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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-01-16
OF1ICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY
War on the Bennett School Law

The war against the Bennett
school law, enacted at the last SEES
sion of the Legislature, has become
quite spirited in some portions of the
state. The enemies of the law have
announced their purpose of taking
the controversy into politics at the
next general election: the people
may therefore expect to be worried
with statements of the alleged injus-
tice of the Bennett law during a pc
Rod of nearly ten months before the
issue will be met. The friends of the
law can do no less than defend
it against misrepresentation
and not allow the public mind to be
miSled. The interest involved is of
too much Importance to allow its
proper vindication to be neglected.
For forty years the free schools have
Justly been the pride of the state; the
benefits they have conferred cannot
we'll be over estimated. Thousands
Of the poorer classes have by these
helps been enabled to obtain a res
pectable education, who but for these
educational advantages, would have
grown up to manhood and woman
hood in illiteracy. Names might be
given of those in this vicinity whose
parents were poor, but who secured
a good education in our free schools
and who in after years filled positions
Of trust and responsibility
All the States of the Union recog-
nize the English as the only legal
language in which all laws, records,
court proceedings and contracts are
required to be printed or written
The common sense view, therefore,
is, that inaSmuCh as the government
provides the expense OF the eduCa-
ton of the children and youth in no
other language but the English, why
should other nationalities expect
their children to be taught at public
cost in foreign tongue? To au-
thorize the public school to teach
any other language would be per-
version of the funds set apart for the
maintenance of the school. 1t has
appeared that in some Of the schools
in the northern portion of the state
instruction in English has been al
most entirely neglected. If any one
foreign language claims the right to
be taught in a public school, then on
the same principle every foreign lam
guage spoken 10 Europe may claim
the same right. It is stated that in
Germany the language of that coun-
try is required to be taught in schools
supported by the government, and
the school funds are not allowed to
be diverted in giving instructions in
alien languages. Compulsory educa-
ton is enforced in Germany.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
Health Commandments.

1. Thou shalt have no other
food than at meal-time.
2. Thou shalt not make unto
thee any pies or pat into pastry the
likeness of anything that is in the
heavens above or in the waters un-
der the earth. Thou shalt not fall
to eating it or trying to digest it:
For the dyspepsia will be visited
upon the children to the third and
fourth generation of them that eat
pie, and long life and vigor upon
those that live prudently and keep
the laws of health.
8. Remember thy bread to bake
it we'll for he will not be kept sound
that eateth his bread as dough.
4. Thou shalt not indulge sor-
row or borrow anxiety in vain.
5. Six days shalt thou wash and
keep thyself clean, and the seventh
thou shalt take a great bath, thou,
and thy son, and thy maid-servant,
and the stranger that is within thy
gates. For in six days man sweats
and gathers filth and bacteria
enough for disease wherefore the
Lord has blessed the bath-tub and
hallowed it,
6. Remember thy sitting-room
and bedchamber to keep them ven-
tilated, that thy days may be long
in the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee.
7. Thou shalt not eat hot bis
cults.
s. Thou shalt not eat thy meat
fried.
8. Thou shalt not swallow thy
food unchewed or highly spiced. or
just before hard work, or just after it
10. Thou shalt not keep late
hours in thy neighbor's house, nor
with thy neighbor's wife, nor his
man servant, nor his maid servant,
nor his cards, nor his glass, MOI
anything that is thy neighbours
New England Farmer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
Achievements of Surgery.

At the Surgical Congress at Ber-
lin, Professor Gluck, of Berlin, gave
(says Dalziel) an exhibition show
ing a most valuable advance in eur
gerry, namely, the successful Sub
stitution of catgut, ivory, and bone
freed from chalk, for defects in
bones, muscles, and nerve sinews.
The juices of the body are sucked
up in the inserted material, thereby
establishing the junction of the sep
arated ends, without any shorten,
ing of the part. He presented the
cases of patients in whom there had
been an insertion Of from six to ten
centin1eters of catgut to supply de-
fects in the leaders Of the hands, to
which complete mobility had been
restored. This case has previously
bsen. impossible: In the case of
anotherpatient Professor Gluck re-
moved tumor from the thigh,
causing a considerable defec9in the:
bone. He inserted ivory, and no
shortening ensued. In another case
he removed large piece of nerve in
the groin and inserted catgut, and
the functions remained completely
satisfactory.-Scientific American.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
A Mans Head on a Baby's Shoulders.

