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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-27

The congressman viii probably have
TO do their own letter writ
ing at the extra session of
congress. They are at liberty, it has
been ruled, to employ private secretaries,
or clerks, at the extra session if they
please. But the fund available for the
purpose is only 0,0OO, and if the new
luxuries are taken on at the extra session
most of the money will be gone before the
beginning of the regular session. 1t is
true the House might pass another appro-
priation to meet the emergency. But the
extra session was not called for the pur-
pose of making appropriations.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-27

The MORNING News is Pleased to note
that the papers of the state are beginning
to get warmed up on the subject of the
convict lease law, and are calling for
its repeal. This paper has for months
and years been laboring to have the
ubiquitous system abrogated, and
the convicts placed out of competition
with honest labor and where they can do
the state the most good under state care
and at labor upon pubic highways and
other public works. In commenting upon
the horrors of the lease system. the Macon
News says. White and negro women
are worked together indiscriminately and
driven by guards and tracked by blood
hounds. There is every reason to believe
that bosses are in the habit of taking adj
vantage of their helpless victims" Stories
recently afoat give point to these obser-
vatious, and add force to the popular
demand that The convict lease system
must go" The way to make it go is to
ventilate the evils of the system, and that
is the province of the newspapers.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-27

Some of our contemporaries appear to
entertain the idea that Justice Long, of
the Michigan supreme court, is the
party most at fault in that extraordinary
pension grab But such is not the case.
Justice Long made only one regular APP
plication for pension, and never rcgu-
ularly asked for an increase He said in
private letter to Commissioner Tanner
that an increase would be acceptable.
and uron that private letter, without fur
Their examination Of the pensioner and
without official application being made,
Tanner re-rated the pension and granted
large arrearages. Justice Long is rot
the person most al fault il the matter
He probably thought, and thinks, with
lots OF other union veterans. that patriot
ism is worth all that one can get for il.
Recently a life-term convict in the Mis-
sissippi pcnitentiary murdered another
convict. The deed was committed within
the prison walls, and the principal wit
nesses were conyicts. The Efe-termer.
who would seem to be already dead to the
law, has been indicted and viii DE put on
trial for murder, and the testimony of
the convict witnesses will be taken. The
outcome win probably lie hanging, and
the incorrigible criminal will be nut
where he can do no more harm In the
Michigan ponitcntiary "a short while ago,
notorious iifc-term convict killed two
men with poison in an attempt to escape.
Under the Michigan law there is no death
penalty, and as the convict was already
serving the extreme sentence under the
law, nothing could be done with him for
bis murders in prison
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-27
Sensational Russell Sage.

The many times millionaire and finan.
cier, Russell Sage, furnishes the New
York newspapers good many sensations.
He is such quiet, unobtruslve individual,
always paying strict attention to his bust
ness of making money, that it would be
supposed that he would never figure in
the public prints.
Not long ago ME country was startled
by the announcement that a crank named
Norcrossihad attempted to kill him with
a dynamite bomb because he would not
give the crank $1,000, 900, or some such
amount. Next he was a defendant in a
suit for 100000 brought by man named
Laidlaw, who declared that Mr.. Sage
used him as a shield when Norcross threw
the bomb. Mr.. Sage wasn't seriously
hurt by the bomb nor did the jury com
pei him toAay Laidlaw damages. a very
lucky man Mr.. Sage appears to be
When the stringency in the money mar
ket in New York began Mr.. Sage had sew
cral millions of dollars at his command
which he has been loaning at extraordi-
narily high rates of interest. 1t is said
that at times he received as interest on
| his loans as much as $4,000 a day.
MIR. Sage is just now furnishing the pa
| pers with another sensation. a woman
named Della Keegan has brought suit
for breach of promise against him and
asks for 100000 damages. She says
when she was much younger and hand
sonier than she is now Mr.. Sage promised
to marry her. That was a good many
years ago Mr.. Sage married another
woman, and Della Keegan has just discov.
cred apparently that her affections were
trihed with and knowing that the courts
sometimes make rich men pay handsomely
for such triAiug, she asks for small part
of MIR. Sage's millions. Mr.. Sage says, OF
course, that the suit is a Matchmaking
one. If Mr.. Sage keeps on furnishing
sensations he will soon be almost a.
widely known as DR.. Chancy NJ. Depew
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-27

Vice-President Stevenson happily es-
capped the deep humiliation that fell to
the lot of President Benjamin Harrison
during his western tour: Pennoyer, of
Oregon, graciously shook hands with Mr.
Stevenson. But, then, it must be remcm-
bcred that the Vice President went to
Pennoyer. That extraordinary parsonage
would never, never have moved out of his
tracks to welcome a man Of less import
ance than himself-in his own mind
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-27

