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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-23

This portrait is in very poor light; why
don't you change it?"
Hostess-Because have another picture Of
the impressiontst school, "A Storm at Sea :,
and If change them can't tell them apart
-Inter-Ocean. -
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-23

The big petition for the establishment
of department of public roads, referred
to in our dispatches as having been intro
duced into the Senate by Senator Hoar,
was wheeled into the chamber upon BIZ
cycle of oak. The papers, on which $50
900 names had been written were pasted
together and wound on two immense
wooden spools and mounted on wheels.
the whole weighing 600 pounds. The in
PRODUCTION of the petition was followed
by an edifying dialogue between Senators
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, and Hoar,
of Massachusetts, a report of which we
are constrained to append: Senator
Gallinger claimed that it was a scheme of
a bicycle company to boom their business.
Senator Hoar responded that the bicycle
was the poor mans chariot, and then
added that perhaps DIR. Gallinger wanted
the poor men to save their money to buy
his pills and not bicycles. The doctor
senator replied that he would gladly give
a prescription free to the senator from
Massachusetts if it would do him any
good and make him think other senators
had the same rights in the Senate as him
seif.p
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-23
a Sad Christmas for MANY.

The number of people unemployed in
nearly every city of the country is ex-
traordinarily large. In the north and
west particularly there is a great deal of
suffering among the poor. The south is
better off in this respect than any other
section, but even in the south every city
has a larger percentage of people who are
in need of assistance than has been the
case for many years.
In New York a careful estimate shows
that there are $4,000 workingmen out of
employment, nearly every one of whom
las family or aged relatives dependent
upon him. And il is expected that this
number will be greatly increased after
Jan. l, because many employers have ex-
pressed an intention of cutting down ex-
penses by reducing their forces. Even
now, therefore, there must be two or
three hundred thousand people in New
York who are on the verge of starvation
In Chicago the situation is fully as bad
as it is in New York, if not worse. The
city is so full of tramps and beggars that
guards are stationed on the outskirts to
prevent any more entering the city
What is true of New York and Chicago
is true of nearly every other
city in the country, though in only few
of them, probably, is the percentage
of the needy so large. Not since 1873 has
there been so large part of the working
people out of employment.
Plans are being formed for aiding those
who are in actual want. In fact, in a
number of the large cities soup houses
have been started already, and places are
provided where lodging can be obtained
free of charge. Great as the call for
charity is now it promises to be much
greater before the end of the winter.
During the panic last summer the rich
were the sufferers. The poor had no rea-
son to complain. The poor are the ones
who are suffering now, and if they are
not helped through the bad times thou
sands of them will die from the lack of the
actual necessaries of life. Still immigra-
ton pours in.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-23

EASTERN OFFICE. % Park Ro's, New
York City. c. s. FAULKNER, Manager.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13

"don't tell me monkeys can't talk,
and the different species have diff
ferent voices and languages exactly
as human beings have"
A little farther on we come across
a tiny baby elephant, two feet
nine inches in height. 1t was as
black as coal and had just arrived
from Singapore. It was very play
full, but when I began pushing it
about, as one might roll big beer
barrel, it INDUCED in fretful growl,
which much amused US. Seven
beautiful elephants stood in one big
stable together, and as I admired
their huge proportions and won
dered at their entire gentleness l
said to Mr.. Hagenbeck: els it true,
as our great English circus propri-
etor, George Sanger, told me last
summer, that the Asiatic elephant
is far more intelligent than it's At
rican brother?" "Certainly not, "
replied Mr.. Hagenbeck. The Afri-
can elephants are just as clever,
just as gentle, just as intelligent as
the Asiatic elephants. There is no
difference between them, and l
ought to know, for I have had to
do with them for thirty years and
l have imported as many as IS in
one year."
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
Stamping Out Cholera

