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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-06

A beautiful illstration of the be-
lief that men are not naturally bad,
common to most social reformers,
has been offered by the convicts in
the Massachusetts state prison. A
project is on foot in Boston for the
erection of 4 monument to John
Boyle o Reilly, who before his death
erected q monument to himself in
the heart of every man and woman
that read his writings. O'Reilly's
love for his race penetrated the thick
walls of the Charlestown prison,
and there, among outlaws undergo
ing punishment for crimes against
society, in a place where the bad in
human nature if human nature be
bad, should find the lowest express
sion, it struck responsive chords.
One of the convicts asked leave to
interest his fellows in the proposed
movement. This being granted, he
interviewed every prisoner, and &C.
cured substantial contribution to
the monument fund. Perhaps no
other contribution to that fund will
have been 80 hardly earned or in
volved so great q sacrifice. The
prisoners have q fixed allowance Of
tobacco. To forego this requires
the sharpest self-denial; but they
did forego it, some for week and
some for two, selling their tobacco
for the benefit of the fund. More
than that, they worked overtime to
obtain further money With which t.
swell the sum. It 10 doubtful If in
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-06

The KE1sroNE 10 the sole representative
OF the Great Upper Wood River. Sawtooah
and smoky mining regions, and, located
= 1t Il in the very heart Of the most prom.
lnng mining country on the face of the
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis Of all
mining news and developments, q well a.
matters OF local importance in and about
Ketchum, it is an invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler of eyerv
craft and position. Subscribe for it, read
it, and let your friends read it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-06

is in the stable, and 60 riding or
driving; that guns and dogs may
be taken into the enormous forests,
and there can be hunting and fish
ing galore. It would be no trouble
to Mr.. Elkins to take half of Con-
gress and the Presidents cabinet up
into his beautiful home and enter
tain them royalty upon the slight
est notice.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-06
A visoount In the Ranks.

Captain w. H. Beck, in charge oi
the United States recruiting Office q,
Boltimore, was seated at his desk,
when q strapping young fellow in
fashionable attire walked in and
said he wished to enlist in the army.
He spoke fairly good English,
with . foreign accent. The captain,
thinking tho applicant might be
some young blood on lark, told
him that before he could be accepted
he would have to be recommended.
"Give me your name and ad-
Dress" said the officer, "and if the
reference is satisfactory We will be
glad to accept you"
"Very good" said the applicant
and az the captain looked up in
quiringly, pen in hand, the young
man dictated. "Viscount George de
Beughn, Brussels, Belgium; refer
ence, the Belgian minister at Wash
ington."
The captain looked incredulous al
he took it down, and the applicant
noticing the expression, remarked
"You will find l am all right; dc
not sail under false colors."
Sure enough, in reply to the let
ter came an official recommends
ton of the viscount's application
The minister wrote in the most
glowing terms of the young man
and wound up by saying that ht
would prove model soldier. The
viscount was thereupon accepted
He said he was "a years of age. Hi
complexion is fair and he is com
pactly built. When asked wha
branch Of the service he preferred
he selected the cavalry. After tn
physicians examination he donnet
q private's uniform and was placec
in charge of Sergeant Blunt. Th'
pair left for Jefferson barrack'a q
near st. Louis.
The yisconnt says his object il
joining the army is to obtain = prac
tical knowledge Of military life ant
to obtain promotion to be commits
stoned Observation-Disclosures Sta,
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MI1Ro.elYeERine.
Peculiar Effects Of the Explosive Upon
the Men Who Handle Il.