In selecting legend for his state whis-
Ky labels, Gov. Tillman, Of South Caro-
lima, certainly fell far short of paying his
state compliment. "Animis opibusque
paraJi," thepartof the state motto which
appears on the whisky bottles, means,
Prepared in mind and resources; ready
TO give life and property"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-27

EASTERN OFFICE. % Park Row, New
York City c. s FAULKNER, Manager.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25

The groom wears dress suit; the
bride high neck white gown. The
bridesmaids and bridal party are
all in high necked dresses, as it is
considered the height of improprie-
ty to enter church decollete. At
ter the service, during part of which
the bridal couple sits on chairs
with their backs to the congrega-
ton, the bridesmaids take up col
lection, passing purses made of the
same material as their dresses. The
proceeds are given to the poor.
The question is often asked, "Are
French marriages usually happy p
AS rule they are more so than
American marriages. The man is
carefully selected by the BRIDES
parents, who are better able to
judge what will prove a suitable
match than a girl of 20, who knows
so little of the world and has seen
so few men that she is commonly
ready to love the chosen one. 1t is
the fashion for French writer's to
deal with immoralities of all sorts,
and this gives foreigners false
idea of things. AS a matter of fact,
the standard of morality of the
middle classes is quite as high in
France as in America, while the So
called upper circles are about the
same in all countries.-Jenness
Miller illustrated.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
Wild Dogs of India.

I notice reference in the article
entitled 1.-The Courage of Animals
to the fact that the wild dogs of
India attack and destroy tigers.
have no personal knowledge of the
matter, but / have been told by an
Indian officer that the modus oper-
andi of the "red dogs" is as follows
Having found their tiger, they
proceed, not to attack him at once,
as might be inferred from your
article, but to starve him until
they have materially reduced his
strength. Night and day they form
Gordon round the unfortunate
beast, and allow him no chance OF
obtaining food or rest. Every time
the tiger assays to break the circle
this is widened as the pack flies
from him, only to be relentlessly
narrowed again when the quarry is
exhausted. After a certain period
of this treatment the tiger falls a
comparatively easy prey to his act
i've and persevering enemies. This
theory of their plan of attack, while
it may detract somewhat from the
wild dogs reputation for courage
must add considerably to our esti
mate of their intelligence.-Lon
don SnectatOr.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
The Right End Of the Trail.

Attorney George A. Knight is a
native of Humboldt county, and is
proud of it. He never allows an
opportunity to slip to make the
fact known to his friends and ac-
quaintances, and is never tired of
repeating the assertion that Hum
boldt is the finest county in the
finest State in the finest country
under the sun. He was discussing
politics with Steve White and a
party of mutual friends not long
ago, and as usual during the course
of the conversation referred to the
place of his nativity as the one and
only natural dwelling place on the
face ofthe globe. .
"If you like Humboldt so we'll
why didn't you stay there?" asked
Mr.. White.
"Well, Tll tell you," and the at
torney knitted his brows and slow
ly extended his index finger, as if
to impress more firmly upon his
hearers the full weight of what he
was about to say. I'll tell you. |
went out into the woods one day
and saw man cutting down tree
for sawlogs. Upon inquiry found
that he was getting mighty poor
wages. / followed the log to the
sawmill and found that the mill
hands got poor wages. | got on
the schooner that brought that lum.
Der to San Francisco, and saw
that the son-of-a-gun who sold the
lumber wore diamonds, and | con-
cluded that this was the right end
of the trail to camp on"
The laugh that followed was not
at Mr.. Knights expense.--Sar
Francisco Chronicle.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
Unpardonable OHenses.

Certain sins of omission and COM
mission there are for which there is
neither forgiveness nor absolution.
A woman will forgive the man
she loves for squandering her for
tune, destroying her peace of mind,
dishonoring the name he has given
her, but woe be unto him if he for
gets to kiss her goodby when he goes
down town in the morning, says the
New York Sun. He may take off his
coat, roll up his shirt sleeves, take
a week off for it, buy flowers, bon
bons, theater tickets, be so good
and penitent that he doesn't know
himself and has to be introduced to
his mirror every morning-he can't
make that right until the crack of
the doom. She never forgives and
forgets that, even if she says she
does.
Another objectionable sin is to
spell a mans name wrong. You
may tread on his toes, steal his
umbrella, cheat him, give him the
wrong points on the races, but don't
spell his name wrong if you desire
him for friend.
A woman never forgives a man
for criticising her perfume; a man
hates the fellow that runs down the
brand of cigars he likes.
A woman may forgive the man
who puts his umbrella down where
it will drip all over her in the car;
she never forgives the woman that
sits down next to her with dress
that spoils hers.
A little woman rather likes to be
called a pussy or chicken by a
big, good-natured man, but she
never forgives him if he calls her q
cat or an old hen.
She never forgives the woman
that coaxes her servants away by
offering them better wages, or the
woman who knows her age and
tells it, or the woman the man she
likes admires and praises, or the
woman who always looks a little
finer, dresses bit handsomer, does
things shade handsomer than she
can herself. We all know that wo-
man and hate her, while we smile
into her eyes and kiss her good-by,
acknowledging ourselves her infe-
rior. No woman sits down and be-
walls her inability to wear the Astor
diamonds or to rival the famous
beauties of the world, but it is the
woman who buys one more gown
than we can afford, who keeps two
servants when we have only one,
who fades our pinks with her roses
and dulls our charms with her
graces whom it is hard to forgive
as we would be forgiven.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
The Training of Animals.

