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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-11

| invite the especial attention OF all per-
sons in need OF COOKING STOVES to the
following list Of necessary Furniture which
l give with each stove, and which / guaran-
tee 10 be first-class in every respect: wash
LoileI coffee boiler, sauce pan and lid,
] iron tea-kettle, iron pots, pot lids,
Ions gIiddle, skillet, sheet-iron pans, lid
lifteI L poker, stove scraper. joints Of pipe
anu elbow large tin bucket, bread pan,
l cullender, wash basin, pudding pans, 8
patty pans, II pie plates, milk strainer,
milk skinner, plain ladle, pierced ladle,
soup ladle, / iron spoon, j cake turner,
egg whip, pie crimper and trimmer, fancy
teapot, sad-irons, / teapot stand, sad
iron stand, / pepper box, ! nutmeg CRATER
l candle stick, cake mould, 8 tin cups, i Dip
per biscuit cutter, l rolling-pin, / potato
masher, butcher knife, knives and forks
worth SIPS per set, albata tablespoons,
albata teaspoons, i coal-shovel, ! flesh
fork, 3jelly-cake pans, pound of stove pol
ish.
/ sell the celebrated Excelsior Cooking
Stoves at the following prices. will deliver
stoves and furniture free offreight in Bridge
port Nd, at any station on the S. V. r. R.,
also at any station on the b. & o. r. II. as far
west as Cumberland or south to Staunton:
EXCELSIOR.
No. Is, $1,000; No. IL, s22.5O; No. 26, 500. so;
No. q, $500; No. Is, $500; No. 36, $500; No.
81, $500; No. 3S, $500; No. 80, $4,000.
Prices quoted on application and repairs
furnished for all patterns of stoves. Return
ing thanks for the liberal patronage of the
past, hope to merit a continuance.
II. c. MARTEN.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-11
Western Maryland Railroad.

HAP. X. r. at Shippensburg, Shenandoah
Valley and Il. & o. Railroads at Hagerstown
Penna. r. r. at Frederick junction. and +.
W. & b., n. G. and b & p. Railroads at Union
station, Baltimore, Md.
MAIN LINE AND CONNECTIONS.
Schedule taking effect June ID, 1850.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23
EASILY WON.

Nothing is more embarrassing to
its possessor than a reputation
which he has not deserved. A lau-
rel wreath awarded by chance be-
comes absurdly heavy, and the un-
fortunate wearer, though he may
long to toss it into the nearest
thicket, is usually unable to tug it
from his brows. When the late Prof.
Moses Stuart Phelps was student
at New Haven, he one morning took
a walk with Prof. Newton, who lived
in the world OF mathematics. Prof.
Newton, according to his usual
habit, began the discussion of an
abstract problem. AS he went
deeper and deeper, Mr.. Phelps
mind wandered farther and farther
from what was being said. At last
his attention was recalled by his
companions remark, (which, you
see, gives us *" "Does it?' asked
Mr.. Phelps, thinking that, in COM
mon politeness, he ought to say
something. "Why, doesn't tH ex-
citedly exclaimed the Professor,
alarmed at the possibility that a
flaw had been detected in his CAL
culations. Quickly his mind ran
back over his work. There had in
deed been a mistake. "You are
right, Mr.. Phelps; you are right !'
he shouted. ut doesn't give us
x it gives us ~ From that hour
he looked upon Mr.. Phelps as a
mathematical prodigy. He was the
first man who ever caught the Pro-
fessor mapping. "And So" Mr..
Phelps used often to add, in telling
the story, II achieved a reputation
for knowing thing | hate. It's
the way many regulations are made
in this superficial world"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23
The Chief Justice as a Boy.