The death of remarkable freak
of nature occurred here recently.
Thirty-twoyears ago there was born
to silas Hfi and wife, of Parkes-
burg, Ia. t@ boy baby. 1t was nor
mally developed with the exception
that the head was large in proper
ton te the body. After two years
the body of the boy did not grow,
but the head developed until it was
as large as that of an ordinary man,
and full beard grew on the face.
For thirty years the freak has been
tied in a chair and fed with spoon.
It's mother was obliged to get up
three or four times during each
night to attend to its wants. 1t
could never speak word, but re-
warded it's mother with grateful
look. Her constant fear was lest
she should die before her boy and
no one be left to wait on him. The
other children of the family are per-
fectly normal.-Corr. N. 7. World.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
A New Material for Hats.

Many of the cheap derby hats
that will be worn this spring will
be made of new material. The
stuff is called linters. It is the
short cotton left on the seed after
the cotton has been ginned by the
cotton raiser. He sells his cotton
to the merchant, and the seed to
mill that makes cotton-seed oil.
The miller puts the seed through
another gin, especially made to
clean short cotton from the seed.
In an oil mill Of small capacity
several bales of cotton are ginned
from the seed in this way. The
fiber is broken and very short, and
up to few months ago the mills
sold it to stuff bedding with. It's
price was about half that of average
cotton. Suddenly somebody found
out that it could be made to initiate
felt for cheap hats. The experiment
then of making hats of linters was
tried on a large scale by a New
York factory, and the hats we're sold
to retailers for introduction very
cheaply. The test showed that the
hats stood wear, and the oil mills
were at once called on by the man
ufacturers to make contracts for all
the linters they could get off the
cotton seed. Now linters has gone
way up in price and is only few
cents pound cheaper than cotton.
The discovery is likely to have a
lowering effect upon the kind of
derbies which have sold for So, and,
in fact some merchants are already
using the linters derbies as 'lead-
ers'' for their other goods, selling
them at half the cost of the felt hat.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
EQUAL to the Occasion.

During the late unpleasantness,
says the Chicago Herald, the Seven
teenth Wisconsin was in command
of Mai. McAuley, and the Sixteenth
Wisconsin was commanded by Col.
Tom Reynolds Of Madison, Wis.
Both are jolly Irishmen, and both
are fond of joke. On one occa-
sion the two met while on their way
to the front with their commands.
McAuley's regiment had halted for
a rest, and the men were lying on
the grass by the roadside when
Reynolds command came march
ing by. The two men were well
acquainted, and McAuley, from his
position on the roadside, called out
to Reynolds: "Where ale you going
with your regiment, Colonel?" The
latter turned, glanced at his friends
recumbent soldiers and replied,
proudly: "We're going to the front,
where we belongp' This was some
what in the nature Of a corker, and
REYNOLDS men allowed a chuckle
to run through their column at their
leaders little pleasantly. Thus en-
couraged, Reynolds called out to
his questioner, "And where are you
goingw McAuley was equal to the
occasion and he retorted: "You're
going to the front, and we have
orders to fall in behind you and
keep YOU there"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
Why Not Have the Old Wayp

