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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
How to Test Pebbles.

Down on lower Broadway, says
the Man About Town in the New
York Star. there is genial Teuton,
much patronized by the merchants
of that locality, who is a specialist
and scientist by education. He
keeps regular line of optical in
struments, and in conversation
held with him recently l learned
the true tests for pebbles, as dis
tinguished from the ordinary glasses
used in spectacles. The man took
my eyeglasses from me, and placing
the center of one lens between two
cross-sections of cylinder, united
by a wire with a curved spring,
babe me look at the letters on his
show window through transparent
square in each cross-section. l
found could see the letters dimly.
These" said the optician, "are
genuine pebbles. Were they not
you could see nothing. They would
be perfectly Opaque" Holding the
testing instrument up to the hght
perceived that each cross-section
of the cylinder contained in reality
square piece of tourmaline-one
light blue and the other green. The
pebble is so transparent as to trans
NIT light through this peculiar In
strument.
The other test is simply to apply
the tip of the tongue to the lens
which you believe to be a pebble
and compare it's temperature with
that of all ordinary spectacle glass.
1t will be readily seen that the peb-
BILE is cooler. This accounts for the
non-heating effect which these much
priced and expensive glasses have
upon the human eye. Another ad-
vantage is that they do not scratch
with ordinary uses. By bearing in
mind these infallible tests no reader
of the Star need hereafter be ''sold'
when desirous of purchasing genu
inc pebbles.
There are tricks in all trades, anc
I am reliably informed that a very
common one among questionable
dealers is to substitute ordinary
glasses for the original pebbles you
glasses may have contained wher
you left them to be repaired atte1
breaking a spring or otherwise In
turing them. The ordinary weare
of glasses has no means at his hand
of establishing the fraud until hi
glasses become scratched and de
faced from long wear. 1t is thel
too late to be remedied.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
Swiss Girls as Pack Animals.

No sooner are the Swiss girls large
enough to possess the requisite
physical strength than they are set
to the most servile work the land
affords, says a traveller. The child
has a panier basket fitted to her
shoulders at the earliest possible
moment and she drops it only when
old age, premature, but merciful,
robs her of power to carry it longer.
l have seen sweet little girls OF
twelve or fourteen staggering down
mountain-side or along rough
pathway under the weight of bun
dies of faggots as large as their
bodies, which they no sooner drop
ped than they hurried back for
others. I have seen girls of fifteen
years, barefooted and bareheaded
in the blistering rays of an August
sun, breaking up the ground by
swinging mattocks heavy enough to
tax the strength of an able-bodied
man.
l have known a young miss nc
older than these to be employed as
porter for carrying the baggage OF
travellers up and down the steepes1
mountain path in all the region
round about. She admitted that il
was sometimes very hard to take
another step, but she must do it
And she carried such an amount o.
ba ggage! A stout-limbed guide is
protected by the law, so that he car
not be compelled to carry above
twenty-five pounds, but the limi
to the burden put upon girls is theil
inability to stand up under anything
more. But the burden increases
with the age and strength of th'
burden bearers, till by the time thu
girls come to womanhood there il
no sort of menial toll in which they
do not bear a hand, and quite com
monty the chief hand.-Baltimor'
/ News.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
lThey Had Met Before.

"Now, SIR" began the attorney
for the defense, knitting his brows
and preparing to annihilate the wit
ness whom he was about to cross
examine, ''you say your name is
Williams. Can you prove that to
be your real name? Is there any
body in the courtroom who can
swear that you haven't assumed it
for the purposes of fraud and deceit
II think you can identity me
Yourself" answered the witness.
Il? Where did l ever see you
before, my friend?"
81 put that scar over your right
eye twenty-five years ago, when you
were stealing peaches out of fathers
orchard. I'm the same Williams. ,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
No Flag OF Truce.

at was the closing day at Fred
ericksburg," says General Kershaw.
when a man by the name of John
Kirklan came rushing into head
quarters and said: General, l can't
stand it any longer Referring to
the wounded Federals lying in front
of our breastworks, he said: Those
poor fellows yonder are crying for
water-they are perishing for water
and | came to ask your permis-
sion to 60 out there and carry them
some.'
"Said I: Kirklan, you know it
would be almost certain DEATH
"'Yes, said he, but l will risk it
for humanity's sake
"'I don't think l ought to give
you permission to co. said I, but l
was so struck with his heroism that
l let him go. He gathered some
canteens, filled them with water and
went over the breastworks. He got
few steps and came running back !;
l thought his courage had failed
him, but he came to me and asked
if he might put up white hand
kerchief. Said /: No, Kirklan, we
don't propose to use any flag OF
truce on this occasion
He got his canteens and went
over the breastworks again and
went about from man to man, Civ
ing the wounded water. At first the
enemy fired at him, but as soon as
they saw his purpose of course
they stopped, and he remained Out
there until he had given water tc
every one of those poor fellows
Atlanta Constitution.
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creased to 1913. But the total cleo
toral vote will probably be 42O,
making 211 necessary to a choice,
80 that the republicans will be l3
short of victory. If they can carry
Indiana, they will have 4 majority
in the Electoral College. Giving
the democrats all the states they
carried in 1888 and New York and
Montana, they will still lack four
votes of victory. The conclusion is
plain, therefore, that New York and
Indiana will be pivotal states in 1892
as they were in 1888, with this ar
ference, however, that the repubii-
cans must carry one or the other IN
order to win, while the Democrats
must carry both.-Philad'a Ledger.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
Are Cigarettes Injurious2

