egg freshly laid by
game hen of breed noted for it's
pugnacious characteristics. In q
few hours the old mans whole na-
ture underwent a change, and from
his former gentle nature sprang a
remarkable activity, to which was
soon added a degree of combative-
ness quite similar to that manifested
by the lord of that roost whence
came the egg that was used. Now
the old man is as spry and clipper
as he was forty years ago, while his
pugnacious disposition would do
credit to a professional pugilist.
In discussing his discovery, the
hen man said yesterday: II believe
that the day is not far distant when
our markets will TEEN with eggs la
beled with copyrighted trademarks,
so that patients may know the
strength, pedigree and character of
the eggs they use. Thus they may
have infused into their systems at
will the elements of the legharn's
rowing nature, the fighting instincts
Of the game-cock, or the domestic
and quiet tastes of the brahma."
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Drunkenness q Crime.

The principle of the new law MAX
ing drunkenness a crime, which is
now operating in Minnesota, is new
in America, but is quite commonly
accepted in Europe. In Austria,
for example, whosoever is punished
three times during year for drum
kenness can be prohibited for a
year from entering places where
liquor is sold in the place of his
residence and in the towns imme-
diately surrounding it. Any in
frineement of this law is liable to a
penalty of one months imprison-
ment or $40 fine, and the same
penalties are imposed upon the
dealer who sells the liquor.
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gone within one. What the ingre-
dients of his nostrum was is not
now known; but they were power
full tonics which produced for a
while a feeling Of exhiliration,
which, however, in g few weeks died
away.
Cagliostro was short, dark ugly
man, with an attractive manner and
a plausible tongue. His wife, who
assisted him, was an Italian woman,
Lorenzo Feliciana, remarkable for
her beauty. A Russian physician
who examined the Elixir of Immor-
tai Youth pronounced it "unft for
a dog."-Baltimore News.
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and no sound was heard save q
slight tapping. An unseen foe pro-
vided with this powder might keep
up slaughter for some time be-
fore even its whereabout were as
certained. A battle with this powder
used by both sides would be a silent
butchery, with each side unshielded
by kindly curtain of smoke and
with no deep roar Of cannon and
shrill report Of rifles to distract the
of the soldiers from the
deadly hail of lead and iron.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-09-14

THE beauty and grandeur of Eng
lands method of criminal proce-
dure is lucidly pictured forth in the
eloquent fact that Mrs. Maybrick is
sentenced to imprisonment for life
because it has not been proved that
she poisoned her husband. This
reminds US of the method of crimi-
nal practice that obtained in Mr..
Won Hoddelssohn's household. He
thrashed his boy, it will be remem-
bered, for saying "damn."
II didn't say 'tam,'" cried the
boy.
"Vell, den, you thought 'tam,'
and l will lick you for that"
"No, fader, I didn't t'ink TAM"
"Vell, den, you are thinking tam
now because lick you, SO / will
lick you for that"
"No, fader, I am not Thinking
tam now"
"Vell, you had brovocation enough
to t'ink 'tam.'"
"But I didn't t'ink 'tam."
'Nell, den," said the father, "you
made me t'ink you vas thinking
TAM 80, by tam, l will lick you for
that. ."-Washington Post.
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the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region.
IDAHO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IA, 1889.

defeated. Such losses thow into
the shade the losses of our own war.
At Gettysburg $1,000 were killed
and wounded; at Chicamauga, 49,
600. In the battles of the Wilder
ness 6,788 men were killed, and at
Spottsylvania 6,296. In the final
attack on Kars, during the Russo
Turkish war of 1877-78, 5000 men
fell. The losses in the attacks on
the Shipka Pass amounted to about
O,OOO men, and before Plevna some
10000 men perished. Marius' VIC
tory over the Cimbri and Teutones
at Vercelle in B. C. 1O1 is said to
have cost the lives of 100000 per-
Y. Sun.
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How q Drummer Got Caught Up and
Learned q Lesson.