There are few benefits which we
owe to our forefathers greater than
the endless skill and patience with
which they tanned those animals
which we call at the present day
domestic" It must have required
a steady perseverance, extending
through countless generations, to
have succeeded in inducing such
essentially wild and mistrustful an
imals as cats to lay aside their
timidity and suspicion and to be-
come the faithful friends of man.
The people who accomplished
this great benefit for posterity had
more leisure than their restless and
hard working defendants. They
we're, generally speaking, members
of the slave States, in which the
food supply was plentiful and in
which we may suppose that the
masters and slaves had plenty OF
time on their hands. In some cases
the obvious utility of these animals
caused them to be tanned. In some
cases this very utility came to in
vest them with special sancity,
which, as in the case of the cat in
Egypt and the COW in India, af-
forded an additional guarantee for
their preservation.
The ancients seem to have tanned
almost all the existing animals
known to them that were worth
tanning; had they known the Amer.
lean bison they might have added
him to the list of draught animals
we possess; possibly, too, the
weasel, stoat and polecat might
have been reclaimed and employed
as a useful foe to vermin. 1t is
certain that some animals which
| were once tanned have been allowed
to relapse into a wild state, such as
hawks, monkeys and crocodiles in
Egypt and weasels in Greece and
Rome.-The Academy.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
He Knocks Out His Teeth.

It is said that when native OF
Hawaii wishes to give evidence OF
his sorrow at the loss of a kinsman
he goes to some secluded spot and
tries to knock out one of his front
teeth. In case it is his maiden eff
fort at mourning the bereaved not
unfrequently bungles the job, and
on looking over the debris often
finds that be has knocked out a
couple or more.
If the grief-stricken party, how
ever, lacks the nerve or distrusts
his prowess to accomplish the
tooth's displacement, dear and
obliging friend is always at hand to
offer his assistance. AS result OF
this custom a man of middle age is
often short so many teeth that gas
tronomers are embarrassed in mas
ticating their food.
American dentists will do land
Office business in Hawaii If the
United States annexes the islands.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
New Game of Solitaire.

There are countless numbers OF
persons to whom new game Of
solitaire is a gift beyond price. A
new game comes from England. 1t
is called the "Sultan." The object
of the game, from which its name
is derived, is to leave the king OF
hearts surrounded by group OF
admiring queens. These are the
rules:
Shuttle two packs of cards and
then withdraw the eight kings and
one ace of hearts. Put one of the
king of hearts in the center and
around him the other kings and
the ace of hearts in the form of a
square. The king of hearts in the
center must remain untouched till
the end. On the right and left of
the center lay out four common
cards-eight in all. Now commence
to draw, laying the ace of each suit
on each king and the deuce on the
ace of heards.
If a card can be found among the
8 outside ones which can be used
take it and replace the card from
the rubbish heap, or bone yard, or
trash pile, as it is known in your
nomenclature. This heap may be
turned twice. If you are success
full, in the end your king of hearts
is in the center, surrounded by
eight packs of cards with the queen
on top.-Boston Transcript.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
Eyeless Fish In Boiling Water.

One of the most remarkable dis
coveries in the shape of a peculiar
species of fish ever made on this
continent was that made at Carson
City, Nevada, in 1876. At that
time both the Hale & Norcross and
the Savage mines were down to
what is known as the "2, ,2OO-foot
level" When at that depth SUBJ
terranean lake of boiling water was
tapped. This accident flooded both
mines to depth of 400 feet. After
this water had all been pumped out
except that which had gathered in
basins and in the inaccessible por-
tions of the works, and when
the water still had a temperature of
1928 degs.-nearly scalding hot
many queer looking little blood red
fish were taken out. In appear
ance they somewhat resembled the
goldfish. They seemed lively and
sprtive enough when they were in
their native element-boiling water
notwithstanding the fact that
they did not have rudimentary eyes.
When the fish were first taken out
of the hot water and put into buck.
cts of cold water for the purpose OF
being transported to the surface
they died as quickly as perch OF
a bass would if plunged into a ket-
tie of water that was scalding hot
not only this, but the skin peeled
off exactly as if it had been boiled
Eyeless fish are common enough
in all subterranean lakes and rivers
but this is the only case on record
of living fish being found in boiling
water-St. Louis Republic.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
How They Saved a Young Man-