The Up-River News gives the fol-
lowing "reminiscences of an incident
in an Oldtown, Me-, lyceum, years
ago, to which all the ministers, doc
tors and lawyers of the town be-
longed. One evening capital pun
ishment was the question under
discussion and called out the best
forces on both sides. During the
evening young boy who had been
a constant member, replied to Dea-
con Rigby upon this question. The
deacon was for hanging. The boy
opposed. Said the deacon, quoting
from the Mosaic law, "Who she'd
deth mans blood, by man his blood
shall be she'd" Thinking this to be
a bombshell to his opponents, he
dwelt upon it, until his time had
expired, when the boy sprang to his
feet and said: "Supposing we take
the law which the gentleman has
quoted, and which in a philosophic
sense has been abroga'ed as null
and void since the birth of our
Saviour, and see what the logical
deduction would come to. For ex-
ample, one man kills him, and SO
on until we come to the last man on
earth. Who's going to kill him?
He dare not suicide, for that same
law forbids it. Now, Deacon" SAYS
the boy, "What are you going to do
with that last man?" The boys
logic called out rounds of applause,
and vanquished the deacon. That
boy is now Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the United States,
Melville w. Muller.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23
Not Easily Crushed.

~ have been shipwrecked, been
baked in a railroad accident, and
fred out of a foundry window by a
boiler explosion, l was shot in the
neck at Gettysburg, suffered starva-
ton in Libby Prison, fell overheard
from a transport off Charleston,
and left four of my fingers in the
mouth of a shark. / had my arm
broken in two places in New York
riot, and stood on q barrel with a
halter round my neck in a Southern
town at the outbreak Of the great
rebellion from sunrise tQ,sunset. /
was buried under the: ruins at San
Francisco during an earthquake,
and dug out after fifty hours of inn
prisonment. I have been shot at
three times, twice by lunatics and
once by a highwaymap. I was bur-
led two days by q gas explosion in
a mine, and narrowly escaped lynch
ing last year in Arizona through
mistaken identity. And though !
am over fifty, and nearly lost the
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23
Stomachs Unnecessary.

According to the n. Y Graphic
the latest wonder accomplished by
science is the extirpation of the
alleged cause Of all human ills, viz !:
the stomach, in woman who was
patient in a New York hospital.
The woman's name is Marietta
Holly, and she came there from
Washington, and had been an in
veterate gum-chewer. Her disease
was never diagnosed satisfactorily,
but the first symptom of it was
complete loss of appetite. Her
weight declined to about seventy
pounds, and her mind finally be-
came affected. The seat of the dis
ease was known to be the stomach.
DR.. Jacobus determined to examine
the stomach, and for that purpose
put the patient under chloroform,
and made an incision in the abdo-
men six or eight inches long. The
stomach, when found, was dry, hard
and cancerous. In fact, it was use
less to the woman, and the doctor
cut it out with pair of blunt scis-
sors. The wound was then closed
up, and is now healing nicely. The
patient remained unconscious for
several days, and for two weeks had
to be kept alive by artificial means.
Then she was able to eat food in
the usual way, and got along better
without her stomach than she ever
did with it. In fact, her recovery
seems to demonstrate the fact that
the stomach is not an absolute ne
cessity at oil. Before DR.. Jacobus
performed the operation on the wo-
man he experimental on dog. He
removed the stomach, and the dog
is now running around as lively as
ever. From these experiments it
would seem the stomach is not q
vital organ at ALL. What next will
scientists accomplish?
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pExTERous DANCERS.
Sinuous Siamese Girls Who Pick Up
Straws With Their Eyelid&

