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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10
Notice of Forfeiture.

10 JOHN KANE, or his heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that l have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred 1907 dol
lars in labor and Improvements upon the
rOfFY lode mining claim, situated
trict, Alturas county, Idaho Territory, in
order to hold said premises under the pro-
visions of Section 1924, Revised Statutes of
the United States, being the amount re.
CURED to hold the same for the year ending
December 81, 1899; that your proportion of
the same is fifty (5O) dollars, being one
half, and if within ninety (9O) days from
the service of this notice, or within ninety
500 days after this notice by publication
you fail or refuse to contribute your pro-
portion of such expenditure as co-owner,
your interest in said claim will become the
property of the undersigned, under the
provisions of said Section 1924.
NJ. RYAN.
Ketchum, Idaho, January Is, 1880.
First publication, Jan. Is. 1880.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10

The House bill authorizing the
Secretary of War to deliver to the
state of Colorado the flags carried
by Colorado regiments during the
war of the rebellion has been passed.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10

A CORRESPONDENT of the Salt
Lake Tribune says: "a blunder on
the part of the republicans in the
Senate, and sharp practice on the
part of the democrats, has post
poned the consideration of the ter
ritOrial bills"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10

RATHER unexpected strength has
been developed in the various cop
per markets of the world during
the past six months, says Brad
efrooto
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10

THE Rio Grande Western Rail-
way has completed arrangements
to send any traveller who desires it
around the world in seventy days.
The total fare is $85O-starting
point Salt Lake City.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10

THE Supreme Court of the United
States has rendered a decision in
the case of Leisy VS.. Hardin, hold
ing unconstitutional the law of
Iowa providing for the seizure of
liquor brought from other states.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10

What is tattler? A vile leech,
supping the life-blood of human
happiness. Speak well of your
neighbor. even if you have to lie a
little.-Bellevue Press.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10
NOTICE.

Walter Clark and Thomas Tague having
purchased the interest of Albert w. Com
stock, deceased, of the late firm of Com
stock, Clark & Co., doing business in
ketchum, Idaho, the name and style of the
firm hereafter win be Clark & Tague. The
and collect all bills of the late firm of Com
stock, Clark & Co.
CLARK & TAGUE.
Ketchum, Idaho. March S, 1890.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10

CONSIDERATION of the silver bill
was postponed in the Senate on
Wednesday, the time set for taking
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10
NOTICE TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS,

Tho date printed ON the wrapper of each
paper denotes tho time up to which the
subscription has been paid.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10
NOTICE..

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ the accounts of Jerome F. Jacobs have
been placed in my hands for collection.
and all parties indebted to said Jerome r.
Jacobs are requested to call and settle at
once and save costs.
E. B. WILLIAMS.
Ketchum, January l, 1880
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-05-10

Or Consolidated Implement Company,
Agents for Utah and Southern Idaho.
Houses at Salt Lake City, Ogden, Logan
and Milford, Utah.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18

The simplest forms of amusement
mong the blind arc skipping the rope,
playing tag and walking. All OF these
sports arc easily learned, and t!.ey arc
means of working off the superfuous, the
animal activity, that children, whether
blind or seeing, always possess.
The playground of the New York in
stitu6on is admirably adapted for its
purpose. 1t is I square, paved enclosure,
surrounded by a high brick wall, and
containing nothing to stumble against,
If one wants to see how blind children
play he should visit this yard some day
during the recess hour.
At the tap of the bell the junior classes
are dismissed, and with a whoop and Il
hurrah and tremendous scuff1ing OF feet,
the youngsters rush pcll-mell out OF doors.
II one had never seep them before ne
coIld hardly believe they were blind.
Greater confusion one never saw. At
once they are tangled in knots that seem
as if they never could be unravelled, and
no sooner are they out of one tumble
than they are in another. Finally their
exubcrance is expended and the games
begin. The most muscular boys prefer
ieapfror. and voc be it to the unluckV
CHAP VINO stana TOO near the nVlng posi-
the human frog vaults over. He is for
tunate if he is not rolled over on the
ground and Aattened out beneath the
falling weight.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18
A BL1Np oRGANIsT LEARNING.

