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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-08-20
Fare for Round Trip, $780,

Leave Fourth street wharf at 200 and 1880 a,
m and l., A15 and 6.45 y. m.
Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut street wharf,
at /. 80 and 1000 a. m. and LS0, 400 and 8 40
2. m.
All boats stop at Chester both ways.
Wilmington Steamboat Company sells
tickets and checks baggage from Wilmington
direct TO Atlantic City via the Rea1ing route.
Tickets good for ten days. The a. m. 1O.S0
a M. and l d. m. boats make close connec-
tons during week days. and the a. m. boat
on Sundays. Tickets 81 for the round trip.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-08-20

WARM weather often causes extreme
tired feeling and debility, and in the
weakened condition Of the system, dis
eases arising from impure blood are liable
to appear. To gain strength, to over
come disease. and to purify, vitalize and
enrich the blood, take Hoods Sarsapa-
rillR.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-08-20

WooL-"A man told Wigs the other
day to 60 bare headed to cure his bald
ness. he went on the water and bllstered
his head Van Pelt-"Did the hair come
outT Wool-"It did--out OF the other
fellows head IN. Y. HERALD.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-08-20

PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
Il ROAD ROYAL RoUTR' BETWEEN PHIL-
ADELPHIA AND ATLANTIC CRY. THE ONLY
JUNE 8. 1891
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1891-08-20
ITEMS or INTEREST

BoND-My dear fellow, don't believe
in this treating business How much
better it would be to invite friend in to
have a necktie or some article Of wearing
apparel. Gallon-All right, my boy
let's step in here and have a nightcap.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

WHEN the news of McKinley's
election in Ohio reached US the KEY
STONE designated him as a Doodle
governor, and now Mr.. Kirby Smith
of st. Louis-not General Kirby
Smith-confirms this by positively
asserting that one million of dollars
were expended to procure McKin-
ley's election, 5000 900 of which was
sent from New York. This money,
however, was not used to bride
voters, but was paid to prominent
democrats who could be indnced to
betray their party for price. Sums
ranging from 81 900 to SIC, 900 we're
paid to these men to carry their
precincts or districts for Mckinley.
In this way Mckinley was elected,
protection and "honest money" vim
dictated by popular verdict at the
polls, and republican party methods
and measures once more endorsed
by an intelligent public. What a
travesty- on popular government
such corrupting practices do make
81 o4r elections!
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

We publish a number Of af1idavits
this week relating to the peniten-
tiary scandal which our readers, on
comparing them with the testimony
given last week, will see present the
so-called glove contests of that in
stitution in the light of actual
bloody prize-fghts. Whether they
were. so or not, the public must
judge. Being unacquainted with
the parties who have testified we are
not prepared to say whether their
testimony is or is not reliable; but
it does look singular, from our
standpoint, that men publicly and
emphatically accused of wrong do
ing will investigate or pretend to
investigate such accusations and
then fail to make report of their
findings. Every one likes to be
vindicated, and it is difficult to be-
lieve our board of prison managers
are different from the rest of the
world in this respect. Why, then, is
a report withheld, except because a
report that could not be impeached
would not prove a vindication OF
their conduct?
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28
Mr.. Clagett's Campaign.

The Boise Statesman is belching broad
sides of abuse at Senator Clagett, which
indicates that there is some fear on the
part of Dubois henchmen that they have
not got the Senatorship aud the spells
The Statesman assumes an infallibility
that is refreshing. The republicans who
attended the Clagett banquet are also
scored, and no one is spared who does
not bow to the Statesman. The "whip-
ping in" process is we'll carried out, and
it is done so impudently that it must be
backed by such men as General Roberts,
Secretary Pinkham, Fred T. Dubois and
others.
The Statesman publishes the
above and credits it to the KEY
STONE; but we fail to find it or any
thing resembling it in the columns
of our files, which leads US to sur
mise that the massive editorial brain
Of the Statesman must have been
wool gathering" when the credit
was given. However, we can stand
it, as it expresses our sentiments
exactly, except that we do not re.
member that the Statesman has
been particularly abusive of Mr..
Clagett, and would not, therefore
assert that it has.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