Poised on tiptoe, bending their
arms and limbs back as far as they
will reach and picking up bits Of
straw with their eyelids, the dane
ing girls of Bangkok are always ex-
ercising in the Royal Gymnasium.
The new volume in the Ziszag Sc
ries, Journeys in the Antipodes, y
gives very graphic description OF
the wonderful training of these girls,
whose ages vary from five to twenty
years. The curious and subtle feat
of picking up a bit of straw with
the eyelids can be learned only by
the youngest Of them. who are made
to practice it in order to render
them flexible in every part of the
body. There are two long rows of
benches, one little higher than
the other. On the lower is row
of little girls and on the upper bench
are laid fine polished bits of straw.
At the sound of the drum the little
girls all together bend back the
head and neck until they touch the
bits of straw, which, with wonder
full dexterity, they secure between
the corners of the eyelids.
The cup dance is the most grace
ful and poetic of their dances. A
row of young women with tier OF
cups on their heads, take their
places in the center of the gym
nasium. A burst of joyous music
follows. On hearing this they ST.
multaneously, with military precis-
ion, kneel down, fold their hands
and bow their heads until their
foreheads almost touch the marble
floor, keeping the cups steadily on
their heads by some marvellous jerk
of the neck. Then, suddenly spring
ing to their feet they describe a sue
cession of rapid and intricate cir
cles, keeping time to the music with
their arms, head and feet.
Next follows miracle of art such
as may be found only among the
people of the highest physical train.
ing. The music swells into a rap
turous tumult. The dancers raise
their delicate feet, curve their arms
and fingers in seeming impossible
fixtures, sway to and fro like witches
Of willow, agitate all the muscles OF
the body like the futter Of leaves
in soft evening breeze, but still
keep the tier of cups on their heads.
At other times cup full of some
liquid is placed on the floor in the
center of the hall. A girl will spring
to her feet and dance about it in
round, wild eddies, and, suddenly
laying herself down, keeping her
arms folded tightly on her breast,
will take up the cup with her lips
and drain the liquid without spill
ing a drop.-Philadelphia News.
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Washington Post Ind. }, February IL.
The legislator who introduced a
bill in the Pennsylvania legislature
making treating an offense punish
able by fine of not more than ST.
coo proposes a measure that, could
it be enforced, would almost do
away with intemperance-among
those, at least, who are of any great
account to the community or them
selves. The abolishment of the
absurd and destroying American
custom of treating would be the
greatest boon ever granted to a ma
ton. The custom Of treating is
one of the most pernicious and fool
ish that ever cursed society. 1t is
supposed to have originated in the
primitive days of the Nation, when
the settlers had to- resort to the
mutual-help plan, and when the
neighbors gathered for a barn-rais-
ing or log-rolling, the host set 'em
up for the boys. and upon similar
occasions the compliment was re-
turned. Two-thirds of the drinking
done, two-thirds of the money spent
for drink, two-thirds of the result
ing wretchedness, are due to the
treating system. Men take drink
after drink that they do not want,
and spend money to pay for drinks
for other people, oftentimes men
they hardly know or perhaps dis
like. The custom, furthermore,
looked at in the proper way, is de-
grading and unmanly. It assists
in forming bad association, habits
Of loafing around" and precludes
person from his most sacred priv
ilege-that Of choosing his own as
sociates. People who join in the
social drink should be those who
are on the closest and most inti-
mate relations. There is no hospi-
tality or generosity in the American
treating any more than there is in
the giving ofan Indian who takes
his present back. Every man keeps
a mean little tab in his head on his
fellows, and the score is kept even
all around. There is comparatively
little solitary drinking in America.
The number of men who go to
drinking places and buy drink
for themselves alone is compara-
lively few. Abolish treating and
the saloons would soon be few and
far between.
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Society at Jug Ridge.

The Bowersocks entertained very
beautifully at the dance given after
the barn-raising Friday night, and
Jug Ridge society was we'll repre-
sented. 1t is to be regretted, though,
that the Stover's Mill people. when
they are honored and elevated by
an invitation into Jug Ridge socie-
ty, cannot conduct themselves in a
becoming manner. What possible
excuse can there be for two full
grown men like Sandy Grimes and
Walt Brayfoggle carrying polecat
secreted in rubber sack and let
ting the animal out just as refresh
ments were being served? 1t does
seem to US that discourtesy to a
host and hostess could go but little
beyond this, and we are asked to
denounce the act in our most Wig
orous style. This we do here and
now, and impale the perpetrators
upon the sharp lance Of public
opinion.
Nothing had occurred up to this
time to mar the pleasures Of the oc-
casion, unless it was the regrettable
dispute that occurred between Sam
Mckee and Israel Langfelt regard
ing their right to dance with Sarah
Billingsley. This dispute ended in
knockdown, but we must give the
young men credit for repairing to
the orchard to enjoy their brutal
tisticuffs instead of having it out in
the parlor, as Bob Johnson and
Van Miller did. It was bad enough
for twenty Or thirty young men to
go to the orchard to see the fight,
thus breaking up the dance for a
time, but that certainly is no reason
why some of the young ladies should
go too. We do not believe in sc
much pugilism at our little social
affairs, and hereafter the power of
the press will be brought to bear to
break it up. If any of these Kill
rains and Sullivans don't like this
they know who the Jug Ridge So
ciety reporter is, and they can be
accommodated with a little bear
dance on very short notice. We
trust we are understood. We know
our gait, and think we are able to
maintain it.-Oil City Derrick.
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Williams Guess.