DR.. I. Telyafus of Tiflis, Russia,
has recently published a brochure
embodying his views as to the most
efficient means of strangling chol-
era in its Indian home, and of thus
freeing Europe and America from
the constant menace of its period
ical excursions. The habitat of the
cholera bacillus is, he says, the delta
of the Ganges, a low-lping area of
some 7 800 square miles, intersected
by the many mouths of the Ganges
and Brahmapootra rivers. The
soil of the delta is very moist and
contains the putrefying remains of
many forms of animal and plant
life. Cholera has ragged here endem-
ically from time immemorial, and
every now and then, after unusually
heavy rains, from other ill-under-
stood causes, it emerges thence and
invades one or more of the neigh
boring provinces, or spreads as a
pandemic over the entire world.
There have n'four such general
invasions, and we are now passing
through the fifth.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
Early Purchases of tho Indians.

Captain West in the year 1910
bought the present sight of Rich
mond, Va, for "some coppers.
The Dutch Governor, Minuit, bought
the whole of Manhattan Island, the
present sight of the city of New
York, 'sfor 60 Dutch gilders, some
of them being of a doubtful metal. "
Lord Baltimore's company bought
thousands of acres of fine land for
less than that number of glass beads,
including sight of the City of
Christians, ''for which was paid one
kettle of the bigness of five quarts
or thereabouts."
Roger Williams bought Rhode
Island, "Little Rhody," for 40
fathoms of white beads, strung" "
It has only been 255 years this
spring since the site of New Haven,
Conn, was bought for ''12 coats OF
English cloth, IL spoons of mixed
metal, IL hoes, IL hatchets, II por-
ringers, "a knives and some French
knives and spoons. st Louis Re-
public.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
A Touching Story.

This touching little story is told
by the Chicago ter-Ocean of the
young fellow who has just declared
himself King of Servia: :" Between
the boy and his mother the strong
est affection has always existed, and
if he continues to keep the upper
hand of the regents political neces-
stiles will no longer prevent him
from obeying the promptings of
his heart towards his mother, who
is also beloved by the Servian peo-
pie. After the Infamous divorce
secured by ex-King Milan the boy
was compelled to remain with his
father. During the long summer
days before Natilie was expelled
from Servia she used, accompanied
by single attendant, to seat her.
self on a rustic bench along the
drive where the boy king passed
with his father for a swim in the
river. Milan sat on the left of his
son and sovereign and puffed Wig
orously'away at his cigar as though
it were his purpose to hide the
boy away in clouds of smoke from
his mothers sad eyes. Invariably,
however, the little king arose from
his seat on catching sight of her
and after saluting her formally with
his military salute turned and sly
ly kissed his hand to her as long as
the carriage remained in sight,"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
Obsolete Words.

The number of obsolete words
that are to be found in Webster's
Dictionary is considerably larger
than people have any idea of. The
following letter, written by an al
legged poet to an editor who had
treated his poetry with derision,
furnishes some idea of them:
"SIR-You have behaved like an
impetiginous scrogle! Like those
who, envious of any moral celsi-
tude, carry their ungicity to the
height of creating symposically the
fecund words which my pollymathic
genius uses with liberty to abligate
the tongues of the weetless! Sir,
you have crassly parodied my own
pet words as though they were
trangrams. Twill not coascervate
reproaches-I will oduce veil ov-
er the atramental ingratitude which
has ohamfered even my indiscerp-
tible heart. / am silent on the
focillation which my coadjuvancy
must have given you when | Of
fered to become your fantor and
adminicle. l will not speak of the
lippitude, the oblepsy, you have
shown in exacerbating me. one
whose genius you should have ap-
preached with mental discalcea-
ton. So l tell you, without super
vacaneous words, nothing will rem
der ignoscible your conduct to me.
1 warn you that l would vellicate
your nose if l thought that any
moral diarthrosis thereby could be
performed-if l thought l should
not impignorate my reputation.
Go tachygraph scrogle, band with
your Grass inquinate fantors; draw
oblectations from the thought, If
you can, of having sychronically
lost the existimation of the greatest
poet since Milton
And yet all these words are to be
found in the Dictionary.-Boston
Herald.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
A Child's Queer Affection.

