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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
An Almost FORGOTTEN War.

The "grasshopper war" was one
of the first Indian wars noted by
the whites after their arrival in this
country. 1t began shortly after the
settlement of Massachusetts, aud
took its curious name from the fact
that a child belonging to an Indian
tribe had caught grasshopper or
locust Of great size and beauty, and
was carrying it homo as prize,
when q boy of another tribe took it
from him. Of course there was COM
plant, and equally, Of course, the
quarrel Of the children was taken
up by their mothers, thence extend.
ing to their fathers, and the two
tribes were involved in . war which
lasted four or FIVE years, and all
about . grasshorper.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
WHAT THE FAIR COSTS.
Nearly Four Million Dollars Spent
Already.

The report of the Worlds Fair
directors to the Congressional in
vestigating committee is ready. The
report is interesting in many re-
spects. 1t shows that up to April
1st the receipts of the exposition
from all sources have been $5,128,-
770.67. The expenditures for the
same period were 50, 500, ,934.84, for
which 6381 vouchers were issued.
Since Auditor Ackerman took the
figures about 100000 more has
been paid out, making the total OF
disbursements about 81, 100000. Of
the entire receipts 81 500, 600 is from
the sale of city of Chicago bonds,
and the balance. So, ,551 ,O98.4O ie
from stock subscriptions, with the
exception of small sums classified
as miscellaneous receipts.
+ The disbursements Of the exposi-
ton are interesting as showing the
tremendous scope of the fair. The
single item Of postage stamps
reaches atotal of$2O,571.87. This,
of course, is one of the most insig-
niicant Of all the expenditures, but
it furnishes a scale by which the
enormity of the work may be meas
ured. For commissions of various
kinds e52,O72.55 has been paid.
Office clerks have already drawn
100000 and the officials of the
local board $136,62828. Foreign
agents have been paid $91 ,348.7
and an additional amount of $15,-
7O7.31 has been spent for foreign
agitation. The legal expenses are
down for $11, 1,43O.8O. The London
agency has cost $5,4O1.37 and ma
tional agitation $3,O87
The exposition takes a few news
papers to see what is being said
about the fair in other cities. These
have cost $5,211.72. The New York
agency is charged with $11, ,616.09.
Publications other than newspapers
have reduced the surplus by 81 1927, )
62. Already $31 ,699,77 has been
paid for rent of Offices. The print
ing and stationery charges already
reach $23, ,135. 81. Telephones have
cost $2,585.O1, and travelling ex-
penses $11, ,3O8.42.
In the expenses of the construc-
ton bureau it is thought, however,
that the great volume of the Worlds
Fair funds will flow. When Mr..
Ackerman's detailed report closed
So, 800, ,934.S4 had been expended,
and of this sum 1926, ,39O.46 was
paid out on Chief Burnham's orders.
Money has been scattered in Jack
son Park with princely hand.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
Rabbit Bitten Holly Whips.

"Show me a rabbit-bitten holly
whip" He was one of Boston's
Four Hundred and evidently knew
whereof he spoke. No one who
values his reputation as a "driver"
would venture to show ignorance
on so important subject, but the
general public may we'll ask "What
is a rabbit-bitten holly whipY In
the first instance it has been found
that for a long-handled whip such
as the English style of driving de- '
mands the wood Of the European
holly makes the toughest stick OBJ
tainable. Moreover, those plants
that have been gnawed by the mis-
chievous little rodents invariably
produce the best and most durable
stick. The injury to the bark stops
the growth of the tree and decreases
the amount of sap. AS secondary
consideration the handles of such
whips often show very peculiar and
intricate patterns made by the rob
bits teeth.-Chicago Mail.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
Tortured BY Bandits.