"A nitro-glycerine headache will
make man about 40 uncomfortable
under his hat as anything know
Of" said an oil producer from Brad
ford, Pa, to group of men who
were discussing the sensational at
tempt upon Russell Sage's life. "A
single Whit from a can of the ex-
plosive will make man imagine
he is just getting over the effects of
a night with the boys. Nitro-gly-
cerine, as you may know, ie utilized
very extensively in the oil country
for shooting oil wells. Hundreds of
tons Of the explosive are used every
year, and the mon who manufac-
ture it and torpedo wells would
make a small army if they were all
turned loose together. The busi-
ness they follow, too, is about as
dangerous ss the military business
in war time, for not year passes
that dozen or more shooters, as
men who torpedo the wells are called
are not blown up. Nitro-glycerine
goes off at very slight shock or
at contact with fire, and in the oil
country q man who handles glycer-
inc islooked upon as an unfortunate
being with one foot in the grave.
The chances are ten to one that if
he sticks to the business long enough
he will be blown up.
"a nitro-glycerine headache is
caused by the smell of the nitric
and sulphuric acids which are used
in making the explosive. Sweet
glycerine oil, as every one knows,
is very harmless liquid, but when
subjected to the action of the acids
named the resulting milk-like fluid
is the most deadly explosive agent
known. Men who make nitro-gly-
cerine are at first subject to these
terrible headaches, but after a few
days in the factory they become &C.
climated to the smell, if such an
expression be permissible. But if
they knock off work for q day or
two they are compelled to undergo
the acclimating experience again.
"a single drop of nitro-glycerine
exploded upon an anvil with a
sledge hammer would probably
blow the hammer thirty feet in the
air. l knew of a blacksmith who
was repairing a nitro-glycerine wag-
on in the oil country one day when
there was a loud explosion and the
wagon was literally taken all apart
and scattered about his shop. A
few drops of glycerine had leaked
from the cans and lodged in the
framework of the wagon. Strange
to relate the blacksmith escaped
injury.
"One day, in the Titusville oil
field, nitro-glycerine manufactur-
er was standing in front of a hotel,
absent-mindedly kicking the flag
stone walk, when there was a report
about as loud as the snap OF q cap,
the man few up in the air about a
foot and let out a yell that was
heard about q block away. When
he got back on terra firma again and
looked at his feet his shoe was torn
all to pieces. In working about his
glycerine mandatory he had evi-
IDENTIFY saturated his shoe with a
few drops of the explosive, which
were set off by the stamping of his
foot."-Chicago Herald.
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Germany Il Not 4 Woman's Country

"Germany is q mans country"
said a titled German lady. "Men
will die for their sweethearts, but
their wives must live for them. If
you marry = poor man he expects
you to blacken his boots. If you
marry q rich man he expects you to
do the same mentally. A German
girl is we'll educated in books, needle
work and housekeeping. She seems
bright enough until she settles down
into 'hausemutter,' with few ideas
beyound her kitchen and nursery,
and no conversation, except the in
iniquity of her servants and the
extravagance of her neighbors. The
result is that the women are inferior
to the men, and tho men argument
ative, self-opinionated and egotisti-
cal. And they all believe, from the
Kaiser down, that women were cre-
ated simply to cater to their faneies
and bring more men into the world
for other women to wait upon. Our
actors are always better than our
actresses, our teEors and barytones
outshine our sopranos and contral-
tos, even our men ballet dancers are
more agile than their short-shirted
colleagues, and in the great land
of scholars, and philosophers, and
writer's, there are fewer women OF
note in educational or literary
standing than in any Of the other
civilized countries"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-06
# the Great Upper Wood River Mining REGION

any church or any club such general
self-denying devotion to any object
could be found. Yet churchmen and
clubmen are supposed to be gener-
ally good-higher types of human
nature; while convicts are supposed
to be generally bad-living proofs
of the fallen condition of man.
The Standard.
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Notice for Publication.
Land Office at HALEY, Idaho

Land Office at HALEY, Idaho,
May 5, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice Of his inten-
sIs Ion 10 make final proof in support OF his
;tsm, and that said proof will be made be-
Tls M The Register and Receiver at HALEY,
i1ussho, on June Is, 1891, viz: Abilah
nnuSsms. Tor the SW Il Sec. IL and w n NV
!" Sec. IA, TIP. n. K II f.
"a ne names the following witnesses to
prov, Prove his continuous residence upon, and
.u.ayation of. said land, viz: II. NJ. Stew
nv nv !ohn Monks, Frank Mats, of Ketch-
Hsil H Idaho; Louis Bourgeois, OF HALEY,
W. T. RILEY, Register.
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4 TREASURED 1xle.
Longfellow's GIFT to . Boytsh
Admirer.