To querry as to the injurious
effect of cigarette smoking the
Chicago Herald replies as if a deep,
rich vein disgust had been tapped
in it's soul: There is but little ev-
idence that cigarettes are made OF
tobacco. They don't look like to-
bacco, don't taste like it, and GER
tainly don't smell like it. Tobacco
smoke has pleasant odor, but Il
there is anything on the earth or IN
the waters under the earth that has
a more disagreeable, nauseatlng
noisome, disgusting, loathsome
pernicious and nasty smell than
cigarette smoke it has not been dis
covered. 1t is said that bed-bugs
will not bite a cigarette smoker
What are the materials used for The
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
GEO. J. LEWIS, Agent.
Notice OF Forfeiture.

TO ]. ". LANE and WILLIAM LANE, their
heirs and ass igns:
You are hereby notified that / have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred (1O0) dol
lars 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,
ton 1924. Revised Statutes of the United
States, being the amount required to hold
the same for the year ending December 81,
1889; and if within ninety days from the
service of this notice, or within ninety days
after this notice by publication you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion OF
such expenditure as co-owners, your inter
est being au undivided one-third, amount
ing to S33. 33A, 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 o. 1890.
First publication, Jan. 25, 1880.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
A Prescription for Longevity.

One of my prescriptions for Ion
gevity may startle you somewhat.
It is this: Become the subject of a
mortal disease. Let half a dozen
doctors thump you and knead you
and test you in every possible way,
and render their verdict that you
have an internal complaint. They
don't know exactly what it is,
but it will certainly kill you by and
by. Then bid farewell to the world
and shut yourself up for an invalid.
If you are threescore years old when
you begin this mode of life, you may
very probably last twenty years,
and then you are-an octogenarian.
In the meantime, your friends out
side have been dropping out one
after another, until you find your
self almost alone, nursing your
mortal complaint as If it were your
baby, hugging it and kept alive by
it-if to exist is to live. Who has
not seen cases like this-a man or
a woman shutting himself or her.
self up, visited by doctor or sue
cession of doctors { remember that
once, in my earlier experience, |
was the twenty seventh physician
who had been consulted), always
taking medicine, until everybody
was reminded of that impatient
speech of relative of one of these
invalid vampires who live or the
blood of tired-out attendant
do wish she would get we'll
something" Persons who ara s,a-
up in that way, contlned 10 th5.I
chambers, sometimes to their beus,
have a very small amount OF vital
expenditure and wear out very little
of their living substance. They are
like lamps with half their wicks
picked down, and will continue to
burn when other lamps have used
up all their oil. An insurance office
might make money by taking no
risks except on lives of persons suf-
fering from mortal disease.-Oliver
Wendell Holmes, in July Atlantic.
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No Alternative.

l cannot resist telling you, ap-
propos of Urbana people, a story
that for years has gone the rounds
in Washington of an Ohio girl, who
is not a native of Urbana, although
she has frequently visited there,
writes julie Guthridge to the Urbana
Citizen. She spent one winter in
Washington during the Hayes ad-
ministration. She was bright, clever
and fascinating, and she appeared,
night after night, in succession OF
toilettes SO decollete as greatly to
shock the prim dowagers and pru-
dent mammas Of society. During
her stay at the Capital q few spo-
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
A MYSTERIOUS Wound.

