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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
After Death---What?

The question is frequently asked :
"What will become of the higher
animals, since they too, have mind
and moral affections?" The more
startling question is asked: "What
will become of beastly savages?" or,
"Where do all the children go who
die in infancy?" 1t cannot be
thought that all these have acquired
citizenship in the universe. There
has scarcely been developed in
them personality, or anything by
which they would know themselves
after their earthly environment was
taken away. What clue of any sort
do they carry wherewith to main
tain their identity! Or what is
there in them worth saving, more
than so much mind-stuff or soul
stuff? We may believe that nothing
precious will be lost; we may hope,
too, if any being, dog or horse,
possesses the infinite qualities which
make true personalities and confer
the citizenship of the universe, that
somewhere the germ Of the higher
life will have development. But
surely the less development here,
the more slender must be any bond
of identity to connect another life
with this. It is often asked, "Shall
we know our friends?" This would
seem to depeud on what the basis
of friendship had been. The lower
kind of love involved in selfshness,
the friendship that arises opt Of
accidental juxtaposition, can bard
ly be conceived to hold after the
circumstances that hold it have dis
appeared. But there is q kind Of
love that grows out Of the higher
nature, another name Of which is
unsel6shness. This love, We think,
will know its own ION any eea or
shore" All noble souls, who have
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
A Cure for Dlphtheria.

A correspondent says: "Take q
flat iron and heat it little on a
stove; on this apply q very little
pitch (not gae) tar; have the iron
hot enough to make good smoke.
Then let the patient take into his
mouth the small end of q funnel,
and have the smoke blown through
the funnel into his mouth. Let the
smoke be inhaled we'll into the
throat for few minutes Eve or six
times a day. In very bad cases it
might be we'll to use it oftener. At
ter this let the patient lie on his
back, then break up small pieces of
ice and put them in his mouth and
let them 60 as far down to the root
of the tongue as possible. When
they have dissolved, put in some
more; this will keep down the in
hammation."
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
One Of Harrison's Stories.

On the first day of his recent
duck shooting experience in Hi.
nois, ex-President Harrison felt
very stiff in his arms and legs, and
complained of it to his companions.
The next day his friends equipped
him in new shirt and boots, which
fitted him loosely. When he came
home that night he laughingly re-
marked: II am somewhat like an
old fellow I knew in Hardinsburg,
Ind. He became firmly convinced
that he was about to be stricken
with apoplexy, as he suffered near
ly all day long with smothered
feeling. He visited a well-known
physician in a nearby town, who,
after examining him, said: My
friend all you need is a larger col
lar,n
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
A Long Walk.

A well-known comedian one day,
while fulfilling an engagement in
Dublin, was walking with his wife, a
remarkably stout, short lady, when
an Irish woman with q basket in
her hand brushed against her.
"You had better walk over me, y
said the comedians wife, irritably.
The Irishwoman turned round,
coolly viewed her from head to foot
and then replied, Faith, ma'am, it
would be easier to walk over you
than round you, anyhow"-a re-
mark which made the comedian
almost choke with laughter.-Lon-
don Answers.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
Excellent Tobacco Bags.

The best tobacco bags are made
not of leather or rubber, but of the
pouch of pelican. The monstrous
membrane which fills out the lower
bill of the pelican is soft and thin,
of very fine texture, easily tanned,
and when dressed makes = beauti-
full article Of leather, possessing the
quality Of being as impervious to
water as India rubber. Tobacco
kept in it will never become dry,
but retains its sweetness and aroma
even longer than when preserved
in tin foil,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
ALLIGATOR HUNTING N INDIA.
Monster Sauriaus From Fifteen "a
1wenty-six Feet Long.