Four Boston men had q little
supper at the Quincy House two OF
three nights ago. Toward midnight
an epidemic of retrospection broke
out among them.
One told a queer story of an en-
counter with the Mayor of a South.
ern city, another gave his strange
experiences in the far West, and an.
other described q funny encounter
with q Senator at q Western capital
The fourth was a foreigner, who
came to this country about dozen
or more years ago, engaged in bust.
ness and has prospered steadily ever
since. He said that he could tell q
story of himself that would beat all
the other records. His had been q
unique experience, such as no othe,
man had known, and he insisted
that his friends should come to his
house, late as it was, and hear all
about it.
When the midnight journey had
been made, and the friends were
comfortably settled with cigars
alight, the host said:
"When I first came to this coun.
try I was a greenhorn fresh from
old Ireland. My first home was
with friends at Cambridge. In one
of my walks, before had been here
q week, I came across q queer, old
fashioned house that interested me
immensely. l described it to my
friends, and found that it was tht
home of the poet Longfellow. Thai
increased my interest, raw lad thai
| was.
"The next day l went again te
the queer house, and stood gawkily
looking at it and an old gentleman
sitting in the yard. l stared so Ions
that the old gentleman noticed it
and, coming up to the fence, asked
me what was looking at. l tolc
him that wanted to see the mar
who lived there, because had read
his works in the schools of Ireland
1.-THE old gentleman asked m,
what I knew about Longfellow'l
writings, and ! told him that knew
enough about one poem to repeat
every word of it.
"When he heard that he asket
me to come into the house and re-
cite the poem to him. / went il
and repeated "The Village Black
smith" without making a mistake
That pleased my listener, and, put
ting on his hat, he asked me t,
walk with him. He said that
should have something that many
people had asked for and tried il
vain to get.
"He stopped under big tree ant
said: This is the tree under which
that poem you repeated was written
The village smithy was under thiI
tree a
"Then the aged poet marched up
and with his own hands broke of
q branch of that famous tree ant
gave it to me.
The host went to a chest, and
taking from it a withered relic, said
Gentlemen, here is that branch.
Boston Herald.
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Curious Revival Of . Very Wrong
Rite at Madura.

A barbarous custom, which has
been obsolete for many years in
India, 10 about to be revived in
fact, the initial step has been taken
by it's recent enactment in q little
village in South India. It is tho GER
emony of hook-swinging," which
is essentially . human sacrifice.
When various scourges, such as
small. pox, cattle dissase or famine
af1ict the people, the goddess Mira
NAL is supposed to be angry, and
will be propitiated only by q most
cruel rite. This brutalizing cere-
mony was enacted near Madura q
few weeks ago.
Eight men were selected accord
ing to the olden plan from four viii
lagos, and lots cast among them.
The lot fell on q young Kullen of
the age of Is. He was of medium
height and remarkably well built.
He was taken at once to the temple
and prepared for his ordeal. What
these preparations were is q secret,
but they must have been of q nature
to benumb the sensibilities. On the
day appointed for the swinging to
take place Thousands of people had
gathered to witness the horrible
exhibition.
The victim was taken from the
temple, the iron hooks were en-
beded in the muscles of his back
and he was led to the scene of his
torture. The pole on which he was
to be swung was about so feet long.
At its middle point it rested on a
pivot-like projection rising up from
scar" By q short, strong rope
the hooks were bound to one end Of
the pole, which had been lowered.
The signal being given, the farther
end was pulled down, and victim
raised to the height of about SO
feet above the heads of the people,
his only support being the iron
hooks in his back. He was swung
once in a circle around the car, and
then the latter was started forward
1t was dragged by means of large
ropes, and through a distance oI
probably three.quarters of mile
the young Kullen, dangling above
for the period of one hour and 9
quarter. As sudden jerks were giver
to the pole by occasional sinking'
of the wheel of the car into hole
in the road the unfortunate man
was tossed from side to side, but
the hooks did not pass through
their fastenings. Throughout the
ordeal he kept his hands waving tc
show that he had not tainted. From
time to time he pulled up flowers
and fruit by means of . rope, and
scattered them about to the people
below. These, as they fell, were
eagerly grasped. When the car had
come back to it, 8 starting place the
goddess was considered to be salts.
fed the victim was lowered and the
ropes united, but the hooks were not
taken from his back for two hours
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A peculiar mineral has been found
in Montana. When taken from the
ground it has much the appearance
Of iron ore, but whom exposed e the
air il takes fire and consumes itself.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-02-06
Where People Live the Longest

