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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
RUSSIA'S UNHAPPY STATE.
Arguments as to the Danger of Lending
Money to Her.


Summing up the facts, says Darkest
Russia, we find that Russian finances
are based exclusively upon the sol
vency of the agricultural population
of the country; that these unfortunate
people are hopelessly insolvent and
are kept in state of chronic starva-
ton; that the corn Indispensable to
their existence is exported abroad;
that they live for half the year in the
air, sleeping on the bare ground, and
for the other half in hideous novels;
that they are obliged to sell their cat
tie and to burn the straw of their roofs
in order to prolong this horrible life,
and that they are physically degen-
Grating and becoming unfit for man.
ual labor; that the government, in
stead of attempting to improve their
miserable lot, blithely continues to
augment its budget in inverse proper
tion to their insolvency, fogging them
for arrears until they raise money at six
thousand per cent. interest; that even
under the most favorable circum-
stances agriculture is absolutely unre
munerative; that Russia does not pro-
duce single grain of superhuous corn,
and that mismanagementh has brought
about such an abnormal state of things
in the empire that a good harvest is
more ruinous than a failure of the
crops.
Lastly, that they who lend Russia
money, in the teeth of these indubit-
able facts, are not only making a
financially unsound investment, but
are rendering themselves morally re-
sponsible for the untold misery Of one
hundred million of their fellow men.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
Killed by q Cats Bite.

DR.. G.. Danford Thomas, says the
London Telegraph, held an inquest re-
Gently at the Hampstead dispensary
hall on the body of John Brown, aged
forty-eight, lately residing at Grove
place, Newend. The evidence showed
that the deceased suffered from rheu-
matism, but helped his wife III her
laundry work. On Tuesday afternoon
his cat was asleep in shed. Deceased
moved board in the building and it
was supposed he must have hurt the
animal, for it jumped up and bit him
on the back of the right hand. On
Wednesday deceased's hand and arm
became very much infamed and Mrs.
Brown poulticed the wound. On Thurs
day it got so much worse that Dr.
Murray was called in. He advised the
immediate removal of the man to the
Hampstead workhouse infirmary, where
he died early the following morning.
DR.. A. H. Cook, the medical officer OF
the institution, said the cause OF death
was acute blood poisoning following
the bite of cat. --
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
FAST YOUNG INDIA.
He Loves English Society Because OF the
Loaves and Fishes.

He Loves English Society Because OF the
Loaves and Fishes.
The Uindoo of Calcutta does not rep
resent an ancient tradition, for he IS
but thing of yesterday, called into
being by the foreigner, and he repre-
sents an altogether novel phase OF
thought, which is gradually making 1T
self felt, and is the chief characteristic
of what has been dubbed Young India.
Young India is the more or less Eu-
ropeanized Hindoo, says Harpers
Weekly. The supple mind OF the
Bengalese could not long remain lm-
pervious to the influence Of daily con-
tact with the European cast OF thought,
and all Hindoos are more or less al
fected by that contact. A European
education, the study of the classics and
of contemporaneous literature, OF an
:ient and modern history and OF the
natural sciences, could not fail to have
results on every stratum OF society
and culture has filtered down from the
university to every class, awaklng as
pirations and ambitions previously un-
known.
A new society has sprung up, OF
what may be termed Anglicized In
dians, which society, alas! is not al
ways recruited from the elite OF the
native population; the higher castles,
who cling to their traditions and re-
tain their pride of race, are generally
faithful to the culture of the past. The
masses who make up Young India are
not attached to European civilization
| bv any sense Of its superiority or by
| intellectual curiosity, but in search
of remunerative appointments. To get
| one of the inferior situations under the
government which are open to native
| baboos it is necessary to be able TO
speak and write English, and everyone
anxious to secure thirty rupees month
in some Office rushes to the universities
and public schools.
Three hundred candidates for place
worth some three pounds ten MONTH
/ And what becomes Of the two hun
dred and ninety-nine who fail and can
no longer live the simple natural life
| of their forefathers? They must die OF
hunger or swell the ranks of polls
ticians, and they choose the latter al
tentative. Proud Of the superficial
knowledge they have acquired and
pri1ned with European catchwords, the
meaning of which have long since faded
away, they form a huge unbiased
mass uncommmly like the lower
middle classes of Europe -as noisy, as
unreasonable, as narrow-mlnded, and
in some rare instances, as dlslnterest
(, ed as those with whom we are all ia
miliar, with the difference that the
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
GEO. j. LEWIS, Agent.
Notice Of Forfeiture.