First-When the letter ends with a
point in the upper row, as in the letter
IS" add the suffix in the lower row.
Second-Whcn the small letter ends
with a point in the lower row, as in &C, "
or in both upper and lower rows, as IN
sd" add the suffix in the upper row.
The writing tablet and guide arc in
eeniously devised, aud consist of a
wooden frame lined with punctured
brass. Over this frame the writing pa
Der. a sheet Of heavy brown paper, is
placed, and over that the guide is fas-
tened. This is made of brass, in which
the word "Institution'; has been written,
or rather punctured with small awl or
style, which is the blind writer's pen.
The writing is done from right to left.
When sheet of paper is turned over
the reader can easily feel the points that
have been made with the tips of his fin
gers, and the writing is as plain to him
as print is to US. With little practice
the blind become wonderfully expert,
not only in reading but writing, and a
bright student can make notes of lsc-
turc with his machine almost as RAPIDLY
as i reporter Can with his pencil.
This same system in the main has
been adapted by Superintendent Wait
for the notation of music. But writing
music is much more difficult than writ
ing letters. A great many new charac-
tcrs have to be used to Indicate the notes
and their time value.
In studying music the pupil is trained
by ear at first. The difference in the
notes and their time, the flats and sharps,
rests and intervals, are all mastered be-
fore the work of reading and writing
music is taken up. After that the task
is not so hard rs it looks. Whep blind
person comes across a new piece OF music
he must learn it note by note. There is
no such thing as playing at sight, of
course, and the work is very slow, but it
can be accomplished, and among the pu-
pills in the advanced classes there are sew
eral bows who can master new and diff
ticult selection almost as rapidly as some
boys can who are gifted with seeing
eyes.
In the chapel the Herald artist found
one of the advanced pupils studying q
new composition for the organ. His
right hand he used instead of his eyes,
feeling the sheet of music that lay beside
him, while with his left hand he played
the various notes until he had memorized
them.
There is peculiar printing establish
ment in this city where very little ink
and hardly any type, rs most printers
know type are used. 1t Is here that the
music books and the school books for
the blind are printed. There are square
blocks with points on them to correspond
with the points in letters that are used,
which take the place of common type.
These are set up from the "copy" and
printed on heavy paper. This paper is
afterward vanished so that the points
will not be worn down by constant use.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18

BLIND BoYS PLAYING LEAP FROG.
twenty. Thirty per cent. meet their
aff1iction between the ages of twenty and
fifty, and forty-five per cent. Or nearly
half the blind persons in the world, reach
the age of fifty years before they lose
their sight.
Consequently, among the blind, chill
dren are IN very great minority. There
is another reason why there are few
games that blind children can play. With
the blind any movement of the hands or
feet that is not perfectly natural is all ef.
fort. A seeing child, for instance, does
thousand things he has not been taught
by imitation. He sees his brother
dress himself, and initiates him without
any conscious effo:t on his part. He
watches other children at their work and
in their play, and without knowing how
he acquires the knowledge, he learns to
do as they are doing.
The little blind boy has not this facul-
ty. He cannot dress himself until he
has been taught by many patient lessons
how it shall be done. Learning to but
ton his shirt up in front is the work of
days and perhaps of weeks. He cannot
even eat as other children can without
going through long and tedious period
of instruction. And some blind children
whose parents are over indulgent to them
do not learn to walk until they are FIVE
or six years old.
Several years ago pupil was brought
to Mr.. Wait who was eight years old and
could not walk single step. He could
not read or write and his hands were of
little more use to him than the chubby
fingers of Il baby. Mr.. Wait declined to
receive the helpless boy, and told his
father to bring him back when he could
walk. 1t was two years before he saw
the child again, and even then, in spite
of the careful training he had received
during that time, the little fellow was
only able to toddle a few steps at time.
This time, however, he was received,
and in the course of years he learned to
walk and run, but he never played as
other children do.
This is an unusual case, but there arc
instances almost rs painful every year,
and even where the blind children arc
given every advantage Of training their
parents can afford they are very far from
beng self-hclpful when they arc adj
mi:ted to the institution.
One can readily understand that such
children cannot share the amusements OF
seeing children, and you can realize how
difficult it has been to devise any games
for them that do not tire them to learn
more than they amusc them.
Still blind children arc no less fond OF
sports than children who can sec, and
those games that they can play are en-
joycd equally as much as you enjoyed
your game of ball OF checkers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18

