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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21
| Statement from Mrs. Fremont.

In the Century for March Mrs.
Fremont gives the following ac-
count of how she baked an official
attempt to delay General Fremont's
second expedition to the West:
"In the month of March, 1S43, l
accompanied Mr.. Fremont to St.
Louis, where the second expedition
was fitted out; that through, he left
for the frontier, where the men and
animals were gathered. Following
out my duty of Secretary, I was to
open the mail and forward to the
camp at Kaw Landing, now Kansas
City, all that in my Judgment re-
quired Mr.. Fremont's attention.
One day there came for him an Of
fetal letter from his Colonel, the
Chief of the Typographical Bupeau !;
it was an order recalling him to
Washington, whittier he was direct
ed to return and explain why he
armed his party with a howitzer;
saying that it was scientific, not
a military expedition, and should
not have been so armed. I saw
at once that this would make
delays which would involve the
overthrow of great plans, and l felt
there was hidden hand at work.
Fortunately my father was absent
from St. Louis, and / could act on
my instinct. Without telling any
one of the order | put it away and
hurried off a messenger to Mr.. FIRE.
mont-one of his men, Basil La
jeunesse, who was to join him with
the last things. | feared duplicate
letter might have been sent on to
the frontier; but the river mail was
very irregular and slow, and l
charged Basil to make all haste, for
much depended on that letter. |
wrote Mr. Fremont that he must
not ask why, but must start at once,
ready or not ready. The animals
could rest and fatten at Bent's Fort,
Only CO. There was a reason, but
he could not know it; my father
would take care of everything. And
as we acted together unquestion-
ingly, he did go immediately.
Not until after | received the
good-by letter did | write in answer
to his Colonel who had sent the or
der Of recall. Then / wrote him
exactly what | had done; that l
had not sent forward the order be-
cause it was given on insufficient
knowledge, and to obey it would
break up the expedition; that the
journeys to and from Washington,
with indefinite delays there, would
lose to the animals the best season
for grass and throw them, underfed,
into the mountains in winter; that
the country of the Blackfeet and
other fierce tribes had to be crossed,
and that Indians knew nothing of
the rights Of science, but fought all
whites that these tribes were in
number and the party not fifty men,
therefore the howitzer was necessa-
ry; that as | knew military order
must be obeyed, | had not let it be
known to any one, but had hurried
off the party.
"When my father returned he en-
tirely approved of my wrong-doing,
and wrote to the Secretary of War
that he would be responsible for
my act, and that he would call for
a court martial on the point charged
against Mr.. Fremont. But there
was never any further question Of
the wisdom of his arming the party
sufficiently
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21

the whole town shall indorse. Make
your rate of interest reasonable
one. Treat every faro bank alike,
and show up in one saloon as often
as another. By paying attention to
the customs and characteristics of
our people you will do a rushing
business here and be elected to the
legislature. The other road leads
to certain failure and midnight
Departure Kicker.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21
Whv He Tells White Lies.

A hospital nurse oman confesses
thus: q am asked many times a
day by sick people questions that |
must not answer truthfully. For
instance one will inquire How do
| Look? lis my face much wasted?'
Am / very feverish? Am | very
sick?' OF eourseI have to say all |
can to encourage the patient, telling
him sometimes that heis doing very
we'll or.looks much improved, when
he is, in fact, very near death"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21
Lutheran Observer.

Now newspaper, in one aspect,
is something like hotel table. 1t
presents to it's readers literary vi
ands and views from many different
writer's on many different subjects,
to suit many different persons of
many different tastes. There is
something for old and young; for
ministers and laymen, for parents
and children, for the poetic and the
prosaic, for the practical and devo-
tional; and in short, for "all sorts
and conditions of men'-and wo-
men, too. If now, one of these
classes of persons objected to arti-
cles suited for any of theother class
es, and rejects q -newspaperon that
account, he is just assunreasonsblo
in this, as if he refused 10 take his
dinner at hotel table because he
dislked the articles of feod which
others enjoy.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21
Linseed Oil for Chilblains.