While in conversation with one
Of our most eminent physicians,
says an exchange, for some reason
it drifted into the results of good
and bad liquor upon the human
system and he related the following.
and it is of the greatest Importance
to those who use liquor in any form:
II have been studying the results
of alcoholic drinks on the human
system for a long time, and find
that there are more deaths caused
from the use of liquor in the states
governed by prohibition than by
those of high license.
"Years ago, in Kentucky and
other southern states, where there
was but a small revenue on Liquor,
people lived to be a hundred years
old and very often far older, and at
the same time there was hardly
day passed that their tables were
not adorned with liquor of the high
est grade, even. the most poverty
stricken, and it was very rare oc-
currence to see a person overly IN
toxicated upon the streets. In the
field could be found a jug of liquor
in the place of water. If farmer
was in need of hand to help in
the harvest field, he could not make
bargain without first being asked
how much liquor he would be
allowed day.
Nov a person goes to work and
probably not touch any for a week
and at the end of that time he draws
his pay and the first thought that
strikes him favorably is to go where
he can get liquor, and will proba-
bly, lay in a supply-to the extent
of his means-of what is called
whisky" but is nothing more than
aniseseed, tobacco and red pepper
diluted in water with tinge of alco-
hol, which leaves the system in a
dilapidated condition and often re-
suits in delirium tremons and death
often ensues. If liquor was used
now as it was in years gone by the
world would be but a happy dream,
now it is like hideous nightmare.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
S1EELMAKIN6.
A New Method Much More Simple
Than the Old.

T. G. Bates IS a gentleman VINO
does not think he can have too many
irons in the fire, provided he can
turn them all into steel. He claims,
however, that he can do this every
time by process so simple and
cheap that, if it can be carried out
on large scale as successfully as
in the experiments he has made,
the art of making tool steel will be
revolutionized.
The best process now in use for
converting iron into tool steel is a
long and costly one, involving COM
plete melting and a great deal of
manipulation, and the product sells
at from IL to 40 cents pound, ac-
cording to it's grade. Mr.. Bates
takes the run of the scrap heap,
from scrap iron to Bessemer steel,
wrought or cast iron indifferently,
puts it through single process
with only one heating and no melt
ing at all, and produces steel that
will take a higher temper, a finer
polish, and show better grain than
any other steel in the world.
The great Importance of this dis
covery lies in its simplicity and
consequent cheapness. Heretofore
tool steel has been made from cru
chile steel, which has to be melted
and some idea Of the trouble and
expense involved may be gained
from the statement that much OF
the finer grade of steel used in this
country is made from English bis
ter steel, which is itself made from
Norway wrought iron by process
that requires from two to three
weeks time. Even then it is too
soft for tools and has to be converted
into crucible steel by another ex-
pensive process. Inch bars of the
same iron are converted into the
finest kind of tool steel by the Bates
process in twenty-four hours by one
operation.
AS will be readily seen, the pos
sibilities of such an invention are
infinite. One of the first results ex-
pected is that the $5O,OOO,OOO now
annually sent abroad for steel bill
let's from which to make wire will
be kept at home. Another is a
marked improvements in car wheels
| Still another is the manufacture
of armor plates for iron, or rather
steel-clad vessels. At present there
is no way of securing hardness and
toughness in the same plate: the
nearest approach to it being an in
ner skin Of tough steel and an outer
one of hardened steel. Even the
boring Of rivet holes in this mass
is work of immense labor and ex.
pense. Mr.. Bates proposes to make
plates of mild steel, bore them while
in that state, when it can be done
cheaply and easily, and then harden
the outer surface-a process which
it is calculated, will increase the
plates resistance to the blow Of
shot at least 25 per cent.--Phila
delphia Inquirer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24