During an eight years residence
in India, | caught many alligators,
varying from fifteen to twenty-six
feet. Let me premise by saying
that there existed at that time,
about eight or ten miles from Cal
cutta, farm with a large mill buik
on the river side in blight, where
pigs were killed and cured in large
numbers, the offal being thrown in
to the river. In this blight alliga-
tors swarmed. I for long time
tried shooting, but [ never got one,
for when shot they sank, and, get
ting into the current, were carried
down the stream. I have shot small
ones in tanks, and they invariably
took from two to three days to
come to the surface. The largest
in bulk that l ever caught measured
only nineteen feet three inches, but
at least four inches to six inches of
his tail had been taken off. He
measured close on to twelve feet in
girth just behind the fore legs or
fins. The head when cleaned
weighed sixty-four pounds and the
largest tooth seven and one-half
ounces. He had eight shot wounds
in his head, one eye was gone, and
nearly all its snout, and four bull
let's were cut out of his body. His
inside passengers consisted of "a
dead Hindoo," seven pairs Of ban
giles, three arm ornaments and
about fifteen inches oftwisted brass
wire; he had also three hair balls
similar to those found in cattle, no
doubt all formed of pigs hair from
the offal.
The longest one 1 ever caught
was for the late John Waterhouse
of Halifax, who was travelling with
a taxidermist. He measured close
on twenty-six feet twenty-five feet
ten inches). He was, however,
lanky and would not have weighed
more or so much as the one of nine
teen feet three inches. have fire.
quently had in the pen, where they
were put. two together, and pref
ty hobbery they made, growing
like dogs, lashing one another with
their tails, and wrestling with their
jaws locked. My apparatus for
catching consisted of forty faith
oms of one and a half inch white
Manila rope, at the end barrel
to serve as buoy, pile driven in
to the ground for long turn where
necessary, two shark hooks tied to-
gether, and for bait the lights of a
pig inflated through part of a wind
pipe, which foated the hooks. By
these means | have landed over
twenty. The banks were sloping
and muddy, SO no wonder the big
one dragged seventeen men down
into the water before he gave in-in
fact, drowned, as one hook held
and kept his mouth open. The
other hook he Strengthened and
tore the barbe off."-Correspond-
ence in London Field.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
Under Ground for Six Months.

"The stories of the remarkable
power of the Oriental adopts to
bury themselves, have not been ex.
aggerated in the least, said Archi.
bald G. Lewellyn, a Britonian
whose ruddy tan and sturdy frame
bespeak the exposure and trials OF
many lands, to q reporter of the
Washington News.
"When I first went to India some
years ago, like every other white
man, / was absolutely increduloua
as to the ability of any man on
earth to be Theoretically scaled ia a
box and buried underground for six
months or six hours for that matter.
Zone day my dhinga told me of
fakir who had just come into the
little village who, he said, could per-
form the feat.
"After a great deal of ceremony
and by dint of a liberal bribe we set
about to bury the yellow-skinned
old rascal. He was not very low
able object and l would have about
as little trouble on my conscience
in killing him as any human being
I ever saw, but I felt like an access
sorry to a murder as we lowered him
into trench in my garden and
heard the plunk of the earth upon
his coffin. He was swathed with BAN
dages from head to foot. He had
drawn himself into q ball, and
rolled back his tongue into his
throat, stuffed his ears and nostrils
with soft wadding and was appar-
emily dead ten minutes after he be-
gan his final preparations.'
II put white guard over that
grave night and day for six months.
At the end of that time, as agreed,
the natives gathered together and
l sent for the officers of our mess
and we dug him up. If l had seen
Moses resurrected; if julius Caesar
were to walk down Pennsylvania
avenue, l would not be more aston
ished than l was when I saw that
fakir. He was covered with mold,
and, while perfectly inanimate, he
had not decayed.
I'm about three hours he had
fully recovered and was chanting
the praises of Buddha."
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
Rain That IL Not Wet.

