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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-07-04
What One Blast Did.

The papers have lately mentioned
how many prominent mines of the
country were discovered by chance.
There is a scrap to be added in the
history of the Cortez minee. SIM
con Wenban had run the Garrison
tunnel at great expense and was
left poor man, owing his creditors
$3.50, 900. There was not pound
of ore in sight whereby the debt
might be paid. As a last resort,
with forlorn hope, after the mine
had been closed, Simeon Wenban
drilled a hole in the hanging wall
and blasted out a huge piece of rock
which he found to be almost a solid
block Of metal, and part of an i'm
mense vein which had been paral-
leled hundreds of feet. This last
effort marked a sudden change that
seldom falls to the lot of man. It
was Wenban, the poor man, the la
borer, before that blast was fired;
it was Simeon Wenban, the mill
ionaire, but q second thereafter.
The first months run of his little
mill gave him 10000, and ever
since he has grown more wealthy.
The mine is the best paying prop
erty in the state at the present time.
Nevadan.
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A Boarding House Secret.

A certain lady who keeps rather
fashionable boarding house in this
city is troubled with ten boarders-
no less than ten-who possess enor-
nous appetites. Everybody that
knows boarding house can realize
that ten boarders with large appe-
tites are very hard upon the profit
of the concern. She tried, like a
thorough business woman, all sorts
of methods to check these ungodly
appetites, but to no avail.
One day she happened to tell her
family doctor of these ten hungry
men and how they worried her, and
he said Immediately:
"Why, can give you an easy
remedy for that"
She told him that she would be
very much obliged to him for any
help that he could give her on the
subject, and moreover said that it
would be worth a great deal of
money to her.
"Well," said he, "next week bake
a lot of lemon pies and see that
those ten boarders get their share
of pie"
as that all your prescription,
doctor?" said the lady.
"Yes ma'am," he replied, "and
you will find it is quite enough"
So the next week she baked q
number of lemon pies, and she saw
to it that the ten boarders were
helped twice to pie on the first day.
After that she noticed gradually
that their appetites fell away, and
at the end Of that week there was an
unmistakable diminution in the bill
for provisions required for that
boarding house.
The lemon pie diet was continued
until the boarding house became as
profitable as it had previously been
Improbable. 1t is not within my
power to say exactly how the lemon
pie acts on the average boarder, but
it is certainly fact that in this case
the lemon pies produced what no
other system of dieting could ac-
complish. This recipe may be Of
use to some of the down trodden
boarding house mistresses.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
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Always Harvest Time.

It is literally true that harvesting
is going on in some parts Of the
world all the year round. Except
ing November and December there
is not a month in which wheat and
other grains are not being harvested.
In December and January the har-
vest of Chile, the Argentine Repub-
lie, of parts of Australia and New
Guinea, is being gathered. In Feb
ruary and March the wheat harvest
of the East Indies is cut, while in
MAY comes the harvest of Texas,
Japan, China, Turkey, Asia Minor,
Tunis, Algiers, Morocco and Egypt.
June is the harvest month of Cali
fornia, Spain, Portugal, South Por-
tugal, South Italy, Sicily and Greece
while in July the reapers are at
work in France, Austria, the Cen
trail United States and Black Sea
departments of Russia. In August
the harvester travels farther north
and the crop of Germany, England,
Belgium, Holland, Central Russia,
the northern states of this country
and of parts of Canada is gathered,
while September finds the cleaners
at work in Scotland, North Canada,
South Sweden and Norway and
North Central Russia. In October
and the frst days of November the
last of the grain is harvested in the
extreme northern fields of Russia
and Norway.-Globe Democrat.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-07-04
Moltke Believed In war.