the world ie only about thirty-eight
years very few live to be ninety,
and not more than one out of 1900
sees his hundredth birthday. Is
this due to original differences in
the babies themselves or in the way
they are brought up, in the places
in which they live, in the air they
breathe and in their mode Of life
after they become full grown? To
answer these questions one of the
tirst things we want to know is
whether people die equally fast
everywhere, and if net, where is
it that they die soonest or live
longest? The answer to this is that
people die much more rapidly
in some countries than in others.
For instance, they die twice as fast
in Hungary as they do in Sweden.
In the year 1889 out of every 1000
persons living in the following
countries there died: In England,
18; in Norway, II; in Sweden, 16
in Austria, q; in Hungary, 80; in
Germany, %; in France, 21, in
Italy, Is. How many died in the
United States we do not know; be-
cause no account of them was kept
in the greater part of the country ;
but it was probably II or Is out OF
each 1000 living. We do know,
hover, that they died faster in some
cities than in others. For example,
out of each l 900 people living there
died during the year ending May
81, 1890, in New York city, q; in
Brooklyn, -25; in Boston, "a; in
Philadelphia, %; in Chicago, 81 ;
in Detroit, 20; in st. Louis, 19, and
in Minneapolis Is; while in the
country districts the loss was only
II or IL out of each 900.
Also, we know they died faster in
some parts of the same city than
they did in others; thus, the death
rate per 1000 in Boston in the
Eighth ward was 33, while in the
Twenty-fourth ward it was 18. In
Brooklyn, in the Fifth ward, it was
33, and in the Twenty-fourth ward
10; and in Philadelphia it was "a
in the Fourth ward and II in the
Thirty-third ward. What are the
causes of these great differences?
In the first place they depend upon
the number of little children pres.
ent in these different places. The
baby's grasp of existence is at first
feeble; the little fame of life in it
flickers and trembles, and it does
not require much to put it out alto
gether. The heavy death rates oc'
cur among the children. Thus, in
the Fourth ward in Philadelphia,
out of each thousand white children
under five years old lis died, while
in tho Thirty-third ward only So
died, which accounts for q large
part of the difference in the death
rates of the two wards, and at the
same time shows that there must be
some great difference between them
in their influence on child life
John 8. Billings, NJ. D., of the Cen
sus Bureau.
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IS South Main ST.,

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Consultation and examination will
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An Outlaw Killed.

T%AHLEoUAH. l. IT,, Nov. 4.-Ned Christy.
the noted outlaw. for whom officers have
been searching some time, was finally killed
to-day. A posse Of United States deputy
marshals, headed by Dick Bruce. sur
rounded his cabin this morning. When
one Of Christy's companions came out he
was summoned to surrender but replied
with n shot from his Winchester, and his
companions in the house also fired a vollsy.
Then began a battle which lasted all day
without damage ON either side. This even
ing the officers resorted TO dynamite and
succeeded in blowing down part OF the
cabin and setting fire to the remainder.
While the blaze was at its height Christy
tried to escape and falling to halt when
ordered, was brought to the ground, rid
died with bullets. Charlie Harris, a com.
panion. gave himself up. The body of
Charley Wolf. who was wounded In the
morning, was burned to a crisp in the
cabin. The females of the family had
been allowed to retreat at the beginning OF
the fight.
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NJ