mo more flirting for me, boys
remarked a drummer to some of his
acquaintances as they sat smoking
and chatting at the Morton Sunday
night. II used to go without smok-
ing when I was dying for cigar,
just so I could go into the ladies'
car. But I am cured. On my last
run into Lincoln | met a nice young
lady. She was agreeable, and of
course l made myself as nearly so
as possible. Had a pleasant half
hour with her before we reached
the station, and of course when we
got off there l asked her if there
were any parcels that could carry
for her. She smiled bewitchingly
and said l might help her if would
be so kind. Then she pointed to
the seat right behind where we were
sitting, and there were three babies,
assorted sizes, asleep. She said
they were hers. Well, I was in for
it, so l picked up the biggest ones,
one on either arm, while she took
the kid. We marched out and
found a carriage, and put her in
and was about to say good-day,
when she smiled again so bewitch-
ingly and asked me to get in. /
couldn't refuse, you know, so l went
along. We drove out to somewhere
near the capital and stopped before
a nice house. A man came running
out, lifted out the babies, kissed
them, lifted out the young woman,
kissed her two or three times and
told the driver he could go. Would
you believe it, she was so spoony
on that husband of hers she never
said good-by to me nor looked in
my direction at all and that amt
the worst of it, / had to pay the
carriage hire myself and lost half a
days time in the bargain. That
woman cured me of flirting so long
as I live. "-Nebraska City Press.
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The KEYSTONE has long been acknowf-
edged to be the sole representative OF the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located as it is III the
very heart of the most promising minln
country on the face of the earth, and lea
ing nothing undone to present its readers
DEVELOPMENTS, as well as matters of loca
importance in the growth of Ketchum,, the
future metropolis Of Idaho, it is an ninvalua-
BILE guide for capital and informant to the
settler of every craft and position. SUB
scribe for it, read it, and let your trlends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-09-14

PROF. FREsEN1Us of Weisbaden,
after a long series of chemical an
alyses, declares that an egg con-
tains as much nourishment as q
pound and an ounce of cherries, q
pound and q quarter of grapes, q
pound and a half Of russet apples,
two pounds of gooseberries and four
pounds of pears, and that ia
pounds of grapes, lit pounds Of
russell apples, 1872 pounds Of pears
and 327 pounds.ot plume are equal
in nourishment to 100 pounds of
potatoes. 10
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The Most Destructive Battles.

The battle of Leipsic was the
bloodiest ever fought. It took place
October 10th, 18th, 10th, 1913, be-
tween the French and the Austri-
ans, Prnssians and Russians. The
French were 100000 strong, the
Allies 100000. More than $4,000
men perished and the French were
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-09-14
Value of Watered Stock.

A water stock without any water
in it is that of the New River Conn
pany, London, established in 1872
to supply Clerkenwen with water,
A share, par value $500, was re-.
sold for $614,oOO by auction
to an insurance company as per-
manent investment. The last, an
nual dividend was $4,000.
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eooD ADVICE TO GIRLS.
From a Lady Who Has Been There
Herself Many a Time and Oft

you-that is the girls-to be very
careful about your conduct towarc
the young men you meet. Twill take
it for granted that you are pretty
and perhaps a little gay and thought
less as we'll. If / have pictured you
correctly, remember to be thought
less counteracts being pretty. You
know the proverb-"As a jewel OF
gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair
woman without discretion" And
no modern proverb vendor or men
der said a truer thing. Do be dis
Greet; do not think that young men
are the only delightful people in the
world, or act as if you thought so.
Keep them at proper distance ;
no man likes or respects a girl who
runs after him, defers to his opin-
ion, lets him say rude things to her
and take little liberties of speech or
action. Again, don't go out driv-
ing, or walking or sailing alone with
any young man. Perhaps you will
tell me that girls all do it. Not
well-bred girls, my dear; if you
have no real chaperon, take another
girl with you. Half the scandals
and tragedies of women begin in
their carelessness about this very
thing. And above all, do be most
particular about the young men
with whom you associate. Avoid
fast" men as you would lepers.
Men who are dissipated are inher-
emily low; no matter how rich, how
handsome, how highly placed in
what is called society, such men
are no associates for a pure young
girl You do not know anything
about their real lives and charac-
ters, and they know you do not ;
they take advantage of your natural
and lovely innocense, and admire
it; though they know themselves
they are not fit to touch the hem
of your dress even. l must say
something about your clothes.
Don't be too fine; simplicity and
exquisite fresh neatness are more
attractive in girls costume than
any extravaganza of fashion or cost
illness of material; but even the
plainest dress may be made faunt-
ing by immodest style. Again, be
just as careful with what young
women you are friendly with, as l
would have you to be about young
men. A girl is always judged by
her friends; keep civilly aloof from
the "fast," the slangy, the giggling
girls you will too surely meet.
Choose your company more care
fully than your dress, for your
friends are the true index of your
moral and mental status. Nothing
can ever retrieve the mistakes you
make now in these respects; you
are now making history"-the his
tory of your life. God never made
among all the exquisite things of
creation a more lovely, enchanting,
exquisite, admirable creature than
a fresh, pure, charming young girl,
full of unselfish thought for others,
gentle, gracious and sDotless. Not
the milk-white and stately June
lilies are so radient in their stain
less candor as such a girl; no tropic
blossom vies with her health colored
face beaming with the light of the
sweet soul within her; che is the
flower and crown of humanity.
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Battles to Be Silent Dutehsrisa