To JOHN w. PLATT, his heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that have eX-
pended the sum of five hundred (5O0) dol
lars in labor and Improvements upon the
BEER TKAII. lode mining claim,
situated on the Smoky divide, about twen-
ty-two miles from ketchum, in Warm
Springs Creek mining district. Alturas
county. Idaho, as required by section 2524,
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
the same. is $3.50, being one-halt; and II
within ninety (9) days from the service. OF
this notice, or within ninety (9) days after
this notice by publication you fail or re-
fuse toscontribute your, proportion OF such
expenditure as co-owner, your interest IN
said claim will become the property OF the
undersigned under the provisions OF sald
section 1924, FRANK J. LEMoN.
ketchum.. Idaho, July 20, 1892.
First publication July 30, 1892.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
BRlGANDS AND HiGhWAYMEN
Better Police Protection In Rural Dis
tricts Needed.


Better Police Protection In Rural Dis
tricts Needed.
Most Americans cherish the singular
superstition that brigandage and high
way robbery are only possible in de-
praved backward countries like Spain,
Sicily or Greece, and that ap English
speaking country with-,courts and the
common law must necessarily be free
from these pests.
This is nonsense, says the Philadel-
phia Press. Brigands, footpads and
highwaymen will spring up in any
land where an efficient police is alb
sent They swarmed over England
century and half ago, they were
frequent in France little earlier,
and they were to be found over
most of Europe in the last CEN
tury. They are certain to appear in
this country and become widespread
pest unless there is radical change
in the American habit of keeping the
peoples peace.
At present, it is left to keep itself.
Great tracts of this country are left
| without any protection to travel, ex-
| cept the sheriff and the constable.
City people have very little idea Of the
insecurity which exists in many Amer
| lean rural districts. There are many
counties in New York state, and some
doubtless in this state, where it would
not be considered prudent for an unat-
tended woman to walk in broad day
along a lonely country road. The
| farms on which farmers are in con-
slant fear of tramps can be numbered
by the thousand. While abroad, even
in countries like Spain and Italy, the
rural districts are given the benefit of
police patrol paid for by taxes or by
| the wealth and trade of the cities,
here our thinly settled farming neigh
borhoods are left to protect themselves
as best they can.
The wonder is, not that train is
now and then held up, but that this
does not happen great deal oftener.
Depend upon it, these modern high
way, robberies in the shape Of train
robberies will go increasing until our
states establish permanent rural
police.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
Changing ChirOgraphy.

The changes in fashionable hand
writing during the past ten years have
been marked. Young girls OF to-day
write in large and usually firm char.
acters, while a surprising number OF
Young men, not trained to clerkliness
and struggling between several recog-
nized standards of a good masculine
handwriting, produce letters OF singu-
larly childish style of penmanshlp. But
leaving out these conditions OF youth
and transition with their more or less
fascinating suggestions of equal
change in the intellectual fashions OF
young men and maidens, there is an
inexhaustible interest in the study
of mature handwriting, from the
point of view of the subtle
clairvoyant interviewer of other
peoples minds and methods. For
example, most literary men nova
days write small hand The phrase
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04

The KEYSTONE is the sole Representatives
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 on the face .of the
earth, and leaving nothing undesse TO pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis of AN
mining news and developments, as well rs
matters of local Importance in and about
Ketchum, it is an Invaluable guide for cap
ital and informantte the settler Of every
craft and position. Subscribe for it, reau
it, and let your friends read it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04

formulas they are SO proud OF are bor-
rowed from the traditions OF an exotlc
civilization, and that for them there is
wider gulf than ever between the
letter and the spirit. What they aim
at is, in truth, neither national inde-
pendence nor local autonomy under
the English protectorate; it is simply
access to the higher administrative
functions and political domination
over other castles, with the English
army at their backs.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
A Girls Ideal.