A dispatch from T Tombstone( AT.
to the New York Sun, under date of
March 81, says: "Dutch" Henry's
band of Mexican horse thieves
raided Henry Withers' ranch, on
the Garrita river, recently, driving
away all his stock. Withers started
after the band single handed and
succeeded in shooting three of them
from ambush before they discov-
cred that only one man was pursu-
ing them. They succeeded in cap
turing him as he was trying to get
away. Death was his sentence, but
shooting was too easy death.
Withers was taken out on the hot
sand beds and left to lie naked for
six hours, fully exposed to the suns
rays. This was not enough, and
he was then carried, still nude, to
bed of cactus bushes, where he
was laid on the sharp points. He
was then bound tightly to stake,
and large ant hill, which was near,
was torn open with sticks and he
wasleft to his fate. The insects
swarmed out and over Withers'
body, and in two hours he was dead
from their bites. The ants did not
leave him alone, however, until
every particle of flesh was eaten
from his bones.
A prisoner of the band was taken
where he could witness the whole
affair, and was afterward turned
loose and told to tell the people
that that would be the future pun.
ishment of all who tried to kill a
member of the band.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
The Nan Ghoala d Around.

Congressman John Allen told .
story the other night Of an election
eerer down in Mississippi who gran
diloquently referred to the old say
ing, 1.-THE Office should seek the
man, not the man the Office" A
few days aftervard the speaker Was
noticed electioneering in old-fash.
ioned style, with drinks, cigars. ete.
Raing called down and asked about
his assertion Of : few days before,
that "the Office should seek the
man. he replied: II still maintain
Ipy 5 position. The Office should In
deed seek the man, but, bY lod.
sehl the man ehopld - around
when tbs oflacs - locking lor hin Z
-WashinGton Post
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
People Who Lack Salt.

Salt does not enter into the food
Of the poor Venetians, They never
taste It, and the hospital for the
scrofulous children Of Lido is filled
BY those Who have not had this nec-
essary article in their food. Every
evening I have noticed : poorly
dressed woman, accompanied BY
two small children, = boy and girl,
90 TO point on the river and lean
over, the edge Of the wall and fl !
bo&tle With The salt water. Becom-
ing curious - to the use made Of il
/ approached her, with - apology,
for ths question, and asked What
she did With The ssa water, Turning
upon a ! swset, sad hae a yhieh
traces st beauty were still viaible,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
Kansas Philosophy.

Call any man what he is and it
makes him mad.
Don't cry over split milk. Rush
around and find the cat.
When a man attempts to freeze
you out, freeze right back.
A man finds his warmest welcome
at the place where he spends the
most money.
If you whip boy, he will hate
you; if you don't whip him, you
will hate him.
Some people imagine that the
world stands still until it has heard
their side of the story.
The bigger fool a stranger in town
is, the more money he usually has
on him to be robbed of.
An empty heart in woman is as
apt to furnish work for the devil as
empty hands in a man.
Some men put the brush in the
hands of their enemies, and then
complain that they are not as black
as they are painted.
It is unfortunate that people do
not have the same faculty for getting
out of trouble that they have for
getting out of work.
After the first baby has arrived in
family, man can't kiss his wife
without waiting for her to take lot
Of pins out of her mouth.
Men neglect little things every
day that cause them worry at night.
It is bad custom, but We don't
suppose there is any use saying
anything.
Find the cause Of each wrinkle
on a man'e face and you will find it
was put there by worrying over
something that worrying could not
help.
we admire the women more than
we do the men because it 10 the men
who rush into newspaper offices
with their grievances. The women,
more sensible, take their troubles to
the Lord.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09

State of Idaho, County of Altaras-ss.
10 n. J. LANE and j. 8. WHITroN. their
heirs. legal representatives or assigns I:
You are hereby notified that ! have ex-
pended one hundred dollars. in labor and
Improvements, upon the w YELLING.
TON lode, situated in Wood River min
ing district, Alturas county, Idaho. in order
70 hold said premises, under the provisions
o. section 1924, Revised Statutes of the
enlted States, being the amount required
20 hold the same for the year ending De-
eember 81, 1890; and it within ninety days
s!;er this notice by publication yon fail or
aelase TO contribute your proportion OF
such expenditure as co-owncrs your pro-
portion being $4,000. your interest in said
sAim Will become the property of the sub
Hsloer under section 1924 of said statutes
JOHN CAREY.
u Inc above amount can be paid to w. II.
!" "stt. at his office in HALEY, Idaho, who
Tor the same. John CAREY
First publication, Jan. q, 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
A Story OF Love in Italy.