A popularity common to rain in
the Bermudas, the Windward ISL
ands, the Hawaiian group, and the
Alaskan waters is that It isn't very
wet. In none of these regions do
the natives fear the rain, and even
foreigners soon come to know that
they take no harm from being out
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22

The KEysroxH IL the sole represeutak1ss
of the Great Upper Wood River. 1awtooth
and Smoky mining regions, and. loeseed
rs it is in the very heart OF the most prcua-
Using mining country on the face OF the
earth, and leaving ~othing undone to PEE
sent its readers 4 complete synopsis OF Al
mining news and >dexelopanents, as veil -
matters Of local importance n and about
Ketchum, it ds an invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler of every
craft and position. Subscribe for 1t, read
it, and let your friends readit
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
KETCHUM COUNTY IDAHO SATURDAY. APRIL 22

true love, will instinctively know
each other. Socrates dream will
come true, that be woald recognize
the sages to whose order he be-
longed. In other words, the only
ties that can endure death must be
real ones. Artificial ties may be
expected to snap.-From "After
Death-What?" by the Rev. Charles
F. Dole, in North American Review.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
JOAQUIN nILlER's VIEWS.
The Sierra Poet on the Future Destiny
of Humanity.

I am not wise or learned in
things to be, but will venture few
predictions. In the first place oul
government will be less complex
and go forward year after year with
less friction and better results-like
an improved machine. We will cut
off the foreign vote and the verdant
vote and the ignorant vote. AS we
grow better in body and mind ven-
erable men will have their place of
honor, as of old. If a good man
by temperance and healthful toll
and wise care preserves his body
and mind, like Gladstone, for exam
pie, he has saved the life of at least
one citizen, a brave thing to do of
old.
And it is not fit that such man
should be put in prize ring to
fight with lusty young adventurers
for Misplace in the senate. 1t is al
ready his by right. Let 10000 en-
tirely qualified voters, representing
at least 100000 people, send up to
the state capital their oldest man,
and it is all on the register. Let
the state then send to Washington
its two oldest Gladstones as senators.
and so on down to the justice of
the peace. What saving of time,
temper, manhood, money! When
we have grown a generation or two
of Thurmans Blaines, Gladstones,
we will leave elections in the hands
of God, where we found them. This
is my plan, my prophecy.
As for cities, we will build new
ones, pleasant, beautiful sites, as
men now build hotels. Even now
millions are waiting for those who
will build a new city, complete sew
ers, pipes, pavements, all things
complete and empty the unclean
and rotten old into the healthful and
pleasant new. We are going to
have great cities, such as have not
been. Whereabouts | don't know,
but all the world is going to town.
Machinery has emancipated man
from the field.
What about big fortunes? Well
/ think we will some day require
the bulk of the rich mans money,
when be is done with it, of course,
to build national parks with and in
other ways help the nation which
helped him to get hold of it.
As for literature, our writer's will
surely soon turn back to the orien-
tai or ideal, as against the realistic
school. and remain there. They can
not very we'll improve on the bible:
Aribian tales or Shakespeare.
Meanwhile the sensational and per-
sonal newspapers of to-day will dis
appear down the sluice and sewer
of Indie table instances.
Discoveries? Truly it seems to
me that very soon some new Col
umbus will come from among us to
launch his airships on the great
high seas and gulf streams that
surge and roll above us. Yet maybe
this faith is founded on what has
been rather than on any sign of
what is to be.
Who will be best remembered?
Why, Edison, of course. Yes, most
certainly we will be handsomer,
healthier, happier, too. and ergo
better, for man is not bad animal
at all if he only has half chance to
be good now, and to do good, too,
as never was known before. And
he will do his best with it. Let us
believe in him and trust him en-
tirely, for in that way is the good
God. JOAQUIN MILLER.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
The very Smallest Holes.