A girl never marries her ideal. One
reason is that she seldom finds him,
anG when she does she doesn't like
him. Another reason is, the material
man is SO dreadfully unlike the one OF
her imagination. A girl is an lncon-
sistent creature, anyway. AS sure as
she fashions the idol of her minds eye
as a great, fierce, blacl1-mustached,
brigandish-looling individual, the end
will be promise to love and obey
some meek, freckled, red-haired per-
son who cannot forget his affection for
chocolate caramels and football scrim-
images. Most dreadful is the fate cf
the little woman who admires the jolly
man who can laugh at papcrwcight
biscuits and boiled beefsteak, for she
invariably falls head over heels in love
with some solemn, stately man whose
very photograph makes her dumb with
silent awe.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
SONGS OF YESTERDAY.

Some OF the Popular Airs Which We
Have Sung and Tired OF.
A western paper has compiled sort
of history of the catchy popular airs
which have been sung during our time
or when our parents were young The
list is interesting.
A few weeks ago, says the writer,
the favorites in the way of songs were
eta Ra-Ra-Boom-De -De-A," Comrades
and s'The Bogey Man" 1t is curious
fact in connection with ''Ta-Ra-Ra-
Boom-De-A" that some months ago
the writer sailed away from Liver
pool, England, and the last thing he
heard was that song, and on reaching
New York harbor the first thing to
greet him as a welcome to his own
country was the same song, sung by
coal HEAVIER on the dock. He might
have alluded here to the run OF MY
Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon"
and ssAfter the Ball"
Prior to the advent of the before
mentioned songs, he continues, we had
a long siege of 'sLittle Annie Rooney
and s'Maggie Murphy's Home" Then
we had before these a lengthy attack
of "Down Went McGinty," and before
this a number of Harrigan g. Hart's
theater comique songs, such as "Mulll-
gan Guards" "Maj. Gilfeather" and
others similar in style. Then preced-
ing this era we had 'sPeel1-a-Boo" and
.La-di-Dah." Before this 'Whoa, En-
mar' champagne Charlie" capt.
Jinls," ssShoo Fly and "Not for Joe, "
Al
pretty we'll mixed up with sentimental
songs of the ''Put Me in My Little
Bed, and "Silver Threads Among the
Gold" .sNorah O'Neil," ''Lillie Dale
and 'sCome Where My Love Lies Dream
ing" type.
During the war of the rebellion how
well the writer remembers the songs
he heard, being then boy. He saw
the soldiers marching by the house
where he lived, and listened with
bated breath to the songs they sung, OF
soTramp, Tramp, the Boys Are March
ing" Orally Round the Flag" John
Browns Body" and marching Thro'
Georgia" and then the different style
of songs sung by the women folk at
home, such as "Brave Boys Are They
soThe Vacant Chair" "Mother, Dear,
Your Boy Is Wounded" or "Tenting
Tonight" or "When This Cruel War Is
Over" or the more humorous ones OF
s.The Captain With His Whiskers Took
a Slv Glance at Me" or "The Bold Sol
dier Boy"
The songs before that period were
| different from any since. The names
of some of these were, "Ron on Silver
Moon," "Ben Bolt" ''The Old Oake1
Bucket" ''The Indian Boys Lament,
''The Irish Emigrant's Lament" ant
ssHard Times Come Again No More.
These must have been rather dolefu
times. There was another song quite
popular at that time, called "Crue
Barbara Allen" SO the writer has beer
told. But this is about the extent O.
his knowledge on the song question.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
An Ingenious Toad.

Ascientific journal tells this story OF
a frogs cunning: A brood OF chickens
was fed with moistened meal in sau-
GERS, and when the dough soured lit
tie it attracted large number o.
flies. An observant toad had evident
ly noticed this, and every day TOWARD
evening he would make his appearance
in the yard, hop to saucer, climb in
and roll over and over until he was
covered with meal, having done which
he awaited developments. The dies,
enticed by the smell, soon swarmed
around the scheming batrachian, and
whenever one passed within two
inches of his nose his tongue darted
out and the fly disappeared. The plan
worked SO well that the toad made p
regular business e. it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
ALEXANDER AND CLEOPAT RA.
Discovery Of the Tombs OF Those Great
Celebrities of Antiquity.