"Nothing like it on record" says
physicians of the curious case OF
Eva Vessel of Dayton, KY, just
across the river. Early in January
the child became covered with vived
red rings. No apparent discomfort
arose from them. Within q day
she began to swell and within three
hours had reached three times her
proper dimensions and has re-
mained so ever since. The swell
ing made it impossible for her to
swallow even the smallest amount
of food, and all this time she has
been kept alive by absorption;
Three times daily she is covered
with corn cooked to q mush IN
milk. The child appears to thrive
on this diet, is good natured ana
amuses herself with dolls ana PIC
lures. She is so huge that she can
not move, but reposes all tne Time
in bed. Physicians do not know
what is tho matter nor how TO tress
the case.-Cincinnati Post.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
Uncle Sam.

The practice of calling the
United States Government Uncle
Sam" is believed to have originated
in the following manner: During
the Revolutionary war a man
named Samuel Wilson was a beef
inspector at Troy, N. Y, and was
very popular with the men in his
employ, who always called him I'm
Gle Sam. After the inspection of
the beefit was shipped by him to
a contractor named Elbert Ander-
son, and was Away marked "E. A
U. S." A joking workman being
asked what those letters were the
abbreviation of replied that he did
not know unless they were for FL.
bert Anderson and "Uncle Sam. "
The joke was kept up and spread,
until it became common to refer to
all packages marked "U. s." a. be-
longing to Uncle Sam. ."-Ex.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
nuRlEl's HUSBANDS.
A Story Illustrating the Fact that Some
People Want the Earth.

The old lady at the depot in Lew
iston, Saturday, was perplexed.
"Lord love ye," said she to the
ticket agent, "I'm in an awful fuss.
It's this way. My eldest was Susan,
and then there was Joseph Henry,
who married Dobson, who died,
and then Emma, who lives in our
town and married William Hast
ings, up by the sawmill. Then
there's Muriel, and it's Muriel that
I came to visit. Well, Muriel mar
ried a man named Mason for first
husband and moved out to Wis
consin."
"Do you want ticket, ma'am?"
said the station agent.
"Eh? Yes, I do. | ain't goin' to
stay in this town. I'm goin' hum !
Well, as 1 was saying, they moved
to Wisconsin, to place called Ant
igo, and from there they moved to
Chicago, and then Muriel warn't
never no hand to write, but she said
last accounts that Mason warn't
much of pervider. Well, Muriel
got divorced, and she married
man named Carpenter, and she and
Carpenter didn't hitch no better'n
she and Mason did. Well, yer see
"Madam," said the official, Il do
not think can afford to hear that
story. Won't you buy your ticket
and give way to some one else?"
"Taint long story" said the old
lady. "Well, Susan she went out to
Chicago with her daughtert o visit
Muriel, and it seems that Muriel
had married again to man named
Smith. Well, Susan was a widder,
and she set her cap for Mason, who
was hanging round, and her daugh-
ter (she's twenty-seven, going on
twenty-eight) liked Carpenter, who
was nice-looking gentleman, and
Muriel she left the town and come
East, and, you see, I've been down
reconcilin' Muriel and Susan and
Susan's daughter"
"Did you reconcile 'em?" asked
the ticket agent, who was now in
terested.
did 1 reconcile 'em, mister p
said the old lady. did l recon-
cile 'em! No, sir, did not. Muir
iel's got her fathers temper, three
and three, and when l said to her,
gal, do you want all the nice men
in Illinoy and Wisconsin, and don't
want nobody else to have none OF
'em fer husbands and pertecters?
she hit me in the back with the
clothes-stick, and have marks
that 1 could show ye that I'll carry
to the grave"
A pause ensued, and she quaint
ly added, as she put away her rail
road ticket, "Mebbe l was a little
sarcastic. Lewiston Journal.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13

The KEYSTONE is the sole representative
of the Great Upper Wood River. Sawtooth
and Smoky mining regions, and, located
as it is in the very heart of the most PROM
Using mining country OF the face OF the
earth, and leaving nothing undone to pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis OF al
mining news and developments, as well -
matters Of local importance in and about
Ketchum, it is an Invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler OF every
craft and position. Subscribe for it, read
it, and let your friends read it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
A Miser's Last Wish.