Remember this: The greatest line
OF railway operating between St
Paul or Minneapolis and Milwau.
kee and Chicago is the Chicago
Milwaukee & ST. Paul. 1t owns and
operates, under one management,
6,1OO miles OF track.
Every day this road starts FOUR
handsome, elegantly equipped pas.
Senger trains from n Twin Cities
that run through to Milwaukee
and Chicago without change OF
cars OF any class. TWO trains daily
to St. Louis and Kansas City. The
train service and general equip
ment OF THE MILWAUKEE" il
not surpassed by any railway IL,
America. 1t runs the famous and
only eleCtric-lighted vestibuled linn.
tied train to Chicago daily-con.
sidered the finest regular train in
this country.
1t is the Official Government Fast
Mail line. If you are gong to Chi.
caqo, Milwaukee, OF any point
east or south, or to St. Louis or
Kansas City, cut this out:
Leave ST. Paul B 7:35 a. m. arrive at Chicago
1000 same evening.
Leave st. Paul A 2: 10 Z. M, arrive at Chicago
6:4G aext morning.
Leave st. Paul A 6:53 p. M, arrive at Chicago
200 next morning.
Leave st Paul A 500 p. M, arrive at Chicago
$50 next morning.
Leave st. Paul A OILS a. M. arrive at st. Louis
$50 next morning,
Leave st. Paul { 1:lb p. H.. arrive at st. Louis
6.I5 next evening.
Leave st. Paul A a:i5 r. M. arrive at Kansas
City 7;U0 next morning.
Leave ST. Paul c 7:i5 p. M, arrive at Kansas
City 500 next evening.
Daily. b Except Sunday. c Except Saturday.
Palace sleepers on night trains.
Parlor chair cars on day trains.
Dining car service superb,
Trains leave from St. Paul Union
Depot. No trains. Forlowest rates
to all points in United States and
Canada apply to any ticket agent
or address j. 7. CONLEI,
Assistant Gen. Pass. Aqt.,
St Paul. Mimi.
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agent appointed by Secretary Noble. Your
correspondent was in Washington ut the
time and had tho extreme pleasure, IL not
the honor, OF "breakinR in" Norton.
He stopped 81 the Ebbitt and entertained
with that spontaneous hospitality that be-
longs TO the south. There waa something
abont his hearty invitation TO step down to
the refractory and get some groceries that
was perfectly irresistible. He WAS intelli-
gent and az bright as a policeman's button.
He was born in l,exas.
Norton was assigned to California. His
incorriRible honesty won for him the repu-
tation OF being one of the most efficient
agents In the service. Everything was all
right until Carter became commissioner
During the summer Of 1891 Notion stir cd
up a few influential and wealthy timber
thieves. The leader of the gang was a re-
was an open rupture. The weak. liberal
and generous United Statea attorney OF
California took sides against Norton, as did
Chief High, of the fraudulent entry dlyia-
ion. Carter took Highs word for it and i'll
June. 1892, Norton was numbered 'monR
the slain.
1t was a clenr case of being too honest and
conscientious. The United States attorney
of California stated that Norton's %inyesti-
cations were injuring "the party" In shat
state. just think of ii! 1t must be u very
sensitive and thin-skinned party that oan
be injured by the honest discharge Of an
officials duty.
An influential timber tresspasser these
days ia as dangerous to monkey with az a
buzzsaw in motion.
Col. Ball. the late special agent at spo-
kane. Wash, another honest and efficient
ser, during the spring of 1892 investi-
gate the recent timber depredations OF
John a.. Stone stone is still "A brother-in-
law of Senator Proctor, of Vermont, and
before Ball had completed the investiga-
tions Stone was in Washington. He called
on Chief High. Ball was dismissed. This
fellow High is q strange compound. He il
q creature of that oddly, George Nj.
Chandler, first assistant secretary of the
interior. Both hail from Kansas With
them 'Sparks was a ~tyrant" and they are
trying hard to undo the good that Sparks
accomplished while commissioner.
M. j. HALEY.