THE Denver Silver Congress was
practically unanimous for free coin
age, there being but eight negative
votes out Of total of 489. There
is, however, little significance to be
attached to this vote, as the men
who met there were, for the most
part, induced to be present by their
friendship for silver coinage. New
ertheless it will not be without its
benefits. 1t will encourage silver
men to keep up the fight and while
strengthening their friends in Con-
gress may check the ardor and obsti-
macy of their enemies in the Senate.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

Rev. w. M. LANE in a recent lee
ture said: "Our government has
become the contention of the pol
itician and the prey of the spoils-
men, while the press, the most pow
erful factor in shaping public life,
is either throttled or driven by
money. Trade is restless in the
grasp of monopoly, and commerce
shackled by limitations which some
call protection. Our cities are be-
ing swollen by increasing multi
tudes, and the country is being
stripped of its hardy sons, because
the fields can no longer give sup
port, while splendor streams from
the palace and squallor crouches in
the home" If ministers dared to
tell the truth in the pulpit now and
then. as Jesus did, what different
world this might be; but even Mr.
Lane would shrink from saying
such a thing in the pulpit.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

THE announcement is made that
Sullivan and Slavin will fight for
$4,000, or more, and the champi-
onship of the world. A contest
between these noted giants of the
prize ring will be an event that will
excite UNUSUAL Interest in sporting
circles throughout the world. But
in this country and Great Britain it
would specially be exciting because
it would be regarded as an interna-
tional contest, and both national
pride and braggartism would be
appealed to and countless sums OF
money would be bet; the American
and Irish betting on Sullivan and
the English aud Australians on
Slayin. We may be prejudiced n
the matter, but being an American
will bet all our credit that Sullivan
wins the fight if it ever comes off,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

JoHN P. ST. JOHN, the New York
banker, who favors free coinage, is
reported by the Financial and Min
ing Record to have made an appeal
to the New York Chamber of Com
MERGE to appoint committee to
make research Of truth regarding
the alleged danger Of this country
being flooded with silver from the
old world in case we adopt free
coinage, that the peril if real may
be established by such showing
of facts and conditions as will con-
vince, and that if imaginary that
fact may be authoritatively made
known. To insure fairness and the
fullest possible inquiry, Mr.. St.
John proposes John ClafHin and
Orlando B. Potter, the one a lead
ing and prominent republican, and
the other an equally prominent and
pronounced democrat, as commit
teemen. Mr.. St. John thinks the
November elections imply q popular
sentiment in favor Of free silver
coinage, and it is evident from the
proposed committeeman that he
regards the question as having be-
come political, and as favored by
the democrats and opposed by the
republicans, as it really is. But
the plan proposed is highly practi-
cal and will be cheerfully acceeded
to by all who favor, as we'll as by
all who are honestly opposed to free
coinage. We are not, however, so
sanguine as Mr.. St. John seems to
be that Mr.. Harrison will sign sill
YER bill even with the most convinc.
ing statement of facts in support
of its justice and utility before him.
There are large numbers of men in
this country who do not desire
prosperity for the masses, and we
think Mr.. Harrison is one of them
They are part and parcel of the
corporations whom they are always
ready to serve; but they understand
that the prosperity of the masses
means their independence of the
masters, and hence the curtailment
of corporate power and revenues
and will not willingly promote any
scheme designed to better the con-
dition of their hewers of wood and
drawers of water.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

The only way to outgeneral the
great monopolies is to outmonopo-
lie them; competition is dead or
dying. The only question is who
shall own the combination, Wall
street or the people? When the
people compete, Jay Gould laughs.
When the people combine, Jay
Gould shivers. At the ballot box
is our only chance. It is combina-
ton at the ballot box or COMPETE
ton in a wild race to the poor house.
Bellamy.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