We give a few extracts from
Moltke's speeches in the Reichstag
concerning war and peace:
Eternal peace, !, hs said, sis only
a dream, and not even q beautiful
dream" -
"War is one of Gods own insti-
tutions and = principle Of order in
this world. In war The noblest vir.
tues Of man are brought out; cour-
age and self-abnegation, fidelity to
duty, as we'll as love Of self-sacri-
fics. The soldier offers his life.
"Without war tho world would
decay and be lost ia materialispn. =
"Ins war everything should be
done to. bring the stru8els4e : ssvift
end. With thst Shject h mind It
r,ust - cnnaidanud that al means,
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Have You Learned to Walkp

Americans are bad walkers, says
writer in the New York World.
It is rare to 6nd an exception, even
in our Army. Among Europeans,
and the Aborigines of our own cen-
tinent, a noble mien is not uncom-
mon. I understand the causes Of
this ugly defect among our people,
and my present purpose is to call
attention to it and to point out the
remedy.
In the English and French books
on the military drill and physical
training whole chapters discuss tho
subject of walking. We are told
that this or that part of the foot
must touch the ground first-that
the angles must be so and 80, etc. /
will not say this advice is not right,
but l will say that very few have
been helped by it.
Look at a good walker. Shoulders,
head and hips drawn we'll back and
the chest thrown forward. What a
firm, vigorous tread ! Such walk
may easily be secured by carrying
a weight upon the head. An iron
crown has been devised for this pur-
pose. 1t consists of three crowns,
one within the other, each weighing
about nine pounds. One or all
three may be worn at time.
The water-carriers Of Southern
Europe, although belonging to the
lowest class, have a noble bearing.
Certain negroes in the South, who
"tote" burdens upon the head as q
business, can readily be pointed out
in a crowd. The effort required to
keep the burden directly over the
spine 80 develops the muscles of
the back and neck that in the alb
sence of the burden the head is
carried in a noble, erect attitude.
By carrying one of these crowns
upon the head half an hour two or
three times a day while walking in
the garden or through the halls of
the house, one may soon become
fine walker. One-tenth Of the time
occupied in learning few tunes on
the piano given to this exercise
would insure any girl a noble car
riage. The crown is not necessary.
Any weight which does not press
upon the very crown of the head,
but about it, will answer the pur-
pose eqallv we'll.
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cat always backs down. So you'll
either have to reverse that cat or
paint bushy tail over her back
and cut her head down little, and
shorten her legs, and make her over
generally, so that she will pass
muster as a squirrel"
The matter at issue was finally
compromised by the conversion Of
the cat or squirrel) into large
knot-hole in the side of the tree,
which left less room for hypercriti-
cal discussion.-Chicago Mail.
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Bits Of Information.

Key West has 4, 900 cigar makers.
Illinois leads in railway mileage.
Bohemia miners wages average
1882 year.
Australia produces a fourth of
the worlds wool.
In British India $4,000, 900 acres
are cultivated by irrigation.
The Mormon Temple at Salt Salt
Lake holds 10000 people.
The ordinary watch gives 49,.
IA, 600 ticks during year.
New York has a brewery that uses
100000 bushels of malt year.
Fully four times as many people
speak Chinese as speak the English
language.
During the year 1890 there were
1876 lynchings reported in the
United States.
Queensland, Australia, owes tho
largest national debt per capita
1888 46 q head.
A poor, down-trodden slave Of
farmer near Wetmore, Kansas, has
Just sold SC, 600 worth Of hogs.-Ex.
The word preface" used in the
beginning Of books, was originally
q word Of welcome to q meal, and
was equivalent to Much good may
it do you"
Seven countries Of the sise of
Belgiumscould be laid down within
the borders of Kansas and yet leave
400, GOO square acres for the coyotes
to howl in.
In proportion to its size COLORADO
Springs i probably the richestto!n
ia the United States. One sinete
street contains the residences Of Il
millionaires.
You think the light ofaday . you
ordinarily ses It il - light - light
Ecan ba, but light thlouh ~ hiek
telescope j. neafiyso q t1aee -
bright 20 that seSn YttD AalSo
|ryx 8. r. Bpllssia.
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italian L.aborers.