In front of a dingy row of tene-
ment houses on President street,
between Columbia and Van Brunt
streets, Brooklyn, nearly half q hun
dred Italians-men, women and
dirty little children-stood last
night vociferously welcoming and
praising a tall, slender young man,
who stood laughing and bowling to
the crowd of his countryfolk but at
the same time keeping careful hold
of the young woman at his side.
The girl had evidently been in
this country only very short time,
for her holiday dress was almost an
exact copy Of that of the Neapoli-
tan flower girl on feast day. The
right side of her face is beautifulin
outline and charming in color: but
when she turned there could be seen
extending from her temple to her
chin q broad scar, whose edges,
drawn together, made line of hid
eous wrinkles. So near to the eye
ran the scar that the lower lid was
drawn down, giving an ugly leering
expression in awful contrast to the
beauty of the other cheek.
The story of the couple was this.
They had loved and wanted to mar
ry, but the girls father, a fisherman
near Naples, had promised her to
Francisco, a richer man. At last
in despair she begged her lover to
disfigure her face. He refused. The
next night, the night before her pro-
posed marriage-Giuseppine plead
ed again for her own Disagreement.
She hated her own beauty because
it stood between herself and her
own happiness. At last, ina wild
fit of desperation, Augustine seized
the knife, and with one broad sweep
of the blade gashed the lovely face
from temple to chin.
AS they suspected, Franco re-
fused to marry girl so disfgured,
but Augustine was tried, and SEN
fenced to three years in prison, and
his marriage seemed as far off as
before. All the time he was in pris-
on, Giuseppine worked and saved,
and when the three years had ex-
pired she met her lover at the prison
gate, and, putting all her little saw
ings in his hands, bade him 60 to
America and earn enough to send
for her. He refused, unless she
marry him before he left Naples,
and as they walked toward the city
they met wandering padre, who
made them man and wife.
After one short twenty-four hours
of married life, Augustine left Ma
pies on coasting vessel, and finally
made his way to this country, which
he reached about six months ago.
His countrymen heard his story
and found him work, and mean
while he saved every cent, until at
last he had enough to send for his
young wife. Her father refused to
let her leave, and locked her in their
little cottage, but the girl who would
sacrifice her beauty for her love,
laughed at the old jailer, and one
night stole out and away to friends
who helped her to find the way to
this country.-N. Y. Advertiser.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09

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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09

che replied thst this was the only
way .she had ofgiving her children
the taste Of salt which they required.
The tax levied upon this article by
the Government placed it entirely
beyond reach Of the poor. Is it
right, / ask. that 9 government
should take from its people an arti-
Gle necessary to healthP-Venice
Letter to Omaha Bee.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09

only people to get the benefit will
be the Canadian government, which
will be able to collect its $50 per
head from largely increased immi-
grafton
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
Foreign and Domestic Fruits
Kept constantly on hand.


And Smokers' Articles.
Give me trial sud will guarantee entire
satisfaction.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11
CHAPTER v.
r<.,w 1wewr.vS,r ~.-m


One summers day, fifteen years after
Ambrose Arlington's sudden death in
the lodging-house, couple of young
people, fair to look upon, sat on rustic
seat under O tall elm on the bank of a
lordly rivera young man and a girl
just blossoming into the maturity of
womanhood.
The maiden was fair as the creation
of a poets dream; the man stalwart,
strong and nobly featured, but though
you never would have guessed it, look
ing at his big, brown eyes, blind from
his childhood.
The river which flows at their feet is
the st. Clair, the deepest, broadest,
clearest stream in Michigan-I had
nearly said in the world.
Yonder thriving town is the new city
of Glastonbury, and the dusAy cloud.
which blurs the landscape ten miles
away, is the smoke from the chipneys
of the village of Havana.
The young folks sit in quiet converse,
evidently enjoying the delicious breeze,
which comes from the broad river to
fan their checks.
There approaches and passes them a
blackboard wagon, drawn by pair of
ponies which, poor beasts, though they
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11
SUN, CECIL COUNTY, MD. FRIDAY, MARCH IL 1899.