The St. Louis Globe Democrat,
which should be better informed,
has stumbled upon the fact that a
late General Land Office report
places the unoccupied State and
Government land in the Southern
states at 25,OOO,0OO acres, and
parades this as proof that the ''in-
tense partisan spirit and foolish
sectional prejudices of the Southern
people" have prevented immigra-
ton to that section. All Of this is
absurd, and is fully refuted by the
Republic which shows that accord
ing to the same report, California
has within her borders 28,973, 1888
acres of unoccupied government
land, including school land and
land unfit for tillage. But the Globe
Democrats figures are by far too
small, in our opinion. We think
there are more than 25, 600, 900 acres
of unoccupied land in Texas alone
land held by foreign syndicates
and noblemen whom the idiotic
laws of that state and of the United
States permit to hold land in this
country and reap the profits of such
holdings without becoming citizens.
residing in the country or paying
more than a nominal tax on the
land so held. In addition to this a
Chicago syndicate holds Is, GOO, 600
acres of land there that the state
was robbed of under ex- Governor
Roberts administration in connec.
ton with the building of state
house. And, too, there are millions
of acres in the state that has neither
timber nor water, and so cannot be
occupied until some means shall
have been devised to irrigate it ;
and the aggregate will certainly ex-
coed 25,OOO,OOO, or three times 25,-
100000 acres; but it would all BE-
occupied in ten days if irrigated.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

In the neighborhood of Mona,
Italy, the farmers whose crops we're
destroyed recently by a hailstorm,
have held meetings and demanded
that the government relieve them
from the payment of taxes for 1892
and 1898, alleging that their farms
are already mortgaged for all they
are worth. And so it goes. Every
where the homes of the poor are
covered by the mortgages of the
rich; but still they refuse to recog-
nize the folly and madness of the
law dispossessing people of their
natural and inalienable heritage-a
share of the earth from which all
sustenance and independence come.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28


property, without, as good citizens,
first calling upon the officers OF the
law to protect them.
They violate and override the law
whenever it COMFORTS with their
interests to do SO, and generally
demean themselves as freebooters
and pirates in the domain Of travel
and commerce. That roads so con-
Quoted will sooner or later come
under government control cannot
be doubted for it is inconceivable
that q people SO intelligent as the
Americans are admitted to be will
continue to tolerate abuses so glar-
ing, when to right them they have
but to take possession of their own.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

PETER COOPER is credited with
having said 'no goods purchased
abroad are cheap that take the place
of our own labor and our own raw
material" No goods purchased
abroad do take the place of our own
labor or raw material they simply
come in exchange for some excess
produced by our. laborers, and We
make the exchange because we are
benefited by so doing.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

THE Statesman thinks the Hman-
ifesto issued by the third party
cranks will do more to kill off that
movement than anything that has
vet occurred" The wish of the
Statesman is, perhaps, "father to its
thought" but we would be pleased
to see the manifesto.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

SOME people are worrying because
Governor Hill issued his, Thanks
giving proclamation in advance of
President Harrison's. Perhaps the
Governor having that barrel of
Scotch whisky in mind, despaired
of a proclamation from the White
HOnsn. '.s''A
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

SrAxFoRD's great sub-treasury
wedge has done its work. The AL.
lance is divided into two warning
factions, and the set of fools who
have sense enough to oppose the
sub-treasury scheme have no more
sense than to oppose government
ownership and control of railroads.
What noodles we all are, and yet
how wise in our own conceit!
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

UNCLE SANS liquor bill is now
estimated at 81 900, OOO, 900 a year,
and vet the old gentleman is sober
a mart of the time, or at least part
of him is sober part of the time.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