king or horseshoe crap, Wnlcn cneWS
it's food with it's legs. This is an
actual fact, the little animal grinding
t it's morsels between its thighs be-
fore it passes them to its mouth.
The jelly fish absorbs it's food by
wrapping itself around the object
which it seeks to make it's own.
The star fish is even more accom-
modating. Fastening itself to the
body it wishes to feed on, it turns
its stomach inside out and enwraps
its prey with this useful organ.
Dogs seize their food with their
jaws, cats with their feet, and SO do
monkeys, some of them pressing
their prehensile tails into service.
The squirrel uses its paws to carry
it's food to it's mouth, the elephant
it's trunk, and the giraffe, anteater
and toad with their tongue.
Spiders chew their food with
horny jaws, which are sharp enough
to give quite grip.
Grasshoppers and locusts are
very well provided with the neces-
sary machinery for eating much
and often. They have saw-like jaws,
and gizzards, too, the latter being
fitted out with horny teeth. The
caterpillar feeds with two sawedged
Jaws, working transversely, and
uses them to such good advantage
that he eats three or four times his
own weight every day.
Toads, tortoises, turtles, and most
Lizards have no teeth. Frogs have
teeth in their upper jaw only.
Anteaters, sloths and armadillos
have no teeth.
The lion and the tiger, and, in
deed, most of the carnivora, do not
grind their food, using their jaws
only up and down, the molars act
ing like chopping knives, or rather
scissors. Their mouths, in fact,
are a veritable hash mill.
The butterfly pumps nectar into
itself through a tube, and bees and
flies suck up their food with a long
tongue or a proboscis. The spiders
mouth is quite complicated affair.
1t has fangs for holding it's prey,
masticatory organs for bruising its
solid food and sucking apparatus
for taking up the fluids. Quite as
complicated is the mouth of the
mosquito, which consists of the
lances, the saws and the pumping
| tubes.
The leech has three saws, with
which it does good service in the
| phlebotomy line.
The woodpecker has a three
barbed tongue like FUian's spear,
with which it draws out the worm
which it has excited by its tapping.
The clam feeds with a siphon and
the oyster with its beard.
Strange and curious as some OF
these modes of feeding are, however,
they none of them compare in sim
plicity and effectiveness with that
practiced by the tape-worm. This
creature has neither mouth nor
stomach, but just lays along and
absorbs the already digested food
through its skin.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
Indian Warfare.

General Sherman, writing to a
friend, says: "The Indian wars were
of as much importance as our great
civil war, because the entire subju-
CATION of these and other savages
was indispensably necessary before
the great railroads could be built
and the great West settled by a
civilized people. Few remain who
appreciate the hardships, cold, hum
ger and bloody fight, the marks of
which some carry as evidence of
the perils they have endured. 1t
can not otherwise be, then, that
such should feel just pride in the
share they bore in the victory Of
civilization"
In General Crooks order after the
Rose Bud campaign he said "In-
dian warfare is OF all warfare the
most dangerous, the most trying
and the most thankless. Not recog-
nized by the high authority of the
United States Senate as war, 1t still
possesses for you the disadvantages
of civilized warfare, with all the
horrible accompaniments that bar
barians can invent and savages can
execute. In it you are required to
serve without the incentive to pro-
motion or recognition, in truth
without favor or hope of reward.
You have been on the side Of the
weak, the sparsely settled frontier,
against the strong and numerous
enemy, and those few on the from
tier will remember your efforts with
gratitude. If in the future it should
transpire that the avenues for rec
ognition Of distinguished services
and gallant conduct are opened,
those rendered in this campaign
will be recommended for suitable
reward pending this the following
named officers and men are men.
toned as carrying on their persons
honorable marks of distinctions in
the severe wounds they have re-
ceived at the hands of the enemy
then follow: 2 officers, Sd Cavalry ;
3 enlisted men, I'd Cavalry; 19, Sd
Cavalry; 5, 5th Cavalry; 3, 4th
Infantry; 1, 9Th Infantry-a total
wounded of 2 officers and 80 EN-.
listed men. The day before General
Crooks death he spoke of his being
glad the brevet bill had become
law, and that he would thus be able
to reward those who had served him
for years in the West. Little did he
know that twenty-four hours from
then he would have passed into the
Happy Hunting Grounds, and II
would remain for others to see that
Justice was done those who had
fought the savage Sioux and Apache
with him.-Army and Navy Journal
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24

other use for one than to proceed
to exhaust it. But Choate needed
money, and went to Webster to bor-
row some. II have got dollar"
said Webster, musingly, and then
he added: "But see here, Choate,
you say you want $500. Make out
your note for that amount, III In
dorse it and Corcoran & Rigg viii
let you have the money" Choate
Immediately agreed, when Webster
continued "While you are at it
you may as we'll make the note for
a thousand and give me $500, too
And so the note was drawn, and re-
naming always unpaid, is retained
as a souvenir in the banking house
of Corcoran & Riggs at Washing
ton to this daY.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24

GEO. J. LEWIS, Agent.
Notice of Forfeiture.