The town clock ct Springfield had
Just struck one, and it then was the
first of December, the day that had
been set for the robbery of the bank.
Two masked men had been hidden IN
an old building that stood back OF the
one in which the banking rooms we're,
and, few moments before the clock
struck, they emerged from their hiding
place and went to back window OF the
bank. There were iron bars across this
window, but they had been sawed IN
two some time before this, and now all
that was necessary to be done was
simply to push these bars aside, DO q
little cutting of glass, and they could
easily get into the bank.
The work was quickly done, and they
were both on the inside. Noll noise
lessly and quickly glided to the inner
room, where the safe was. In few
moments "Jim the Desperate" who
knew the combinations of many safes,
was quickly sliding the bolts in this
one, while the unknown was on the
watch.
In less time than would be supposed
was necessary to open the safe, the
door was swung open, and Noll, as he
thought, was now in possession OF o
few thousand more which would buy
the comforts Of Life
Just as these thoughts were passing
through his mind he heard deep,
stern voice behind him:
"Surrender, Jim, for you are my
prisonerp And startled from his dream
of fancy, he looked up to see in front
of him two large, muscular policemen,
each pointing cooked pistol at his
head.
Nol's face was as pale as death, for
never before had he been in quite such
close quarters; but, quick as thought,
he realized his position and drew from
his pocket pistol.
Down with that, jim; you are only
making matters worse, for there is no
chance for you now."
Noll's eyes looked like two great
Goals of fire, as he glanced from one to
the other of the policemen. As the
two men then stood, there was small
space left between them, and as that
was Nolls only chance of escape, he
stopped and darted through that space,
quick as flash, and started for the
open window, but before he reached it
he was knocked senseless to the floor by
the heavy club of a third policeman,
left to guard the window. He was
then bound and left lying unconscious
on the floor until o patrol wagon ar
rived, when he was taken to the station
and securely locked up in dark, mar.
row cell, where he was left alone to
realize, if possible, the sweet dreams
he had had of the stolen beauty and
the happy days he intended to spend in
some distant land.
As for the unknown, who had placed
Noll in the hands of justice, his where
abouts was like his name, unknown"
for as soon as the policemen had charge
of the bank he disappeared, and they
never saw him afterward.
fro pp cnrTrFUEp1
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18