eve saved a young man once
from going to the bad, and in very
peculiar way" said w. S. Arrack, a
New York banker, at the Southern
Hotel to a reporter. "We had a
clerk in our bank who, while he
did not handle great deal of our
money, was very bright young
fellow, good business man, and
we were on the verge of promoting
him when we heard that he was
living fast and spent more money
than he made. He had stolen moth
ing from us, we knew that, and it
was really none of our business.
Did he gamble? We couldn't find
out, and, of course, we couldn't ask
him. However, we determined to
find out, and we did.
One of the senior officers of the
firm took a personal interest in the
boy and set out to save him. We
have lunch served in the bank every
day, and instead of taking his with
the rest of the clerks he was invited
into the seniors office to lunch with
him. After the lunch they would
smoke and chat. At the corner OF
the desk was placed an ordinary
stack of white chips-a relic OF a
former clerks downfall.
swell, for several days the boy
scarcely noticed them, but finally
one day, in listening to the seniors
remarks, his hand un consciously
stole to the chips and he began to
shuttle them in that nervous man
ner so common to gamblers. We
had him. No novice could shuttle
chips. Simple as it seems it comes
only of long practice. We accused
him of it and he broke down and
told US all about his habits and his
debts. We paid the latter and got his
promise to quit. He kept his word.
It delayed his promotion q year,
but it saved the boy. If it hadn't
been for that little trick of ours he
might now be in prison instead OF
in an excellent position with .
good alary."-Globe-D Democrat.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25

theory is not to be set aside by an
objection so trifling. By and by
our ancestors "awoke to the con-
sciousness that they were patchy
and spotty," and resolving to Give
down" all hair that was not orna-
mental they with remarkable unan-
unity seemed to have fixed on the
eyebrows, the mustache and-un-
fortunately as the self scrapers
mostly think-the beard as being
all that was worth preserving of the
primative covering.-English Illus
trated Magazine.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
HOMEMADE PAxTALOONS.
Wool From Sleeps Back Made Into
Clothing In Forty Hours

Late in the afternoon of one of
the last days of May, in the year
1876, when I was few months
short of Is years old, notice came to
Townsend, Mass, where my father
used to live that fifteen soldiers
were wanted.
The training band was instantly
called out, and my brother, who
was next older than |, was one that
was selected. He did not return
till late at night, when we were all
in bed. When l rose in the morn
ing I found my mother in tears, and
she informed me that my brother
John was TO march next day after
tomorrow morning at sunrise. My
father was in Boston, in the Mas
sachusetts assembly.
Mother said that though John
was supplied with summer clothes
he must suffer for winter garments.
There were at this time no stores
and no articles to be had, except
such as each family could make
itself. The sight of mothers tears
always brought all the hidden
strength Of body and mind into
action. l instantly asked what
garment was needed. She replied
"pantaloons. "Oh, if that is all, .
said I, I'VE will spin and weave him
pair before he goes" "But," said
mother, ''the wool is on the sleeps
back and the sheep are in the pas
ture."
Immediately turned to younger
brother and bade him take the salt
dish and call them to the yard.
Mother replied, "Poor child, there
are no sheep shears within three
miles and a half.0
II have some small shears at the
loom," said /.
"But you can't spin and weave
it in so short time"
II am certain we can, mother" F"
"How can you weave it? There is
long web of linen in the loom."
By this time the sound of the
sheep made me quicken my steps
toward the yard. | requested my
sister to bring the wheel and cards
while I went for the wool. | went
to the yard with my brother and
secured white sheep, from which
| sheared with my loom shears halt
enough for web. We then let her
20 with the rest of her fleece. ]
sent the wool in with my little sis
ter, and Luther ran for a black
sheep and held her while | cut wool
off for my filling and half the warp
and then we allowed her to go with
the remaining coarse part OF the
fleece.
The rest of the narrative the
writer would abridge by saying that
the wool thus obtained was duly
carded, spun, washed, sized and
dried. A loom was found few
doors off, the web "got in" and was
wove, the cloth prepared, cut and
made two or three hours before the
brothers departmental is to say
in forty hours from the commence
ment, without help from any mod
ern improvement-Mrs. Eunice l..
Richards in Greenfield Mass. } Ga
zette.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25

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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-03-25
A Theory About Mans Beard.

There is q theory favored by the
disciples of Darwin that the beard
is merely the survival Of primi-
tive decoration. Man, according
to this view, was originally as hairy
as the opossum itself, but as ne
rolled down the ages he wore the
hair off in patches by sleeping on
his sides and sitting against a tree.
Of course the hair Of dog is not
worn of in this way, but q grea.