Mr.. Al. Arnold of Gibsonville,
Idaho. lin a letter to the Press, gives
the following from his experience
in curing cliilblains: Take boiled
linseed oil; warm the foot before a
fire, then rub in the-eil thoroughly.
The pains will soon cease and If
Ter eyered in the trouble will soon
disappear.-Scientifc Press.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21

But the boy never waited to see
whether his head would come off or
not, and no one ever succeeded in
getting him to 60 near Governor
Nichols again. He said he was
the worst "hoodoo" that he ever
saw.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21

The kErsroxE has long been acknow
edged to be the sole representative of the
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 leay-
ing nothing undonc to present its readers =
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, as aninvaiua-
BILE guide for capital and i1,forrlantto the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it. and let your 'frienas
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21
The Effect Of Sunlight.

A man who has been annoyed for
years by the fact that one side of
his mustache grows about twice as
fast as the other side claims to have
found an explanation in the circum-
stance that he sits all day at his
desk with one side of his face turned
to a window, the light from which
stimulates the growth of the hair on
that side.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21
Tattoo Marks Cannot be Removed.

It has often been claimed that
tattoo marks may be removed by
pricking over them goats milk.
This is mistaken idea. Chemists
and others have for years expert
mented with various preparations
in the hope of discovering some
agent to wholly remove India-ink
marks from the human skin. Moth
ing, however, has as yet been found
that will remove portion even of
the Objectionable marks, unless,
possibly, the attempt be made i'm
mediately following the tattooing
process. At Mount Washington
University Hospital, Baltimore, an
experiment was some years ago
made in presence of the writer upon
the forearm of a noted character Of
that city who died there. Before
his death the man granted permis-
sion to the students of the univer-
sity to experiment as they saw fit
with his dead body. One of these
students, curious to learn every
thing possible connected with the
practice of tattooing, cut from the
dead mans arm strip of skin upon
which a coat-of-arms appeared.
Beneath the skin tile design re-
NAMED visible. By degrees the
flesh was removed, the design in
India-ink still remaining in sight
until finally the bone was reached.
After a thorough sponging for the
purpose of removing the blood and
pieces of flesh remaining, it was
found that the representation still
appeared. After cutting away a
small section of the bone, the In
dia-ink mark was found to have not
penetrated beyond.-Boston Bull
letin.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21

The excess of appropriations of
the 51st over the 50th Congress was
$187, ,3O6, $40. If the republican
theory that taxation enriches peo-
ple is correct, the Americans viii
soon be rich to superAuity.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21

VJnn YEAR, lund,u,k. .o h,,.A,
N SyIIvIee eneh any iairy nteesn person OF either
VuvyIyN2rs Who can read snd write, aud who
TSVV W s'ssr Instruction, will work indussrjousIv
nthsirusn nov TO earn Three Thousand DoIiars a
situation nr ergver they liycI will lao furnish
non-! at which yo,I "a rn that smouns
desir. l, successful above Easily and quickly
, sre.dy tsus, ono work from district or county
.s = sho .rs nt froNlsd With employ ment isfre
= y, ALLEE' Tss''cuisrs FR EE. Addres. ct once
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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21

y t.AtS at steS.c CURE cI FOR PILES, ON SALE
eaho., FSdro F,,II l Bros. drug store Price 81
0A1 directions on each box.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21
The Valley OF Death in Java.