A Mysterious Wound.
A group of old timers were talk
iag about the weather and the con-
yersation carried them back to the
great storms of years ago, says the
Minneapolis Journal. 1.-The queer,
est combination l ever knew" said
the Judge rehectively, twas biz
zard death, suspected murder and
attempted lynching that only mis-
carried because the subject missed
a train.
"The winter of 1879-80, as you
all recollect, was very severe one,
and many persons living on the
prairie were frozen to death. Some
time before man named Crandall
had moved from Morris to a farm
in Southeastern Dakota. One day
q big storm came up and Mrs. Gran
dali, who happened to be on the
plain with her youngest child, was
caught in the blizzard and both
were frozen to death. Mrs. Gran
dall's parents lived in Morris, and
when the sad news of her death
came her father started for Dakota
to bring back the remains of his
daughter and grand-child. Crandall
and his wife had not got along very
we'll together and in some way ru-
mors of foul play crept out.
The next afternoon the bereaved
father arrived in Morris with his
dead. The bodies were frozen solid,
and arrangement were made to thaw
them out. When this was done Mrs
Crandall's body was examined. A
deep wound in her side was found
1t didn't take the people of Morris
long to make up their minds that
murder had been committed. Gran
dali, it was thought, had arrived
that night with his surviving child
and gone to the house of his mother
| who lived near the village. A
lynching party was organized II
short order and armed with ropes
etc. The house was visited ano
thoroughly searched, but Crandal
was not to be found. His mother
insisted that he had not arrived
but she was not believed. Finally
the crowd gave up the search ane
went home disgusted.
"The next morning the body o
Mrs. Crandall had been entirel.
thawed out, and another examina
ton was made. There was no sigl
of the broad cash that horrifie'
the people before. There were M
bruises-no signs of foul play
There's mystery for you' But j
developed after while that the hesl
had folded together, giving the ex
act appearance of a long and hor
rible cash. When the body thawe,
out the CASH disappeared. ! tel
you, the would-be lynchers of tn
night before felt pretty cheap. Il
an hour or two Crandall himse]
arrived in town on the mornin
train. He had missed the train Q
the night before. That was all tha
saved him from a lynching. Q
course he could not help hearin
about what had been going on
what he said or thought | neve
knew, but you can guess.
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Sudden Death From Tight Lacing.

One of the dancers at the Court
Theatre in Berlin was found dead
in her bed. She had performed at
the theatre in the evening before
and seemed in good health. AT first
it was supposed that the girl had
committed suicide by taking poison,
but a post-mortem examination
showed that she had died from
failure of the hearts action, due to
tight lacing. The liver of the un-
fortunate young woman was horrl-
bly, deformed and crushed out of
shape. Professor Yirchow, at a
lecture he recently gave in Berlin
on Diseases Of the Liver. said that
half the cases Of diseases of the liver
| in women were brought about by
tight lacing.-Galiga Messenger.
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She Was Satisfied.

A drummer who travels for
Boston grocery concern says that
be sees in Maine some of the sharp
est tricks that are practiced any
where on his route. He gives the
following specimen to the Lewiston
Journal:
A farmers wife hustled into
store in Washington county the
other day and went for the propri-
etor with:
"Mr. B, bought six pounds
of sugar here last week, and when
| got home l found stone weigh
ing two pounds in the package"
"Yes, ra'am."
"Can you explain the swindle,
sir?"
II think can," was the proprie-
tors placid reply. when weighed
your eight pounds of butter week
before last l found a 2-pound pebble
in the jar, and when weighed your
sugar the stone must have slipped
into the scale somehow. We are
both growing old, ma'am, land | am
sorry to say that our eyesight isn't
to be trusted. What can l do for
you to-day, ma'am?"
For moment the woman gazed
at the tradesman over her brass
bound spectacles. Then she recol-
lected herself and remarked that
she had a dozen eggs which she
wished to exchange for hooks and
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-16
A Little Girls Device.

There are great many bright
children in the world in these days,
says the New York Star, and every
father and mother has store Of
remarkable stories concerning the
youthful progeny. A friend OF mine,
however, has little girl of three
summers who would take the pre-
MUM, I think, for Juvenile diplo-
macy. Sometimes | call upon her
and take her walking with me, and
on such occasions the confectioner
generally receives a visit. A few
days ago, however, when called to
get her for little walk l was es-
peciallv requested not to buy her
any candy, as she had been indulg-
ing too much in sweetmeats lately.
Indeed, it was made condition OF
her going with me that she should
not allow me to buy her candy.
We walked around in Madison
square for while and then down
Broadway toward Union square
We passed several shop windows
with attractive displays of caramels
and other such delicacies, but my
companion resolutely turned he'
little face from them and tried not
to notice them. Finally, however
we came to a window filled with
candied fruits, chocolate creams
and all the kinds of candies sh'
most delighted in. She ran up tt
the window and, devouring its con
tents with her eyes, said to me:
"Oh, 'tweetheart, won't ask 20.
to buy me any candy-I won't al
low you to-but please lend M
some money to buy you som
candy !"
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DANGERS OF THE PLAINS.
Adventures Experienced by the
Hardy Pioneers.