A riot took place at Chain o1
Rocks in Missouri on Sunday morn.
ing, during which number oi
Italians were driven from the camp
and their money and valuables con.
fiscated. The assailing party is
said to have been a gang Of Ameri-
can laborers, but the names as given
in one dispatch indicate that some
at least of the assailants were for
eigners. Whisky played promin-
ent part in the affair and the Malta
cry was used as means of excit-
ing the attacking party against the
Italians.
This will doubtless afford Premier
Rudini an excuse for another lee
ture on the defects of the American
Constitution, and he may again
demand that the United States Gov
ernment guarantee the conviction
and punishment of the rioters. 1t
is probable that when all the facts
are known the affair will sink in
Importance from the rank of pos
sible international case to that of a
mere drunken row, and that the
men who made the attack will be
dealt with by the local magistrates.
At the same time it cannot be
denied that such incidents as this
show growing and spreading an
tagonism in the United States to
alien labor. Just now, in conse-
quence of the New Orleans affair,
the hostility is directed chiefly
against Italians, but it is quite as
likely to be turned at any time
against the Hungarians or Poles or
Chinese or any other class of cheap
or servile foreign labor. To speak
plainly, the laboring class of the
United States is becoming aroused
to its condition, and beginning to
demand, not merely request, that
the American doctrine of protee-
ton be extended and made opera
tive for their direct and personal
benefit.
The demand is one that cannot
be ignored nor allowed to pass un.
needed. Every consideration Of
reason and of political economy
urges that country which protects
it's people against undue competi-
tion in the matter Of the products of
labor should extend the same pro-
lection to the labor itself. IT is illogi-
cal to impose a high tariff on foreign
manufactured products and allow
the foreign laborer to come here
unquestioned and unchallenged,
with his low standard of wages.
What is needed is an immigration
law which shall shut out foreign
labor, no matter whence it comes,
until such time, at least, as Amer
lean labor is fully occupied. So
long as there is an honest and in
dustrious American out Of work no
alien laborer should be permitted
to set his foot on our shores, least
of all the class which has been
flocking here continuously for the
past three or four years.-S. F.
Chronicle.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-07-04

The kEYs7oSE has long been scknow
edged to be the sole representative Of tie
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 Q
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.
ble guide for capital and informs ant 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, 1891-07-04
The Flat-Footed Man Is Square.

Scarpology, or the science OF tell
ing the character of q man by the
wear of the soles of his boots, has
been attentively studied by Swiss
doctor by the name of CALI. Speak
ing briefly, wear at the back Of tie
heels indicates conceit, pride and
vanity. Soles worn toward the toes
demonstrates doceit, and even crin1-
inality. while sele that shows an
equal amount of wesr upon every
part Of the surface denotes q frank,
upright and fearless character.
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Popping the Question.

Don't be too sudden about it.
Many a girl has said mo" when she
meant "yes," simply because the
lover didn't choose the right time
and pop the question gently.
Take dark night for it. Have
the blinds closed, the curtains down
and the lamp turned most out. Sit
near enough to her so you can hook
your little fingers into hers.
Wait until the conversation be-
gins to flag and then quietly remark !:
"Susie, l want to ask you some
thing"
She will 6dget about little and
probably reply:
"Yes?"
After a pause you can add:
"Susie, my actions must have
shown-that is, you must have seen
II mean you must have been aware
that"
Pause here for a while, but keep
your little finger firmly locked. She
may cough and try to turn the sub
ject off by asking you how you
liked the sermon, but she only does
it to encourage you. After pause
you can continue:
II was thinking as l was coming
up the street tonight that before /
went away l would ask you-that
is, l would broach the subject near
est MY mean l would know my"
Stop again and give her hand q
gentle squeeze. She may make a
move to get away or she may not.
In either case it augers we'll for you.
Wait five minutes and then go on.
1.-THE past year has been a very
happy one to me, but l hope that
future years will be still happier.
However, that depends entirely on
you. l am here tonight to know
that is to ask you'll am here to-
night to hear from your own lips
the one sweet"
Wait again. It isn't best to be
too rash about such things. Give
her plenty of time to recover her
composure, and then put your hand
on your heart and continue:
eyes, l thought as I was coming
here tonight how happy I'd been,
and said to myself that if l only
knew you would consent to be my
that is, l said if | only knew-if
I was only certain that my heart
had not deceived me, and you were
ready to share"
Hold on-there's no hurry about
it. Give the wind a chance to sob
and moan outside among the trees.
This will make her lonesome, and
call up all the love in her heart.
When she begins to cough and grow
restless you can 60 on.
Before l met you this world was
a desert to me. / didn't take any
pleasure in life and it didn't matter
whether the sun shone or not. But
what a change in one short year.
1t is for you to say whether my flu
ture shall be prairie of happiness
or one long and never-ending path
way of thistles. Speak, dearest
Susie, and say-and say that"
Give her five minutes more by
the clock and then add:
"That you-you will be-that is,
that you will-be mine p
She will heave sigh, look up at
the clock, and round the room, and
then as she slides her head over
your vest pocket she will whisper:
"Henry-I will."-Tid-Bits.
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Science Of the Guileless Farmer