Lieutenant Leon Bancroft of the
English Army in India writes I
visited the Valley of Death when
on the Island of Java three months
ago. The place is called the Valley
of Death on account of the deadly
fumes there. But the natives cannot
account for the poisonous odors,
nor has their presence ever been ex-
planned. The deadly place is about
thirtv-fve feet below the surround
ing ground, looks like dry bed of
stream, and is about one mile in
circumference. As | approached
I the place / noticed a sutfocating
smell, and was attacked with nausea
and dizziness. A belt of this fetid
atmosphere surrounds the valley.
l passed through it, and in purer
air was permitted to view the awful
spectacle, for it was awful. Before
me | saw scattered all over the bar
rem floor of the valley skeletons of
men, wild hogs, deer and all kinds
of birds and small animals. The
entire bed of the valley is one solid
rock, and I could not discover a hole
or crevice in any place from where
the poisonous fumes came. The
hills surrounding this desolate strip
are covered with vegetation, and al
though the neighboring mountains
are volcanic they do not emit sui
phurous odors, or present any indi-
cation of a recent eruption. There
is no apparent cause for the strip
of deadly fumes surrounding the
valley. After | passed through it |
became bolder and approached
the edge of the deadly place. |
was was very anxious to reach the
bottom of the valley, if possible,
but was afraid to make the attempt,
as | had been warned to give the
place a wide berth. l determined,
however, to see what the fumes
smelled like, and started to descend.
My pet Irish terrier was with me,
ana as soon as ne saw me step over
the side of the bank he rushed down
ahead of me. | endeavored to call
him back, but was too late. AS soon
as the little animal reached the
rocky bed below he fell over on his
side. He continued to breathe for
ten minutes. | don't believe | was
ever nearer deaths door than | was
at that time. Four or five times /
was tempted to rush down and res
cue him, but | subsequently learned
that such move on my part would
have been certain death. For ten
minutes / suffered the agony of
seeing my dog die and then turned
and fed from the spot"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-21

y.s Bakery is supplied with fine
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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25
The Gospel of Good Roads. y

Mr. Isaac b. Potter. chairman Of the
New York State Road improvement as
ISOLATION. begs the pardon of the rural
community for saying that the farmer
is not the only honest man in the world
Then he proceeds to give his farmer fell
low citizens such sermon on good
roads as they never got before. and one
that will remind them of an exhortation
about the road to heaven
Mr.. Potters little pamphlet is pub
lished by the New York State Road I'm
provemenfassociation It is to be hoped
it will be distributed throughout the
length and breadth of this land of poor
roads The style is that of familiar.
forceful talk. Farmers are first of all
shown how much they lose in pocket
year by year through our wretched road
system. In France the government
superintends the public highways and
spends $1S,000,000 a year to keep them
up, and the territory is only four times
as large as the state of New York But
In France, on the smooth. hard roads,
one horse can trot along merrily ana
drag after him a weight of ton and
third, while in the United States two
horses frequently break down under
scant half ton load. The extra wagon
repair extra horses the agriculturlst
must keep extra vexation delay and loss
will amount To six times the cost OF
good road every year
Mr. Potter appeals TO the American
desire for gam directly at every point.
He shows now good roads bring up the
value OF land every time. Near Orange
N. D., the land has Increased in value
from 81 200 an acre to 81 900, simply be-
cause of new roads, In Union county,
N. j., few years ago the people walked
up and put Ill sixty miles of Teltoru
road. From $50 and $50 an acre farm
lands at once gave great jump upward
always the Telford road. with its firm
foundation of large solid stones at the
bottom of all
Greatly destructive to road Is Inc
narrow tire under heavy weight, ana
in Bavaria the width OF the wagon TIRE
is regulated by law For instance. two
wheel wagon for two horses must have
s-inch tire, while a two wheel vehicie
drawn by three or four horses must nave
tire six inches wide The four wneei
wagon drawn bv three or four horses
must have tire four inches wloe
Water" says the writer, has no place
in any road, good or bad. 1t is moie
hurtful than any other agent OF dest'n0
ton
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25
A Great Day In China.