Wanda asked, her eyes moist with tears
Of sympathy.
"Not quite so bad as that. He man.
aged to say few words to me before
he died. My son, he said, Il am go
ing where the wicked cease from troub-
ling; but you will be left to. be a
shaft for their evil machinations. ?
cannot even put you on yots guard
against them. Trust implicitly in Bla-
don. It lies in my power to give you
great wealth and high station, but the
risk of acquisition would be ruinous
to your peace of mind, and I bequeath
you sufficient for all your needs-a hun
dred thousand dollars is deposited to
your credit in the First national bank
to New York Then he relapsed into a
state of coma, only reviving for a mo-
ment to whisper in my ear: IF ever
you meet Wanda, tell her that her Sc
cret lies buried with me. 1t may allay
her bitterness SD
"Wanda!" the girl cried. 'tHow
strange! Why, am Wanda"
s'But not the Wanda he meant. His
Wanda fancy was some cruel enemy,
perhaps the very woman whose pres
enee caused his death. Oh, if my poor
father could only have seen my Wan
da!p
"Do you think he would have loved
me, George?"
''Who could be with you and not love
You, child?"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11

umes OF smoke into the crisp morning
air fails to give him the accustomed
solace. There is as yet no sign of life
in the street. His gaze is fixed intently
on small house q couple of blocks
away, before which big. sign affixed
to q post announces that 1t is the habi-
tatian of Mrs. Evesham, milliner and
dreSSmaker."
At last the watcher is rewarded by the
sound of wheels and the creaking OF un-
creased axles, and he sees Mr., James
Dolman OF Havana make his appear
anee behind his two shaggy ponies and
drive straight to the garden-gate of the
widows cottage.
The wooden-faced farmer is not kept
long waiting. There is hum of feni-
nine voices, the door opens, and Wanda
Arlington comes forth, looking in her
white muslin dress and broad straw hat
SO fresh and pretty that even old Bla-
don's eyes soften with honest admira-
tion. She is accompanied by Mrs. EYe-
sham and Kate, the former not looking
much older than when we saw her fif-
teen years ago; the latter developed
into handsome young woman of four
and-twenty-indeed, hers is beauty
you do not meet with every day,
Though in all respects she is a contrast
to the girl around whose waist her arm
Is encircled, you cannot but confes hat
she has as great reason to be con-
sidered perfect type of her peculiar
style as Wanda Arlington herself, The
one, the violet the other, the rose.
The Sne, soft, sweet, modest, radiant,
like delicate flower with CLEAN of
sunshine On II; the other, dark, vigor-
GUS, Juno-like, as the rainbow-hued
plant nurtured by the passion-breathing
sun of the tropics.
Wanda kisses the dear ones good-by
and steps, lightly into the seat beside
Farmer Dolman, who, like most coun-
try yolSels, is subdued into silence in
the presence Of ladies, He can scarce
find words to fefuse Mrs. Evesham's
offAE Of refreshment. Then, amid
much waving of handlzerchiefs and
many last expressions of affection on
the part of the women folk. the
charioteer rasps the horses mouths
with vicious Jerk of the rein, utters
long-drawn-out ''Git a-u-p" and the
equipage moves away.
Not until it is quite out of sight, and
the widows door has been closed, does
William Bladon stir-then taking one
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11
CHAPTER VI.
BLADoN PLAYS MENTOR.