"Nice eggs, ain t they ?" said a man
at Wood River station, the other day
as he picked mp a sample of ''hen
fruit" from a pail that a fellow-pas-
senger carried. "Yes," responded
the owner Of the eggs. "they're pref
ty good looking Blooded stock, y
he continued, -but as | only paid %
cents for them / guess they wouldn't
hatch" "Why, how's that7" said
an ignorant city man who stood
near. "Well, you see" replied the
man with the eggs, "if these eggs
were sold for Matching they would
fetch something over 81 q bakers
dozen, being of blooded stock, but
the supply being greater than the
demand they were sold for eating
purposes at the regular market rate
of 80 cents. The farmer, though,
to guard against their use for set
ting, has run a fine needle through
the butt end of each so as to just
pierce the inner skin, trick that
does away efectually with ali hopes
of Matching it" This little scheme
of the guileless farmer to keep up
the price of Matching eggs in season
was new to the city man, but his in
formant said it was apractice as old
as the hills.-Providence Journal.
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Growth Of the Hair Aftsr Death.

The body of E. N. Haskell, who
has been dead for over twenty years,
was recently removed from his grave
at North6eld, Mimi, it being pur-
posed to put the body in another
lot. When his body was exposed
it was found that he had q beard
over twenty-three inches long. His
wife said that before he died he bad
been shaven, aud al his hair must
have grown after burial.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-07-04

even tuose otherwise condemnable,
may be employed. We must direct
our attack against all means of de-
tense in the possession of the enemy
against his finances, his railways,
his provisions, and even against
his prestige. IN. Y. Herald.
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A Compromise in High Art.

The rich old farmer who refused
to accept a painting of a Biblical
subject on the ground that the artist
had represented Eve as tempting
Adam in the garden of Eden with a
Rhode Island greening, must have
had an artistic sense but little more
discriminating than that of a North
Side bank clerk, who recently re-
ceived a small painting from the
brush of his fancee, who dabbles in
art little for her own amusement.
The gift showed an outdoor scene
Ia lawn With a hammock swung
between two branching trees; girl
lying in the hammock, and pet
cat clinging to the trunk of one of
the trees, apparently about to leap
down into the hammock beside her
mistress.
The young man received the pres
ent with the most profuse thanks,
but at length he remarked very
earnestly: ats a perfect little gem,
my dear, and no mistake, but if you
don't mind I'd like to ask you a
question about it"
Delighted, I'm cure: what is it,
Tom?"
"And you promise not to be angry
with me for my foolishness In ask
ing it?"
why, certainly; how could l?'
"Well, then, Molly, would it be
possible for you TO metamorphose
that cat into . squirrel7"
What an ideal Don't you like
cats?"
"Oh, yes, indeed. That is why I
object to your taking such unwar-
ranted liberties with that feline.
aWhat do you mean?"
"Well, you see you have msde
your cat come down that tree head
foremost. A cat cant do that; 2
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4 BIBLICAL FoaeeRY.
It Has Puzzled Scholars for More
Than Five Hundred Years.