The smallest holes pierced by
modern machinery are l-lOOth
part of an inch in diameter. They
are bored through sapphiree, rubies
and diamonds by . machine in-
vented by one John Wennatlom,
which makes 220Q0 revolutions :
minute.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22

in storm. It was noted by men
on the ships lately patrolling Bering
Sea that q portion of the deck
slightly protected, dried out while
even in the midst of a shower, and
that wet clothing hung under q
sight shelter on deck dried in an
atmosphere apparently saturated
by hard rain.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-04-22
Notice of Forfeiture.


TO Jous W. PLArT, 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 TRAII. lode mining claim,
situated on the Smoky divide, about twen-
tty-two miles from kctchum, in Warm
Springs Creek mining district. Alturas
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
me same is $3.50, being one-half; and if
within ninety 90 days from the service of
ms M notice, or within ninety (9) days after
TINS notice by publication you fail or re-
fuse to contribute your proportion of such
expenditure as co-Qwner, your interest in
sald claim will become the property of the
Undersigned under the provisions of said
section 2324 FRANK J. LEMON.
ketchum.. idaho. July %, 1902.
First publication July 80, 1892.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-22
THE DRINK SACRIFICE.
Some of the Awful Work of the Rul
Demon.

Some Of the Awful Work of the Rum
Demon.
cat the entrance of one of our col
lege chapels lies nameless grave; that
grave covers the mortal remains of one
of its most promising fellows, ruined
through drink. | received not very
long ago letter from an old school fell
low, a clergyman, who, after long and
arduous labor, was in want of clothes,
and almost of food. l inquired the
cause; it was drink. A few weeks ago
wretched clergyman came to me in
deplorable misery, who had dragged
down his family with him into ruin.
What had ruined him? Drink. When
l was at Cambridge one of the most
promising scholars was a youth who,
years ago, died in a London hospital,
penniless, of delirium tremens, through
drink When l was at Kings college /
used to sit next to a handsome youth
who grew up to be brilliant writer;
he died in the prime of life, victim to
drink. / once knew an eloquent phi
lanthropist, who was a very misera BILE
man. The world never knew the curse
which was on him; but his friends
knew that it was drink. And why is
it that these tragedies are daily hap
pening? 1t is through the fatal fascina-
ton, the seductive sorcery of drink,
against which Scripture SO often warns.
1t is because drink is one of the surest
of the devils ways to man, and of
mans ways to the devil. '"-Archdea-
CON Earrar
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-22

filial attachments and blasts parental
hopes, and brings down mourning age
in sorrow to the grave.
1t produces weakness, not strength;
sickness, not health; death, not life.
1t makes wives, widows; children.
orphans: fathers, iends-and all OF
them paupers and beggars.
1t feeds rheumatism, nurses govt,
welcomes epidemics, invites cholera,
imparts pestilence and embraces COP
sumption.
1t covers the land with idleness, mig
cry and crime.
1t fills your jails, supplies your aims
houses and demands your asylums.
1t engenders controversies, fosters
quarrels and cherishes riots.
1t crowds your penitentiaries and
furnishes victims to your scatfolds.
1t is the lifeblood of the gambler, the
element of the burglar, the prop of the
highwayman and the support of the
midnight incendiary.
1t countenances the liar, respects the
thief, esteems the blasphemer.
1t violates obligations, reverences
fraud, and honors infamy.
1t defames benevolence, hates love,
scorns virtue and ISLANDERS innocence.
1t incites the father to butcher his
helpless offspring, helps the husband to
massacre his wife and the child to grind
the parricidal AK.
1t burns up men, consumes women
detests life, curses God and despises
Heaven.
1t suborns witnesses, nurses perjury
defiles the jury box and stains the judi
cial ermine.
1t degrades the citizen, debases the
Legislature, dishonors the statesmen
and disarms the patriot.
1t brings shame. not honor: terror. not
safety; despair, not hope; misery, not
happiness, and with the malevolence OF
a fiend it calmly surveys its frightful
desolation, and unsatistied with its
havoc it kills peace, ruins morals
blights confidence, Stays reputation
and wipes out national honor, ther
curses the world and laughs at it's ruin
1t does all that and more-it murder.
the soul.
1t is the sum of all villainies, the
father of all crimes, the mother of al
denominations, the devils best friend
and Gods worst enemy. "-Waterbury
Comm Weekly Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-22
VARIOUS NOTES.