Hide and seek IS another popular
sport. The boy who is sit" doesn't cover
his face while the other boys are hiding
themselves, and those who are sought
make no effort to conceal themselves.
They are found by the sense of touch
after search that seems as hopeless to
the locker on as the finding OF needle
in haystack. :,
Tag and skipping the rope are played
the same way that seeing persons are ac-
customed to play them. and barring the
accidental knocks the players get they are
highly enjoyed.
The girls find pleasure in walking
around their yard and talking and in
skipping the rope and playing tag. How
ever, in this yard the sports are gentler
and knocks and bruises are the exception
and not the rule.
The older boys take their exercise in
walking or in the gymnasium. You
would be surprised to know how wonder
fully we'll some blind persons can pilot
themselves around this busy town. There
! are students in this institution who walk
for miles around the city, board street
cars, cross crowded streets, ride on the
elevated roads and ferries and even
make short journeys into the country al
most as we'll as if they were gifted with
eyesight.
One of the former students goes every
day from New JERSEY, where he lives, to
Harlem and also to Columbia College on
foot and without guide, and sometimes
when he has time he walks down town
on the crowded West Side with no more
fear of accident than he would have in
his own room.
In the gymnasium the would-be athlete
confines himself to dumbbell exercises,
swinging the clubs and work on the bars,
pulleys and swing. He can never box or
fence, of course, but he frequently be-
comes an expert wrestler.
As have explained before, there must
be certain amount of education before
blind child can enjoy indoor sports.
The first step in this training is learning
to read and write.
Superintendent Wait says that while
the old alphabet was in use not more than
one person out of ten could read without
! great difficulty. This state OF affairs led
to the creation of the present point al
phabet. The letters are made of points,
and page of book does not look un,
like a page written in the Morse tele-
graphic alphabet.
This alphabet is very easily learned and
not easily forgotten. Some of the boys
in the institution have been known to
memorize it in less than an hour of study.
The capital letters are derived from tho
small letters by affixing to each of them
as many points as will form new char
acter, four points in length, in the fol-
lowing manner
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The Prohibition party is twenty-onc years
old this July.
A State w. C. T. q. of colored women Isl
contemplated in North Carolina.
Iowa has now no State debt, and q balance
last month of $l57, 900 in its Stata treasury.
Kentucky, for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1859, produced p, 130,50l gallons OF
whisky.
About fifty young men, chiefly students
from the State university, signed the pledge
at the Mississippi W. c. T. U. convention
lately held at Oxford.
Rev R. Il. Mcdonald. D. D., OF Califor-
MIA, SAYS that statistics show that tho liquorI
traffic causes at least ninety poi cent OF tne|
pauperism and crime in the city aud county
OF San Francisco.
A School of Hygiene" conducted BY. Dr1
Hattie B. Jones, assistant physician OF ing
West Virginia insane hospital. will be spec
ial feature of the eighth annual convention,
of the w G. T. U. Of West Virginia to-b3
held at Wheeling. June 4-j.
A girl Of only twelve was committed as !"
confirmed drunkari" to an industrial school
in San Francisco few years ago. Hed
mother stated that tho girl would steal, beg
or do almost anything to get liquor, and thai
she haf! been drinking for nearly year. All
attempts either to reform her Or prevent het1
getting liquor had been failures, 1t wa
stated. --..------ -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18
FEARFUL DEED OF AN OHIO FARMER.

At o'clock A. NJ, Patrick MalIoy q
farmer residing in Wayne Township, Ohiosa
murdered his son George, aged twenty two;,a
and an hour later blew out his own brains
with ths same revolver. For years Patrick,
Malloy has been drinking man, and his
abuse Of his wife finally drove her into in-:a!
sanity. His own condition was such that his
landlord, Reuben Smith, would not trans
act business with him, and the son George
became the mainstay and real head Of tho
family. Several years ago George wanted
to leave home, but his mother, brothers and.
sisters implored him to remain on their acs.s
count, and he yielded to their wishes. The.
old man has been growing more intolerabls
in his abuse Of late, and the son declared hiS7
intention Of leaving homo. George told b
father he was going to leave, when the
man pulled out revolver and shot his
while his back was turned. When he found:
that his son was dead Mr.. Malloy turned
the weapon upon himself and blew out his
brains in the presence Of his family. CHI,
caoo Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18
AN Ex-N1N1srER's DEpLoaApLr FALL.

', A telling example of the evil of intoxicat-
ing liquors is that offered by the dismissal
Of Post Chaplain John Vaughan Lewis,
formerly popular minister Of St. Johns
Church, the most fashionable church in,
Washington City, who was appointed to o
chaplaincy in the army in 1883. He was
compelled to leave his church by his unfor-
tunate, and we must add, criminal habit Of
drinking. The habit pursued him after he
left the church and while chaplain in the
army. A year ago he was confined in an IN,
sane asylum for treatment. after having
been recommended for retirement by re-:
tiring board. 1t was hoped that the treat:
ment would result in partial cure, so that
he might be restored to duty; but such hAs
not been the case, and an order has been Is
sued directing his retirement with o year,s'
pay. Mr.. Lewis was q very able man, O..
clear, sharp writer, and our readers reay re-
member him as one who wrote for the lnds
pendent, fifteen years ago, very readable
article on 1.-THE Church with Capital G,n;
which made vigorous claim for the Church.
in which he was priest of the sole right to.
use the capital &c" as against the right OF
the ''sects." We very deeply regret that the
law does not find some way to protect such.
men who are too weak to protect them
selves, or at least their families .-IndepcRds
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18
BLIND CHILDREN.
THE GAMES THAT SIG HTLESS
LITTLE ONES CAN PLAY.
Before Blind Children Can Play In
door Games They Must Be Ed
ucated-Chess and Check
ers-An Alphabet.