A Greek beggar in the small town
of Caracal prayed as q last request
that his wife would bury him in the
dirty old overcoat which he wore
every day. The poor woman was
about to comply when . compatrlot
interfered and told her that she
should certainly not part with the
body before she had we'll examined
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
GEO. J. LEWIS, Agent.
Notice Of Forfeiture.

TO JOHN W. PLArr, his heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that have ex-
pended the sum of five hundred (5OO) dol
lars in labor and improvements upon the
DEER TR All. lode mining clalnl'
Situated on the Smoky divide, about twen-
ty-two miles from ketchum, in Warm
Springs Creek mining district. Altnras Sn;.
county, Idaho. as required by section 1924
Revised Statutes of the United States, be-
ing the amount required to hold the same
for the years ending December 81, 1887, to
December 81. 1891; that your proportion OF 9f
the same is $3.50, being one-halt; and II
within ninety 90 days from the service OF
this notice, or within ninety (9) days after
this notice by publication you fail or re-
fuse to contribute your proportion OF such
expenditure as co-owner. your interest IN
said claim will become the property OF the
undersigned under the provisions OF said
section 1924. FRANK J. Lemon,
Ketchum.. Idaho. July %, 1892.
First publication July 30. 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13

the coat, for there must be some
particular reason for the request.
The widow unpicked the lining of
the coat and found IS, 600 francs in
bank notes which the miser wished
to take into the grave with him.
London News.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13

The Illinois ticket-scalping Law
has been declared unconstitutlopak
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-05-13
For Sale Cheap.

A first-class hand Fire Engine, complete
without hose Apply to
WM.-D. GoEHRINo, Sec'y.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-31
BOILERS AFLOAT.
They Slid From the Deck of a Bangor
Schooner Into the Waves.

Orleans, October 30.-The three masted
schooner l. stie MEG. Buck of Bangor,
bound to Boston with deckload of
boilers, had rough experience off here
last night. She passed up by Orleans
with fresh southwest breeze, which
shifted to northwest as she got farther
northward, and when she poked, her nose
out past Cape Cod last night she took the
full fury of northwest gale with
tremendous sea rolling out of Boston bay
from the north shore. The captain
thought, however, that she would be
able to make the trip. across the bay, so
he kept her going with the rest of the
heet, as she was staunch craft and had
weathered many gale worse than this.
They were going along close hauled at a
terrific rate of speed, and the spray was
flying nearly mast head high when sud-
denly there was tremendous crash
forward. The captain thought the spars
were going by the board, but every thing
seemed to be all right aloft. The men
forward, however,, Immediately sung
out, The deck load is all adrift,s and to
his CONSERVATION the captain saw the
valuable boilers being. washed over into
the mighty billows. The men forward
cargo. After great exertion they sue
ceeded in wearing the vessel off on the
other tack, and at last got her headed
back under the cape, where they found
smoother water, and finally got back un-
der Orleans to a safe anchorage before
Daylight. From here she proceeded to
Boston ip tow.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-31
THE FUNERAL.
The Remains VIII be Escorted to the Tomb
by an Imposing Cortege.

The iseInalns VIII be Escorted to the Tomb
by an Imposing Cortege.
Chicago, October 30.-The final ar
rangements for the funeral of Carter
Harrison were completed this afternoon,
at a conference between the special al
dermanic committee and the sons of the
deceased. Tomorrow morning, at 10, the
casket containing the remains of the
murdered mayor will be conveyed from
the family residence to the CITY Hall
where it will lie in state in the centre of
the rotunda, until 10 Wednesday morn
ing. Details of members of the police
force and city fire department will act as
guard of honor to the remains. At 10
Wednesday morning the casket will be
returned to the house on Ashland avenue
Here, for half an hour, the members of
the family will be left alone with the
dead. In the meantime the funeral pro-
cession will form on the boulevard front
ing the residence, and at II the casket
will be borne from the house to the
hearse. Then the cortege will move.
The cortege, which will be several miles
in length, will proceed to the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Epiphany. at
Ashland avenue and Adams street. where
services will be held. Rev. Dr.. T. N.
Morrison, Jr., the principal officiating
clergyman, will deliver adiscourse, after
which the procession will march to
Graceland Cemetery.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-31