friends, all old buffalo hunters, now
living and prominent citizens OF
Wichita and Great Bend, in Kansas,
were camped in Paradise valley,
then a famous rendezvous of the
animals they were after. One day
when out on the range stalking and
widely separated from each other,
writes Henry Inman in Harper's
Weekly, an awful blizzard came up.
Three reached camp without much
difficulty, but he who was the far
thest away was fairly caught in it,
and night coming on, was compelled
to resort to a method frequently
employed by persons lost on the
plains. Luckily he soon found a
superannuated bull that had been
abandoned by the herd, and killing
him took out the viscera, and him
self crawled inside the huge beast,
where he lay comparatively COM
Portable until morning, the storm
having cleared off, and the sun
shining brightly. But when he at
tempted to get out he found him
self a prisoner, the immense ribs OF
the creature having frozen together
and locked him up as tightly as If
he were in a cell. Fortunately his
friends, who were searching for him
and firing off their rifies-which he
heard, and yelled out 10 them-dis-
covered and released him from his
peculiar predicament.
At another time two old plains
men were away upt the Platte among
the foothills hunting buffalo, and
they, as is generally the case, be-
came separated. In an hour or two
one killed fat young COW, and
leaving his rifle on the ground went
up and commenced to skin her
While busily engaged in the work
he suddenly heard right behind hin
a suppressed sort of snort, anc
looking around saw to his dismay
a monstrous grizzly ambling along
in that animals characteristic man
ner within few feet of him.
In front, only a few rods away
there happened to be clump o
scrubby pines, and he incontinentl,
made break for them, climbin!
into the tallest in less time than i
requires to write of it. The bea
deliberately ate a hearty meal OF
the COW, and when he had satisfe'
himself, quietly lay down alongsid
of the carcass and went to SLEEP
keeping one eye probably on tn
hunter corralled in the tree. L
the early evening his partner cam
to the spot, killed the bear, which
full of buffalo, was sluggish an
, unwary, and became an easy vic
tim, and the unwilling prisone
came down from his perch. Th
last time | saw him he told me h
still had the bears hide, which h
kept as memento of his foolish
ness III separating himself from hi
rife-a thing he had never don
before nor since, and which n
hunter should be guilty of.
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NOTICE..

AT A MEETING OF THE STOCK
"A holders OF the First National Bank OF
Ketchum, Idaho, held at its banking office
on the 2Sth day of February, 1850, the own
ers Of over two-thirds of the shares voted
10 go into liquidation on the 2Sth day OF
April, 1880, and close up its affairs. All
aote-holders and other creditors of said
association are therefore hereby notified to
present the notes and other claims against
the association for payment.
ID ated at ketchum, Idaho, April rs, 1880
ISAAC l. LEWIS, President.
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The KEYSTONE has long been acknowl-
edged to be the sole representative Of the
Great Upper Wood River and SawtootE
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 in 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, 1890-08-16
How InaActs Feed.

The butterfly pumps nectar into
itself through a tube, and bees and
flies suck up their food with their
long tongue or proboscis. The spl::
der's mouth is quite complicated
affair. 1t has fangs for holding it's
prey, masticatory organs for bruis-
ING it's solid food, and a sucking
apparatus for taking up the fluids.
Quite as complicated is the mouth
Of the mosquito. which consists OF
the gances, the saws and the pump,
ing tubes.
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NOTICE.

WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE
w for any labor to be performed on the
Blue jacket mine situated on Eagle Creek
In Warm Springs Creek mining district, in
Alturas county. Idaho. or for supplies furn
mine, which lease will expire on December
], 1891. CAD AYLWIN,
CHAPMAN & LIBBY.
BY JAS. NJ. Blossom, Attorney-in-fact.
Kecohum, Idaho, June l, 1880
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The Next Presidential Election

At the next Presidential election
six new states will be represented
in the Electoral College, casting a
total vote of 19. The situation is
figured out here to be like this: AT
the last election the electoral vote
was 4O1, of which 233 were cast tor
Harrison and 1853 for Cleveland.
The sure republican vote was 49,
and Harrison carried the two doubt
full states Of New York and Indiana,
with a combined vote of 81. At the
next election it is safe to say that
five of the new states will be repub-
lican and one, Montana, may be
cIassed as doubtful. The "sure re-
publican vote" will thus be in
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radio cases of smallpox made their
appearance. The pretty Ohio girl
was frightened.
Meeting the late DR.. Garnett at
an evening reception, where the
scan,iness of her attire was unusu-
ally noticeable, she said, with the
faintest approach to a giggle:
"Oh, doctor, / am coming down
to your Office to be vaccinated to-
morrow" looking down at her
shapely arm "you must put 1T some
place where it will not be seen."
The stately old gentleman, with
out change of muscle, gravely re-
piled: II am afraid, my dear, you
will have to swallow it.
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the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region.


manufacture of cigarettes? We
give it up. The imagination is
staggered at the conundrum. and
the stomach becomes unsettled
when the mind grapples with this
problem.