All the residential houses of Glaston-
y were of the same monotonous pat
tern, shaped as though the builders had
placed one big dry goods box endways
towards the street, and then added as
an afterthought another, at right angles
10 the rear, making T. Add to this a
elain porch, in some instances stoop,
md crown the whole with low, sloping
shingle-roof, paint the building white
with green shutters, and you have the
typical picture of Glastonbury home
stead. Of course, it was wooden city,
with not single brick edifce in it to
relieve the eye, except the courthouse,
and that was, if possible, more angular
and gauche than its humber neigh bors.
But, if the primitive architecture
shocks your educated eye, you cannot
but be charmed with the gardens, or
yards" as the natives call them, and
the orchards which surround them.
In one of the more ambitious of these
edifces, George Arundel and his faith
full friend and servitor, William Bladon,
have taken lodgings.
It is the latter, who in the early
dawn of morning comes forth in his
shirt sleeves to the sidewalk and peers
anxiously down the road. He is a
short. thick-set man, probably about
sixty years of age, with a clean-shaven
face and hair as white as snow. Evi-
IDENTIFY something has discomposed him,
for his countenance, which usually
wears kindly expression, Is clouded,
and even the short wooden pipe in his
mouth from which he puffs huge vol
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11
Magic Glass.

One of the most curious inventions Of
this inventive age is what is called plati.
nized glass. A piece Of glass is coated
with an exceedingly thin layer Of a
liquid charged with platinum, and is
then raised to a red heat. The platinum
becomes united to the glass in such way
as to form very odd kind of mirror.
The glass has not lost its transparency,
and yet if one places it against wall
and looks at it he sees his image as In an
ordinary looking glass. But when light
is allowed to come through the glass
from the other side, as when il is placed
in . window it appears perfectly trans.
parent like ordinary glass.
By constructing window Of plati.
nized glass Que could stand close behind
the panes, in an unilluminated room,
and behold clearly everything going on
outside, while passersby looking at the
window would behold only fine mirror
or set OF mirrors. in which their own fig.
ures would be reflected, while the person
inside remained invisible.
In France various tricks have becn con-
trived with the aid of this glass In one
person seeing what appears to be an or.
dinary mirror approaches it to look as
himself. A sudden change in tho
mechanism sends light through the glass
from the back, whereupon it instantly
becomes transparent, aud the startled
spectator finds himself confronted by
some grotesque figure which has been
hidden behind the magic glass What
wonders might not magician Of the
dark ages have wrought il he could have
had . piscaof plAtinized glasAl
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11

81 see," said the girl, obediently,
''the broad river stretching like lake
of liquid silver for miles and miles,
green as emerald where the shadow of
the island falls on it. There are white
caps on the waves, which glitter like
snow tossed in sunshine. A low wood
land lies on the other shore. dotted
with white cottages; a woman is hang
ing out clothes in front of one of the
little houses, while her children are
padding ir the water"
"And the man in the boat?"
HE is there yet, fishing. He has Just
hooked pickerel nearly yard long.
Now he has got it into the boat
81 see it allI' the young man cried
enthusiastically. 81 see it all, Wanda,
with your eyes!''
81 am glad to be so useful to you.
George" the girl replied, with look OF
ineffable tenderness.
''And, when you are gone, all will be
dark again. How selfshly happy :.
have been in your society"
'.Hush!'' she said. "You must no.
speak like this. You will have Kate
and"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11
Origin of the word Dunning.

During the reign of Henry VII there
lived in Lincoln, England. famous bail
i'll named Joe Dun Joseph was very
clever in the management of his business,
and SO dexterous in annoying those who
refused the payment of an account with
which he had been intrusted that to set
Dun on him, or ito Dun him, became
common advice to the owner of a bad
debt. To this parsonage we owe what to
not few people is the most disagreeable
word in the language. st. Louis Globe
Democrst.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11
We use Alcohol

pure alcohol to make WoLFF's ACME
BLAcKINa. Alcohol is good for leather;
it is good for the skin. Alcohol is the chief
ingredient Of Cologne, Florida Water, and
Bay Rum the we'll known face washes.
We think there is nothing too costly to use
in good leather preservative.
Acme Backing retails ut zoe.
and at that price sells readily. Many
people are SO accustomed to buying dress.
ing or blacking at SC. and 10c. bottle
that they cannot understand that black
ing can be cheap at zoe. Wewant to meet
them with cheapness if we can, and to &C.
complish this we offer reward of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-03-11
FOR DyspEpsTA

Indigestion. and Stomach disorders. take
BROWNS IRON BITTERs.
All dealers keep IT, 81 per bottle. Genuine has
trademark and crossed red lines on wrapper.