New SOUTH WALES is the richest
as it is the best governed country
in the world. The census returns
show the amount of private wealth
there to be 81, 815 per capita, an in
crease in ten years of $74O per cap
ita. Good government is essential
to the prosperity Of a people.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

AN exchange brings the glad It'd
inqs that one of the Astors-we
have forgotten which one-has at
last son to inherit his name and
possessions. If it be not imperti-
nent, we suggest that the youthful
autocrat be named Jack.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

"1'he entire Democratic press Of the State
seems disposed to treat The present State 6d-
ministration soith tdirness and courtesy'
1t seems to be the province Of the Hepao9'-
can press to deal in tlth on!y.-00pe7'0'
Norman B. Wiley.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

The Salt Lake Tribune is in
spasms because the proposed consti-
tuition of Arizona does not put any
disabilities upon Mormons. Nor
monophobia" describes the mental
condition of the Tribune, but he
should not demand that everybody
be afflicted the same way. The world
likes variety even in insanity.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28
NOTICE 10 MAIL SUBSCRIBERS,

The date printed ON tho wrapper Of each
paper denotes the time up to which tho
subscription has been paid.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-11-28

rates charged in New South Wales,
where railroads are under public
control and management. BY their
expressions and extortions they
have acquired and now possess
property to the value of over ten
billions of dollars, and this has
been accumulated in less than sixty
years. The rapidity Of their accu-
mutations, obeying the law of grav-
itation, will be augmented as their
possessions grow in immensely.
Their property is assessed at less
than Is per cent of it's value.
They refuse to pay the small sums
assessed against them.
They refuse to pay the interest
due the government on money en-
ployed in building the roads.
They shirk responsibility for dam
ages to persons, property and life,
whenever and wherever it is posi-
BILE for them to do 80.
They discriminate against firms
and communities, and levy black
mail on the inhabitants in all Sec
tions where q new line of road is
constructed.
They corrupt legislation and the
courts by bribery and other treas
enable means, making the law q
defense of rasoality and a snare to
honest citizens.
They employ thugs to commit
lmqrder in pretended defense Of their
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-28

Too many people fail 10 keep a proper
supply Of scissors in the household. Il Is
false economy 20 allow single pair % do
ali the work The workhasket should bs
furnished with long. slender shears for
general cutting. short butJonhole scissors
% 90 their own work. and pair % small
scissors for general Usa. There should bs
a special pair % scissors % clip papers. n
any Of the family keep a scrapbook. as
I nothing injuries Aceas1rs % quickly 50
using them 20 cut paper aad eloEli iHdls-
eriminatsly.
Ia The country yOu want scissors % Gus
flowers. There sh0ald always be pair %
scissors Ga che kitchen for trimming lamps
and for various other uses there Neither
scissors. knives nor any other steel instru-
ments should be heated pecause ln doing
40 you run the Fis.z Of taxing the ''tsmper''
out Of tins instrument, add n once cut lt
san never be restored
The facs that f5e temper j. gone is
shown by tae steel turning biBs. Al ez-
perienced cutter can saarpsn an instru-
ment which has iost its temper" b8t is
Will rot remain sharp fog any isuEts ~
time. and the process ~ Sharpening needs
10 be repeated indefinitely and freluguflr.
until it becomes bgs1eus91le. Sew York
Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-28
spectacles or Tongs.