It is not easy for the Imagination
to conceive Of q real battle without
either noise or smoke, yet the in
vention of the new powder used in
the recent sham fight at Spandau,
in Germany, promises to bring just
such revolution. The reports OF
the battle say that no smoke was
visible at q distance of 800 yards
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Notice for Publication.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,

Land Office at Haley, Idaho,
June 20, 1889.
name5 uet9e Is hereby given that the following
ton titu tu settler has filed notice of her inten-
clsiro" !" make final proof in support of her
fore H. ana that said proof will be made be-
Idahtnn htne Register and Receiver at HALEY,
RitrbGi,o RiG, on July 81. 1889, Wig: Mary A.
bloct' g for the lot 5, block 40. and lot
torv o. town of Ketchum, Idaho Terri
n,one one names the following witnesses to
fnl,; rnHie her continuous residence upon, and
Emil 'dp,lon of, said aand, viz Geo. J. Lewis,
Lewis rasmussen, a Ishn L. Holman, l. /.
is' all OF Ketchum, Idaho.
Il. 0. BILLINGS, Register.
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THE KISSING HABIT.

itself a sufficient reason for it's aban-
donment. Many instances have
been cited to demonstrate it's dan
gerous character in this regard, and
medical men have repeatedly sound
ed the warning against its continu-
ance. A little though will empha-
size the point in the readers mind.
The woman who goes about kissing
all her woman friends and acquaint-
ances and their children, old or
young, sick or we'll, regardless of
the condition of their blood or
lungs, and oblivious of the posi-
bility that they have recently been
kissed by a dozen other persons, re-
specting whose hygienic conditions
she has no knowledge, can hardly
plead that the practice is innocent
of danger.
Fatal diseases may be, and some
times are, communicated by the
impact of the lips and the ming
ling of their moisture and of the
breath, and disorders that are less
immediate or direful in their effects,
but no less certainly to be dreaded,
are more easily and often propa-
gated by the kissing habit. The
person whom you kiss may be en-
tirely free from any disease or un-
healthful condition, yet their lips
may carry poison recently taken
from those of another person. You
may be yourself the innocent means
of transmitting the disease germ
from one to another. Poisonous
cosmetics and face powders multi
ply and complicate the malignant
consequences of what is held to be
an innocent expression of affection
ate regard, though it must be ad-
mitted that, as usually practiced,
the social kiss is oftener the cloak
of hypocrisy. There have not been
wanting persons claiming to speak
with authority or knowledge who
have controverted these arguments
and endeavored to discredit the
facts upon (which they are based.
But the unchallenged admission
that some danger does exist has
been sufficient to practically sub
stantiate the case against the kiss
ing habit, and the warrant for it's
Punishment is being signed and ex-
ecuted by an enlightened woman
hood.
The kissing habit has been car
ried to its greatest extreme among
English speaking people, and peo-
pie of other blood are often amazed
and amused by the universally and
cheapness of the kiss among the
English nations. 1t is not neces-.
sarily an argument in its favor,
however, that it is thus found to be
an accompaniment of the highest
civilization, for it may be promptly
retorted that vice and crime also
increase with civilization, and that
even civilized and refined peoples
often keep alive barbarous practices
inherited from savage ancestry.
The kiss, in it's proper function,
has a fine significance, and may be
made the vehicle of the purest emo
tions, the honest expression of le-
gitimate feeling, greeting full of
genuine, voluntary sympathy and
love. The kissing habit is an abuse
and misuse. It has brought the
kiss into disgrace and made it vul-
gar, cheap and hypocritical. Be it
the province of this generation of
refinement and education to rescue
it from its degraded estate and re-
store it to its natural elevated and
place and use in the social
economy.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-09-14

IT will require 10000 census
takers to gather the statistics for
the United States census in 1890.
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,rrrN WIN. HYNDMAN.
0RIAr AIrIyNDMAN & BATTEN,
ttorney s-a tt a w
a. ;. .'..sOm, 1daho.-Practice in all the Courts
md Land Offices.
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PROFESSIONAL.
r. PINKHAM.

onvry-AT-LAW, Ketchum, Idaho.
ITTOkN,:nnas in all the Courts of the Ter
A PracCS,reyv cCS,onyeyancing and procuring of
rItQpSt 4 speciality
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-11-15

Less than three years ago Russian
spy got very drunk ut q students
kneipe in jena and confessed his BUSH
ness. He was thrown out of the room
by the students ana two days later was
driven out OF the town. Generally,
however, the spies do their work
quietly and unsupported, and Russian
student Of liberal political tendencies
must keep his mouth pretty tight shut
ifhe wishes to escape winter or two
in Siberia upon hi, return to Russia.
---Leipsio Cor. N. Y. Sun.
, 1889-09-19
Tanner's Reclamation.