"Now, children" said the teacher,
~ will ask you few questions in
the lesson we have just been over.
Can you tell me William" address.
ing the representative bad boy oi
the class) "why the bad boy stood
on the burning deck? ~
81 don't know ma am" said vii.
liam. besitating, unless"
"Unless what?"
"Unless he had pat hand, and
didn't want to let it go. ."-Merch.
ant Traveller.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23

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 III 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, 1889-03-23
Definition Of Certain Church Titles.

An Archbishop is a high Bishop,
and is the chief of the clergy of q
Province. A Vicar General is an
assistant to an Archbishop or Bish-
op. A "Vicar" is one who supplies
the place of another; so the Vicar
General takes the Bishops place
on occasions when the latter does
not need to exercise episcopal au-
thority. He is Chancellor of the
diocese generally; to use military
term, he is the Bishops Adjutant.
A domestic chaplain Of the Pope is
called Monsignor; this is q sort Of
brevet title. It means literally,
/" My Lord" Just as a sovereign's
attendants are Lords and Ladiel,
so the Pope's are made Lords BY
receiving the title of "Monsignor."
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23

use of my right leg, have just had,
as understand, all my property.
on which there was no insurance,
DESTROYED by fire in a western town
and the doctor in New York to
whom / went last week for exam
ination assures me that I will soon
be bedridden from rheumatism,
nevertheless" he added, cheerfully,
/" while l undoubtedly have met
some obstacles in the past, I still
refuse to believe that luck is against
me. ."-Daylie ht Land.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23
THE GOSPEL Meeting of the "

The Gospel Meeting of the ".
c. T. u, which was held Sunday
evening, was largely attended. The
interest in these regular monthly
meetings is growing, as evidently
demonstrated by the. increased at
tendance. The programme for the
evening was varied and entertain.
ing. The choir-Mrs. A. J. Pink
ham, Miss Van Wormer, who pre-
sided at the organ, Messrs. Geo. J.
Lewis and Robert Warren, rendered
fine music.
After the usual preliminary ex-
ercises, Mrs. l. l. Lewis, Superin-
tendent of Evangelistic work, de-
livered an enthusiastic and lengthy
address. Then followed an anthem
by the choir, and sung with fine
effect.
Mrs Louise Brodhead favored
the audience with select reading
I" Pearls of Faith which was list
ened to with interest. Mrs. Mary
Richie read an essay" Duty OF
Happiness lin a charming and
graceful style.
The President, Mrs. w. H. Brod-
head, closed with an eloquent and
stirring temperance address, which
was received with applause in the
hearts of the audience.
After liberal collection was
taken up for the Union, the meet
ing was adjourned by singing the
Temperance Doxology.
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shot to satisfy the whim of some