You can generally tell by mans
tracks which way he is going. If they
point toward the saloon he is not on his
way to Heaven.
IN late debate in the German Reich
stag, it was stated that there are at
present 1000 persons in hospitals in
Germany who are suffering from delir-
ium tremens.
The average man in the United
States drank in 1892 1891 gallons of
malt liquors, 500 pounds of coffee, 1.3S
gallons distilled spirits, 1.33 pounds tea
and one-half gallon of wine.
Puck says: It's queer how the aver
age man, who takes long chances with
the miscellaneous drinkables which the
bar affords, worries dreadfully for fear
the drinking water his town supplies
him isn't absolutely pure.
THE rum-maker, the rum-seller and
the rum-drinker make tri o SO related
that they constitute the whole OF the
liquor traffic. And they are 50 related
that if any one of them should go out
of business, nothing would remain for
the other two.
KANSAS, with prohibition and one
hundred thousand more people than
Texas, has one penitentiary and nine
hundred and ninetysix prisoners
Texas, with saloons and one hundred
thousand less people than Kansas, has
two penitentiaries and three thousand
convicts
A BRAND of whisky has been adver-
tised called Horn of Plenty" A tenn
perance writer says the name has been
chosen wisely, for out of the thing
named shall come plenty of pow
erty, plenty of pain, plenty of sorrow,
plenty of shame, plenty of broken
hearts, hopes doomed and sealed, plen-
ty of graves in the potters field.
The numb Der of suicides in France
seem to bear an important relation
to the amount of alcohol consumed.
One hundred and thirty-seven suicides
to five hundred thousad hectolitres OF
alcohol from 1896 to 1910, and eight
hundred and siXty-eight suicids tc
l, 800. 900 hectolitress of alcohol in 1850
to 1885. tell their own story.
A BUSINESS women's temperance 80
ciety was recently formed in Mancbes-
ter England, by Miss Florence Balgar-
ME. under the auspices of Lady Henry
Somerset. The plan is to combine
good fellowship, instruction, education.
and healthy, innocent amusement with
temperance ideas, thus making up a
society which will attract the young
women and give them solidity of inter
est and purpose, and help them and
the temperance cause
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-06-22
FIRST DISTILLING APPARATUS.
Il Appeared In the Early Centuries of the
Present Era.

The decisive step in the knowledge
of distillation was taken in Egypt.
There were invented the first real dis
tilling apparatus during the first CEN
turtles of the Christian era. They are
described precisely In the works Of
Zosimus, an author of the the third
century, from the technical treatises
of two women chemists named Cleo
patra and Mary. In the margin of a
Greek text of st. Mary are the draw
ings of the apparatus, and they agree
exactly with the authors descriptions.
The apparatus consists of a boiler or
balloon-shaped receiver, in which the
liquid was put; but the cover was re-
placed by large tube topping the bal
loon, and ending above in cap shaped
like an inverted balloon, to serve as a
condenser. The cap was furnished
with lateral conical tubes inclined
downward, which were intended to
collect the condensed liquid and allow
it TO flow out into small bottles. All
the essential parts of distilling appa-
ratus are here defined. These lateral
tubes and their recipients constitute
the chief improvement, and are what
constitutes the alembic. Among the
distinctive characteristics Of the primi-
tive alembic described by Zosimus is
the multiplicity of the abductor tubes.
He distinguishes between two-beaked
and three beaked alembics. The flow
of vapor was simultaneous, though
there were several leaks, and conden-
sation took place in two or three res
ceivers at once. Another figure repre-
sents an alembic with a single beak, 90
which large copper tube was at
tached.-P. f. VI. Berthelot, in Popular
Science Monthly.