The amusements of blind children are
necessarily limited in character and few
in number. Most outdoor sports cannot
be enjoyed by them, and thoae games
that are played indoors differ largely
from those of seeing children, either in
their construction or in their use.
One reason, perhaps, that there are so
few games for blind children lies in the
fact that there are very few blind chill
dren to play games. Those who sec have
IN idea that all blind persons have been
accustomed to the loss of their eyesight
all their lives. This is in reality very
far from being the case. Superintendent
William B. Wait, who has been in charge
of the New York State Institution for the
Blind for over thirty years, told me the
other day that only five per cent. of the
blind arc born without eyesight. Seven
per cent. lose their sight under the age
of ten years. Thirteen per cent. become
blind between the ages of ten and
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18

az would be the case were nothing of
that sort done.
After pupil has learned to read and
write and to play the piano or organ or
some other musical instrument he is
ready for games. His hands have been
trained so that he can do mechanically
what at first would have been the hard
est kind of work for him. Now he can
play checkers.
The checker board has every alternate
square raised, and the men fit into the
depressed squares. One side of each
man has hole in it, and when it is
crowned king this side is turned upper.
most. The white ''men" are round and
the black are square.
The same sort of board is used for
backgammon, and the dice all have sharp
points on them, instead of black dots,
to mark their values.
Chess is difficult game to learn, but
when it is once mastered the blind player
can enjoy it as we'll as one who sees, and
some of the pupils are remarkably brill
liant players. The chessmen have little
pins on the bottom of each piece which
fit into hole in the square, so that they
are held in place until they are moved by
the contestant.
Although the blind play cards they do
not asa rule take much pleasure IN this
kind of amusement. Each card, of course,
Is marked 80 that the player can tell ITS
value, but in game each player must
call out the card as he plays it so that his
opponent can tell what has been played;
This makes the game trife slow and
monotonous.
In conclusion, let me call attention to
something that most Herald readers have
probably noticed and have never heard
explained. If one has ever been near a
blind asylum in the evening he must have
noticed that the building is always illu-
minated. Why do the blind need lights9
It is because very few so-called blind
persons are really blind. While they
may not be able to distinguish objects,
they can, as a rule, distinguish between
light and darkness, and the gas-light
makes their rooms and halls much easier
for them to find their way in than dark:
ness would. .-Nep York Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-18
A Woman Who TASTED Nine Years.

The little town of Bourdeilles, in
Perigord, France, is becoming famous
through woman named Zelie Bovrivu,
who prerends to have tasted for nine
years and WHO'S now actually undergoing
a sixty-day fast under scientific pre-
cautions against fraud. The woman,
says the Chicago Tribune, is the widow
of a farmer of Paussac- Saint Vivien
named Guillame Garron, by whom she
had four children, all now dead. The
death of her husband was the beginning of
her fast. She is brunette, with brilliant
eyes and excessive nervousness. She has
lived since her alleged fasting begun
under the care of DR.. Lafon, who says
that he visited her frequently, and, while
unable to say that her story was untrue,
doubted it very much, and endeavored
frequently to induce her to submit to a
systematic course of observations that
would scientifically test her claim.
She always refused, and this confirmed
the doctor in his suspicion that the
woman was merely an ordinary hysterical
and perhaps unconscious fraud. Last