WASHINGTON d. c., Sept. 12.-Com-
missioner Tanners letter of resignation
has been made public. He says: "The
differences which exist between the sec.
retary Of the interior and myself, regard.
Ing the policy TO be pursued in the ad.
mintstrntion of the pension bureau, has
reached stage which threatens to en-
barrass you TO the extent of which act.
l should not call upon you to suffer. and
as an investigation into the affairs of the
bureau has been completed and am as
surcd both by yourself and by the sec.
retary Of the interior the report contains
no reflection on my Integrity as an in.
dividual, or as nm officer herewith
place my resignation In your hands to
you may be relieved OF any further EN-.
barrassment in the matter
President Harrison, in reply, accepted
the resignation, to take effect when his
successor qualified, and adds: III do not
think II necessary in this correspond
encc to discuss the causes which led to
the present attitude of affairs in the PEN
fully advised Of my views upon most of
these matters. IL gives me pleasure 10
state, and so far as l am advised, your
honesty has not at any time been called
In question, and | renew expression of
my personal good WILL"
lOu reporter lunncr SAID to-day: THE
president did not ask for my resignation,
nor did he advise that I resign. He
assured me that the investigation into
the affairs of the pension office had de-
yelopcd nothing that reflected upon my
honesty and good intentions, and said II
l remained in the Office Secretary Noble
would resign" Secretary Noble said TO
reporter that there was nothing per-
sonal in the causes which led to the sew
GRANGE Of official relations between him
self and Tanner; il was entirely due to
difference of opinion in regard to matters
Of official administration. Secretary
Noble added that tho story oftl wranglc
between himself and Secretary Tracy
was not true, neither in word nor
thought. Private Secretary Halford said
no issue was ever made by Secretary
Noble to the president as to
whether he or MIR. Tanner should
go. There was never any formal cabinet
consultation about tile matter and no
disagreement whatever among the
members. Mr.. Halford added that the
question was not at all in the president 5
mind whether one of the two persons
should go. IL was stated this evening
by gentleman In Il position to speak
with some authority that there Will bo
no haste about filling tho position.
What Tanner will do is matter OF con-
lecture.
, 1889-09-19
Neef Cattle statistIcs.

WAsUISGToY, Sept. l2.-Thc annual
report of he bureau of animal industry
for lss5 and 1883 will soon be issued.
With rcga ri to the beef supply the re-
port says: During the past ycGr, in rc-
spouse to Il Widespread demand on the
part of those interested, the bureau
made II special effort to obtain reliable
data as to the number of cat
tie in the country. Trustworthy
agents, familiar with the range cattle
industry. were sent into the various
territories to gather tho most accurate
figures obtainable. In addition to the
figures so collected, II close comparison
Of mean prices of steers in Chicago Der
100 pounds, with the exports of cattle
and beef products carried through a
series of years, clearly indicates that the
prices arc affected by other conditions
than those of supply--that il, the num-
ber in proportion to population and of
exports.
The estimates of the statistical diyis.
ion as tO the number of cattle in the
states have been carefully gone over and
revised in accordance with tho latest in-
formation obtainable. A comparison
of the figures so compiled with
population since 1850 shows
an increase of population from
%, 19l, ,s78 in 1850 to 63,364 sol in 1888.
while the number of cattle has increased
in the same period from l7,77S,907 to
4S, 925, $50 There was steady increase
in the number of milch cows and a
steady decline in the number per thou
sand of population from 215 In 1850 to
236 in 1882, since when the proportion
has hardly varied.
, 1889-09-19
THE UNION PACIFIC.
Preparations for u Concentration OF
Its Efforts In washington.

Dispatches from Omaha state that
General Manager Kimble of the Union
Pacific was asked ii there was any truth
in the report that his road proposed
building from San Francisco to U tah to
a junction with the Southern Pacific at
Mojayo. I'VE are thinking very strong
ly of extending our Utah Central line
further south in order to tap the Pesche
mining district" suid he, "but we will
probably go south of the direct line from
Frisco to NJ MOjavc and the extension will
bc gradual | don't know exactly how
soon work will commence. President
Adams, who has been making q detailed
inspection of the road, will be back in
about ten days. We will then form
definite plans. Our chief energies, how.
ever, will he concentrated in Oregon and
Washington territory, and we will build
great many miles of new road there in
the next few years.
General Passenger Agent I.omax was
also seen. He stated that the policy of
the road was to extend its lines into
Oregon and Washington. THAT is a
grand country" said he, "and besides,
there is no money for us in trying to op.
pose the Southern Pacific company in
California