They tell a good story of Chief Justice
Peters, of the supreme court of Maine
one of the brightest and wittiest orna-
ments of the bepch in that state or any
other.
While the judge vas still practicing
lawyer he had for a client a farmer
named Hanscom. who, though he was
well past middle age, had the notion not
uncommon among Maine farmers of his
age that he was as young as ever and
could hold his own in a moving field with
the best Of them.
One day the farmer came into The
judges Office 70 look at some papers
which had been drawn I'D for his sigma
ture, and as he picked up the first one
he began to a. aSt it IN the manner
sometimes spoken Of by these who use
glasses and mIslay them as ''telescopIng.
The judge noticed the action and, see
ing that the farmer was holding the
paper pretty well at arms length. re-
marked pleasantly:
"Your eyesight seems 70 be failing
little, MIR. Hanscom. "YOu viii have tc
get pair of speCtacles.
Not a biz Of II. gro7~'ed the old
farmer; mot a bit Cf'it 1.y sights as
good as it ever WAS. ish48 waift 5. ct
tacles' for a good many years vet.
''All right" sall tie JUDGE: "yonn
have to get pair OF tOngs then. DE
troit Free Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-28
The aihia 9ay gaae: aaaenesdau orng October e. 1891
OLD NICK.

stranger, this boss don't make much shcw,
But crow bait amt his name, ye know.
Not much ~ look at? That may be;
We don't keep him to look at-see?
He keeps hisself poor as a crow
A-frettin for his consort, Flo;
she died las year-like folks we've known,
He's mournin them that's dead an gone.
Ali, thar. you rascal bite. viii you?
An full of oats an bran mash tew.
Take care! he'll nip you! See his ears
Laid baek-whoa, Nick; It's naught he fears;
Drive right up to an engine-wait
All night untied-so be you're late
His price2 There. stranger. you're too quick;
There amt no price set on Old Nick.
1--WE call him Old Nick now. an when
He were a skittish youngster, then
We called him Old Nick too. Yer see,
He were chOckfull of deviltry
Then. When he felt like goin fast
Bang went the dashboard-fieIds flew past
The road slid by us-whiz went tn wheels,
But Old Nick got thar. neck and heels
"You'd like TO buy him, stranger? Try
Ter mount him once-w ho-a-a thar! hi hill
Stan still you rascal Gin ye bump?
Landed ye in a single jumpl
Stranger. thar boss is pretty slick,
An the money that can buy Old Nick
Amt yet been cOined-his pastur lot
Is in my heart-its greenest spot!'
Mrs. N. l.. Rayne in Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-28

English children are so much more
childish than ours" said an American
mother once. Il wonder why it is"
1t is undoubtedly because they are
kept in the nursery and do not come int
prominence at so early an age as ours do.
The other day in a hotel rOtunda stood a
round eyed darling with her short,
golden hair 1uffed around her winsome
face; her short WASTED. long shnted
frock added TO her picturesque appear
ance. Almost all the men passing by
stopped to speak to her. She was the
delighted recipient of nickels, cards and
bonbons, while she ccguetted with all
the airs of a society girl Ny heart
ached. for she was getting all the sweet,
downy freshness Of childhood rubbed of
so early.
Her father. standing near. encouraged
her and laughed at her naive questions
and replies. BY and by the white capped
nurse came on the scene and bore her
child away; and she, loath TO leave the
scene Of ker conquests. made her exit.
biting. kicking and scratching her nurse.
while the men laughed heartily at this
edifying spectacle.
There are some wise mothers who dis
courage and eudpavor to suppress this
precociry. bur they are Numerically few
IN number Il. i. CElttendaa IL House
wife.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-28
Ruskin the Engineer.

Very few people are aware that John
Ruskin, in addition to his brilliant literary
work, has on one occasion, at least, played
with remarkable success the part of a
hydraulic engineer: The inhabitants OF
Fixing, little village in Sussex, not far
from Brighton, had for a long time great
difficulty in obtaining an adequate supply
of drinking water. y billy gathering
ground was near, but nature seemed to have
intended the water for other localities.
All sorts Of eXpedients were adopted TO
arrest the mountain streams, but one after
another proved a failure. It happened
that Mr. Ruskin occasionally visited the
district, and the idea occurred to somebody
that he might be able TO assist the villagers
In their difficulty. The request was a
strange one. but Ruskini began TO think
what could be done, and in the end devised
a scheme which has given Fixing as much
water as it can ever hope 10 consume
Manchester Courier.