TO J. w. LANE and WILLIAM LANE, their
heirs and assigns:
You are hereby notified that +! have eX-
pended the sum of one hundred (1O0) dol
,ars in labor and improvements upon the
MORNING STAR lode mining claim,
situated in Sawtooth mining district, and
adjoining the Telephone and Emma min
ing claims on the southeast in Alturas
county, Idaho Territory, in order to hold
said premises under the provisions OF Sec
lion 1924, Revised Statutes Of the United
States, being the amount required TO hold
The same for the year ending December 81,
1897 and if within ninety days from the
service of this notice, or within ninety days
after this notice by publication yon fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion OF
such expenditure as co-owners, your inter
tst being an undivided one-third, amount
ing to $33. 3Sla, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the subscriber
under the provisions of said Section 1924.
JOHN COLLINS.
ketchum, l. T., January %, 1890.
First publication, Jan. 25. 1890.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
The Louisiana Lottery.

Fully 1000 people attended a
meeting held in New Orleans, re-
Gently, to protest against the pro-
posed rechartering of the Louisiana
Lottery Company. Several prom
inent citizens made speeches charg-
ing various evils against the lottery
company, and appealing to the peo-
pie to wipe out its banetul influence
in Louisiana. One of the speakers
asserted that the Louisiana Lottery
Company dictated to the press OF
New Orleans, and that it was inn
possible for a man to express an
opinion in opposition to the lottery
company in the columns OF q New
Orleans paper. As already stated
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
An Idea from Japan.

DR.. Sato, japanese surgeon OF
very high eminence, is authority for
an assertion that the general effect
of cutting off a leg or an arm is to
increase the physical activity OF
all that remains of the sufferer.
He predicts that as medical science
progresses amputation of a hand
or an arm will probably be resorted
to as a cure for phlegmatic nerves,
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
AfPowerful Stimulant.

Some experiments by Professor
Haeckel of Marseilles show that
kola is a drug Of extraordinary
powers of stimulation. The Colonel
of regiment at Perpignan, dosed
with kola, made the ascent of the
Canigon mountain, 9,137 feet, and
felt quite fresh after his climb, which
lasted twelve hours. He only halted
once, and for twenty-eight minutes,
and ate nothing. The One Hundred
and Twenty-fourth regiment last
July marched for fifteen and half
hours from Laval to Rennes, a dis
tance of forty-6ve miles, and were
fresh at the finish. They walked at
the rate of 81 miles an hour. kola
produces similar effect on horses.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24

The KEYSTONE has long been acknowl-
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 a
complete synopsis of all mining news and
developments, as we'll as matters of local
importance in the growth of Ketchum, the
future metropolis of Idaho, it is aninvalua-
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, 1890-05-24
Notice to Creditors.

Estate of ALBERT w. COMSTOCK, de-
ceased
NOTICE IS HEREB? GIVEN BY THE
~ undersigned administrator of the es-
tate of Albert w Comstock, deceased. to
the creditors of. and all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to exhibit
them with the necessary vouchers, within
ten months after the first publication of
this notice, to the said administrator at the
First National Bank in the town Of ketch-
una. in the said county of Alturas:
GEO. NJ. SNOW,
Administrator of Estate of Albert w. Com
stock, deceased.
Dated at Ketchum, Idaho, Oct. p, 1899.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
f the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region

in the Sun, the lottery company
will make proposition to the next
Louisiana legislature to pay the
state $500, 900 a year for twenty-five
years for rechartering the company
for that length of time. Most of
the New Orleans papers favor the
proposition, but it is understood
Governor Nichols will strongly an
tagonize the proposition.-Balti-
more Sun.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24
ChOate and Webster.

Once upon time Rufus Choate
was in Washington and had spent
all the money he had with him, be-
side exhausting his bank account
by checks on it. He and Daniel
Webster were alike in respect to
bank accounts, that they knew no
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-24

Baron Liebig, the great German
chemist, says that, "as much flour
as can lay on the point of table
knife contains as much nutrltlve
constituents es eight pints OF the {:
most nutritious beer that 10 made"