4
incompetent officer. | know men
in command who, being frightened
nearly out of their wits in their first
battle, never trusted themselves to
60 into another while in service
until they were drunk from head to
foot. Before We went across the
Potomac we were
ENcAMPED AT MERIDIAN HILL.
A short distance from our camp
there was stream of water where
we used to go to wash our clothes
and to have swim. In getting to
this spot we had to pass through
the grounds of New York regi-
ment. One morning about s or 8
O'Clock | had occasion to go to the
brook for some purpose. When pas
sing through the camp of the regi-
ment, near the guard-house, my at
tention was called to sight shall
never forget, not so much from what
l at the time saw, but from the re-
suit thereof. Bound to the "horse"
was man of medium size and to a
stranger of good appearance. He
was dressed in the heavy clothes
which New York at that time fur
nished it's soldiers, heavy jacket.
stand-up collar, double breasted
and buttoned to the chin. His hands
were tied behind him, and his legs
were bound together at the knee,
making it impossible for him to
shift his position in any way to pre-
vent the torture. The ''horse" was
a plank, one and one-half inch in
thickness, and about ten inches
wide. Attached to it were legs
about six or seven feet long, hold
ing the plank up edgewise.
1t was the first of July, and it was
breathless hot day. While look
ing at this man-''this human be-
ing" supposed to be in the image of
God, l saw the tears trickling down
his cheeks, saw his lips pressed to-
gether trying to suppress the agony
endured. | felt such a desire to
help him, to wipe away the tears he
could not reach with his bound
hands. Oh, such shame felt that
one man should do this to his fell
low man.
l asked and was told that the
man had been put in the guard
house for some breach of discipline.
In the morning he was given per-
mission to go to the brook and
bathe. Staying over his time, he
was brought back to camp and put
on the horse for punishment. All
that long, hot day he was there, no
one to cry, "hold, enough" and at
night when his term of punishment
was finished he was taken from the
horse dead.
This company marched past our
regiment when they buried him,
and it was said, with how much
truth I know not, the captain COM
PEELED the dead mans brother to
drum in the march to the grave.
1t was while this New York regi-
ment had command of Fort Els
worth, in Virginia, that a Union
soldier was hanged at this fort for
shooting a woman il Alexandria,
when nearly every man who wit
messed the execution believed him
innocent of intention to kill her.
Many sad things occurred in the
war on both sides which will never
be told. Politics ruled the army,
and ruled it almost to its ruin. In
after times it was different. The Sc
we're fighting, the sitting out of bad
officers and a knowledge of the inn
portance of, discipline toned down
the raw material and the result was
the saving Of the Union.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23
Eggnoggstic.

s'Say, Padhrick," whispered ia
cobson to his Hibernian friend, II
vondher vot sort Of man dot IS at
de oddef end Of de loonch counter?'
"Begob," returned Pat, cycling
the stranger, she muat be wan av
them new-fangled ducks called Egg
.noggstics. A man that will ate
BACON on a Froiday 10 nayther Jew
nor Christianly- -Rtck. !,
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SENATOR STANFORD, of California,
was called upon once to aid In
building Y. M. c.. A. hall in San
Francisco. His reply was that he
did not care anything for the young
men. Not long afterwards his only
son was stricken down by death.
Mr.. Stanford learned a lesson. He
cares now for the young men, and
the Leland Stanford Jr. Univer-
sity" will be perpetual evidence OF
that care. All the people of this
nation must care for the young
men. Upon the young men de-
pends the destiny of the republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23

OyR strength, temper, intelligence
and sensibility depend greatly upon
the quantity and quality Of our food.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23

u,rrFN VIM, HYNpMAN.
HyNDMAN & BATTEN,
sttorn e y So tt a w ,
...cbrm. Idaho. Practice in ali the Courts
and Land Offices.
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PROFESSIONAL.


,q1oRNEY-AT-LAW, Ketchum. Idaho.
A PRACTICES in all the Courts of the Ter
.rory ! Conveyancing and procuring OF
Patents a speciality.
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THE Record gives this take off,
which is the best we have seen:
Miss Kate Field-I have called
to see the religious editor. AS the
great American champion Of Cali
fornia wines as solution of the
temperance problem l sent him a
case of wines, with a request for q
strong article on the subject in the
religious department., but the artl-
Gle has not appeared.
Office Boy No, mum. hes
drunk. yet.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1889-03-23

IT is easy to be noble among the
noble. The difficult thing is to keep
the nobility of ones nature unper-
verted among the petty and ignoble.