after 10 o'clock this morning and the in
dictment was voted Immediately after
wards. A deputation of the dead Mayors
personal friends called on A. S. Trude
ast.evening and asked him to take
charge of the prosecution OF the murderer
and see that he is promptly brought to
trial
Prendergast spent a quiet night in his
cell in the county jail. He slept quietly
from midnight till's S O'Clock. No special
guard was placed over him last night,
but the guards watched MIN closely
during the night. He slept soundly, be-
ing worn out by the excitement Of the
previous twenty-four hours AT o'clock
his breakfast was brought to him and he
frightened up at once. He was hungry
and ate the plain prison fare with a
relish. At o'clock a reporter called up
on the murderer, who looked up sullenfy
as his visitor approached the cell. "Weli,
Prendergast, how are you feeling this
morning." was asked. "Oh, feel all
right. I guess am all right"
Had q good nights rest did your"
Yes, l guess SO, I always sleep all
At this point Prendergast became
silent and leaning half back on his bed
partly closed his eyes. All efforts to
gradually lead the man into conversation
about the assassination failed.
The Portland daily press., 1893-10-31
CRIES OF LYNCH thin. "
THEN BLAZED AT THE POLICE WHO
FOUGHT 10 PROTECT HIM.

An Unfinished Building on Broadway the
/ Scene of the Battle-The Victim the
Foreman Who Had Ordered His Assail-
ant Away-Frightened Worknaen Ran
for Sheiter-The Shooter Shot l,y s,,e
Police and Pelted with Bricks.
New York, October 3o.-An excitec
workman rushed from the new building
! of the Postal Telegraph company, at
Broadway and Murray street, at Ait this
| afternoon, and called out that murder
GUS crank, at large ON the ground floor
OF the building, had shot the clerk of the
works and threatened murder by whole
sale. Officers hastened to the spot. In
side the building lay Superintendent
Frederick L. Matthias, who had charge
OF the construction for the architects.
| he was bleeding profrsely from bullet
wound in the abdomen. A number of
badly scared workmen were lurking be-
hind the pillars and piles of wood and
brick. Others crowded the temporary
stairs Leading to the next story. Mathias's
assallant was concealed behind a pile of
bricks in the rear of the building. The
officers ordered him out and the man
opened fire with his revolver, which was
returned by the officers. After firing
eight shots, the man rushed out. He
was seized and disarmed but, after being
disarmed, fought desperately and the DO
licemen had to use their clubs to over
come him. Hundreds of workmen en-
ployed in the building, and pedestrians
from Broadway, rushed in and the cry
was raised of Lynch himr' Somebody
picked up brick and struck the fellow
over the head. The police were obliged
to turn their attention to saving the man
from the fury of the crowd. A call was
sent in and in few moments an ambu-
lance arrived from the Chambers street
hospital. Both the victim and the pris.
oner were conveyed to the hospital. The
prisoner gave the name of Francis Brad
ley, laborer, without a home. Some of
the officers shots had been effective. for
Bradley was wounded twice iu the right
/ forearm. He had also scalp wound
which, it is said, was caused by a brick
thrown at him after his capture.
Bradley was first seen lounging around
the building in the early morning. He
was then ordered out by Matthias. Later
he returned and concealed himself be,
hind the bricks and when Matthias at>
tempted to dislodge him he was shot.
After being arrested, Bradley made al
-incoherent statement about people being
after him. He said he was q Grand Army
man, which cannot be true if the age be
gave, 81 years, is correct. Bradley hay
ersbeen seen around the building until
today; The police believe he is crazs~
and imagined that helwas being pursued
His 1nJurles. are .not.very severe. Matthias