For the past 500 or 600 years the
following se-called "Genesis Fifty
one" has been puzzle to biblical
scholars, and to-day were it read
aloud in any mixed company it is
questionable whether it's fraudulent
nature would be discovered, so beau
tiful is the spirit and language of
the Old Testament initiated. Below
we give this unique fraud in full:
/. And it came to pass after these
things that Abraham sat in the door
of his tent at about the going down
of the sun.
2. And behold man, bowed with
age, came from the way of the will
derness, leaning on staff.
3. And Abraham arose and met
him and said unto him, Turn in, |
pray thee, and wash thy feet, and
tarry all night, and thou shall arise
early on the morrow and go thy
way.
4. But the man said Nay, for I
will abide under this tree.
5. And Abraham pressed him
greatly, so he turned and they went
into the tent; and Abraham broke
unleavened bread and they did eat.
6. And when Abraham saw that
the man blessed not God, he said
unto him: Wherefore dost thou not
worship the Most High God, creator
of heaven and earth?
Z. And the man answered and
said, l do not worship the God thou
speakest of, neither do call upon
his name, for I have made to myself
a god which abideth alway in my
house and provideth me with all
things.
s. And Abraham's anger was kim
died against that man for what he
had said, and he arose and drove
him forth with blows into the will
derness.
9. And at midnight God called
upon Abraham, saying, Abraham,
where is the stranger that came by
the way of thy tent at the going
down of the sun?
10. And Abraham answered and
said, Lord, he would not worship
thee, neither would he call upon
thy name, therefore l have driven
him out from before my face into
the wilderness.
II. And God said, Have / not
borne with him these hundred and
ninety and eight years, and nour-
ished him, and clothed him, not
withstanding he has rebelled against
me? Couldst thou not, thee thyself
being a sinner, bear with him one
night?
IL. And Abraham said: Let not
the anger of my Lord wax against
his servant, 10! l have sinned, for
give me, I pray of thee,
13. And Abraham arose and went
forth into the wilderness, and sought
diligently for the man until he had
found him, and returned with him
to the tent, and when he had enter
tanned him kindly he sent him away
on the morrow with many gifts.
ID. And God spake again unto
Abraham, saying, for this thy sin
against the stranger, thy seed shall
be afflicted 400 years in a strange
land.
Is. But, for thy repentance, will
l deliver them, and they shall come
forth with power and with gladness
of heart.
The author of this pseudo-biblical
curiosity is unknown. It has been
traced back over 900 years to Per-
sian poet, who simply says ''it was
related to me."-St. Louis Republic.
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J,H. RUNYAN.
PRACTICAL
SIGN PAINTER
Paper Hanging and Other Work
Done to Order.
SHOP: Opposite Baxter's Hotel.
Notice for Publication.
Land Office At HALEY, Idaho,
Nav s 1881

May 5. 1881. {
Noaee 10 hereby given that the following
named tettie1 has fled notice of his inteia-
.'.i Son TO make final proof in s1pport Of his
t,alm, and that said proof will be made be-
yse Ia the Register and Receiver at HALEY
i1udano, on June Is. 1891, viz: Abilah
HHuUsnlst tor the SW y Sec. II and W u NV
= Sec IA. Up. AN, RTE.
M. ne names the following witnesses TO
rrvse rnS, ms continuous residence upon, and
,,su,yat'on OF. said land, viz: H. NJ. Stew
n.y. nv '9hn Monks. Frank Mats, of Ketch-
Mai; Mn; Idaho; Louis Bourgeois, of HALEY,
W. T. RILEY, Register.
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The Use of Tears.

An immense quantity of fine dust
is always floating in the air, and
though this is impalpable to the
vision, it would soon obscure the
sight if allowed to remain in the
eyes. The continuous flow of mois-
ture from the iachrymal glands is
sufficient to keep the eyeballs clear
from this accumulation of dust, but
when any grit, insect or smoke gets
into the eyes it so affects the nerves
as to cause an extra how Of tears to
clear it away. Tears are thus in
voluntary, and may be caused by
.sny,pangsnt vapor, snch as arise
from eeids or the odor of onions.
The CHEF element in the compost
ton Of 2 tear is water, but with
: water is associated minute proper
lions Of salt, soda, phosphate It
Time, phosphate Of soda and mucous.