Within q short time the great day for
state worship will again come in China
AT the coming of the winter solstice the
whole nation is supposed to pray, at least
in the person of the emperor. This great
worship takes place at night. The EN-
peror squats on the bottom of great
elephant car, and drawn by the white
elephant which the king Of Siam sent
him, is escorted by 1000 grandees, princes
and attendants, while bands of music
play along the way to the great temple.
He first goes into the palace of fasting.
There he lneditates before copper statue
representing priest with his mouth COW
cred by his fingers, indicating silence.
Upon the altar of heaven he should
sacrifice burnt animals-calves, hares,
sheep and pigs. How this worship will
take place, now that the altar of heaven
is burned down, do not know; but the
occasion may call out some expressions
of opinion from different parts of the
empire which will be more or less dan
gerous. Frank G. Carpenter in National
Tribune
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25

A farmer named Morrand found a
woman lying underneath tree near his
farm in st. jerome parish. She was
alive, bat almost skeleton, unable to
speak and insane. She was Matilda
Graph, a domestic. Over month ago
she left house to go to church, but had
never been heard of again and was be-
iiiicvca te be dead. She had laid down
under tree where she and her dead hus-
band had often sat together. She fell
asleep and slept for two days, and when
she awoke she had lost her reason. She
wandered about the woods for thirty
five days, and never tasted any food.
She obtained water from a brook. Since
she has been found she has been rational
at times and has told the above remark
able story. She is in very weak state.
Cor. Minneapolis Tribune.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25
An EcIipse Dinner.

II have been to an eclipse dinner"
said young woman. There were any
number of them, you know, of course
with the part of Hamlet left out. At the
one at which l assisted three gilt boys
at each end and in the center of the
table held aloft, respectively, in flower
figures, the dates of the last, the present
and the next eclipse, garlands of flowers
passing from one to the other. AT every
corner lay pretty sketch, showing
earth, moon and sun in space and in the
proper positions to produce the eclipse.
"The ices were served in gilt stars.
The host, who is an enthusiast in as
tronomy, had a small telescope mounted
on the roof for use had the night been
clear, and, to be frank, / had crammed
all the afternoon to be equal to the occa-
sion. 1t was loves labor lost, however,
for we did not even go up to the roof,
messengers being dispatched from time
to time to return with the invariable
cloudy report. But it was great fun,
and everybody laughed when lobster
outlets a Ia tosalite were served. New
York Times.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25

In the year 1893, when foreigners
from all the nations come to take part in
the Worlds fair and view the great
naval parade, they viii open their eyes
at sight of one of our ships, that recently
launched, the armored cruiser New
York, $3.50 tons, coal capacity 1900
miles, twin screws, propelled by four
vertical, inverted, direct acting, triple
expansion engines, each having 1880
horse power. The New York is $50 feet
long at the water line. She will carry a
complement of AIS officers and men.
She will have three complete decks and
an additional protective deck. Some
thing of her fighting capacity may be
learned from the fact that she is to carry
thirty cannon, large and small, and six
torpedo tubes The armament includes
twenty rapid firing guns and four Cat
lings. The New York is protected by a
partial belt of armor. placed amidships,
and by a complete belt Of water exclud-
ing material.
The new ship Is built both for cruls-
ing and fighting. Her heavy barbettes
and the almoyt impenetrable armor that
constitutes her gun shields will make her
a formidable enemy for the best OF Eu-
ropean ships to grapple. The New York
is the largest, finest cruiser yet turned
out of an American shipyard, the most
magnificent vessel Of our new navy, and
we point with pride to her. At least we
shall do so when she is all finished and
gets her machinery and armament. That
will take year yet. That is to say if
emergency arises, it can be completed in
four months. But if the hired laborers
of Uncle Sam spin out the work as they
usually do in order to get the most out
of it and make it last as long as possible,
then it will require year and half.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25

A strange relationship exists in the
family of q couple of Englishmen in this
state. Some ten years ago two brothers
named Beers came to this country from
England and settled on small farm in
Menefee county. Things prospered with
them, and soon one Of the brothers,
Philip, becoming tired of lonely life on
the farm, wooed and won Miss Lizzie
johnson, young rural beauty. They
were married and lived happily together
nearly eight years. Something, how
ever, disturbed the harmony of their
married life, for last summer Philip APP
piled for and obtained divorce. Life
seemed to have lost all charms for him.
In the mean time the other brother,
Louis, also tired Of the unlucky lot OF
the lone bachelor, began to cast about
him for helpmate, and must have dis
covered in his brothers late wife the
sum Of all his future happiness, for the
little village near which the brothers re-
sided was one day suddenly electrified 10
hear that Louis and the grass widow
had been made one. The news came TO
Philip, who simply smiled and replied,
"Never mind; my inning comes next"
Little attention was paid to the re-
mark, and certainly no one thought of
the strange denouement that would fol-
low. The ordinary routine life of the
mountain village went smoothly on I'm
til, only day or so ago, the villa9er-
were astonished to hear that Philii'
Beers and Mrs. johnson, his ex-wife's
mother and bis brothers mother-in-law,
had been quietly married. Then there
was CONSERVATION in the family Of Mrs
Louis Beers.
The neighbors and friends OF the
several parties are now busily engaged
trying to figure out the relationship Of
the several parties to each others rela-
tives. = Kentucky Cor. Philadelphia
Times.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25

1t will cause sort of sickly smile to
rise to the countenance of those who re-
member how the English sparrow was
fostered and nursed into being in this
country fifteen years ago to read now
how the young Illinois boy slaugh-
tiers him by the thousand and collects "a
bounty on the head of every individual
of the dirty, brown coated tribe. Fiji
teen years ago we in America could not
get enough of the, English sparrow. We
feared this climate would be too inclem-
ent for him. Sympathetic ladies took
the little birds in by the fire and nursed
them back to life when they were half
frozen. Every means was taken to prop
agate the bird, for we thought it would
free us from tree caterpillars. And now
we find the little beast is no good against
caterpillars, but he drives out the other
birds that do eat the tree worms, and
not only that, but he devours hundreds
of bushels of ripe grain every summer
Dec. 1 was Sparrow Day in Illinois
the day when the state bounty ON spar
row heads went into operation-and a
grand day 1t was to the small boy Of the
Sucker State.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25
His Intentions Misunderstood.

There is certain small boy living in
the vicinity of the armory who has con-
cluded that the finding of pocketbook
is misfortune. He picked up one the
other day on the street containing about
ten dollars Being on his way to the
bakers he generously paid score of
$1.25 that was chung up" there against
the family, and then meandered down
town to invest another dollar in a Buff
falo Bill gun and ammunition. But
when he reached home maternal per-
suasion 80 quickened his conscience that
he again started out in sorrowful quest
for the owner of the money, who was
soon discovered.
And it is further alleged that this
owner would not abate anything from
the full amount lost and that the man
who sold the little fellow the gun refused
to take it back after all the circum-
stances had been explained, SO that even
to this day the mention of that pocket
book causes a shadow to creep over the
countenance of that boy.-Springfeld
(Mass.) Republican.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25

Gorham met with I; serious loss over
twenty years ago. About 1871 it was
discovered that a book containing the
earliest town records, from its incorpora-
ton in 1864 to 1916, was missing. The
town offered a reward for its return and
many individuals joined ii the search,
but hope of finding these records was
abandoned long ago. Last week, how
ever, the express brought from Boston a
package containing three books in excel
lent preservation, without any explana-
ton. One of them was the early rec
ords of Gorhapl. The other two books
contained the marriages, births and
deaths of the inhabitants of the town
from 1854 to 1892. Lewiston Journal.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-12-25
To Exhibit Aborigines.

Anthropologists all over the world are
said to be aroused by the proposition of
Professor Putnam, of Harvard, to gather
at the Worlds fair in Chicago living rep
resentatives of every race of aborig-
ines to be found on the American con-
tinent, in their own houses and costumes.
Should the proposal be carried out, stu
dents of man from all over the world
will flock to America for the occasion
and seize eagerly this only opportunity
ever offered. The cave jewellers, whose
mode of life Walt McDougall treats with
much historical correctness in fiction,
will then be either demonstrated as ac-
tually existing or proved to have died
out.-NeW York World.