DIacoyerv of the Tombs OF Those Great
Celebrities of Antiquity.
wrote you from London, says cor
RESPONDENT of the Boston Advertiser, OF
the discovery in Alexandria six weeks
ago of the tombs of Alexander and
Cleopatra. Here is the letter sent to
Aberdeen which describes the remark
able find:
''The tombs are intact and no doubt
as the excavations proceed the tombs
of all the Ptolemies will be brought to
light. There is no doubt about the
matter, as the names of the occupants
are over the doors. The doors are of
bronze and covered with Greek in
scriptions. Here and there the bronze
has corroded, so that with the aid OF a
magnesium light they could see the
marble sarcophagi and lots of other
things in the rooms. Some OF the
vaults seem to be full of rolls and
parchments, but this is mere guess
work on the part of the observers. All
will be cleared up when the khedive
returns from Constantinople as he is
to superintend the opening of Alexan-
der's and Cleopatra's tombs.'
DIR. Grant Bey, the writer of the let
ter dated June II, goes on to say:
ssLots of beautiful vases and gold
things have been found, and a most
beautifully executed stella, in whose
tomb they found a crown of gold. My
information is at first hand, because |
had long conversation with the pro-
prietor of the land and the manager OF
the digging this afternoon. In the
course of digging the Greek gentle
man came upon a pit that led down to
series of vaults thirty feet below the
surface. These are the tombs of the
Ptolemies and the one exposed to view
is that of Cleopatra. The others have
| still to be excavated, but they are
there-only all the passages are filed
with earth. Twenty feet deeper. and
only six feet above sea level, is Alex
ander's tomb, all by itself, only there
are some chambers near it filled with
rolls and parchments-i other words,
a library of ancient books"
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literary men is very sweeping in this
connection and is by no means limited
to the producers of pure literature in
this country. In that case there
would be next to nothing to say, es-
pecially if the literature produced was
restricted to that genuinely imbued
with style. Literary men in this
sense means also all men who have
the power and also most surprising
knack in returning to others of the
craft their own ambitious productions.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
THE sCHooLMA'AM OF TO-DAY.
Mr.. Jaspcr Tells How She Differs from
Her Predecessors.

Mr.. Jasper Tells How She Differs from
Her Predecessors.
New York employs 4,G51 schoolteach-
ers. In. this grand army Of martyrs
there are 3,053 women.
OF this number 1870 fill principalships;
each has lieutenant; the rest OF the
2.673 are assistants. Some OF them
teach school and some of them tight"
school, but they all earn the far from
large salaries paid by the wealthiest
city in the new world.
John Jasper, superintendent of pub
lie instruction, who has every one Of
these Learned ladies' on his list of ac-
quaintances, was asked by a New York
World reporter how the teachers of
1898 compared with their sisters OF
1885,
'.They are better" he replied; "much
etter."
ssIn what particnlar?"
''In every particular"
'sAre they better looking?"
''They are better trained, better man
nered. better dressed and better look
in than the teachers of decade ago.
Physically, Mr.. Jasper thought that
the young teacher was far superior 10
her senior associate; that she was
abreast of the time; that physical cul-
ture had done as much for her as for
any other class of progressive women;
that she knows something besides book
learning; that she is sympathetic,
conscientious, and, best OF all wona-
anly.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
Notice of Forfeiture.


To ]. P. TULLY. his heirs and assigns:
,Yor are hereby notified that have eX-
pended the sum of one hundred (1OO) dol
lars in labor and improvements upon tne
YOUNG AMERICA
lode mining claim, situated in Little Smoky
district, Alturas county, State OF ldaho, IN
orderto hold said premises under the pro.
the United States, being the amount re-
CURED to hold the same for the year end
ing December 81, 1892; that your proper
ton of the same is $40, being one-tenth |;
and If within ninety (90l days from the
service of this notice, or within ninety (9O)
days after this notice by publication you
iall or refuse to contribute your proportion
OF such expenditure, including costs OF
publication, your interest in said claim
VIII become the property Of the under
signed under the provisions of said section
1924. JOHN GORMAN
First publication: Jrne II; 1898
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1893-11-04
PROFESSIONAL.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-24
Holly Bend Happenings

HOLLY BEND, Aug. 21.-Crops look well here, especially cetton, and we are making preparation for the long-haired pickers from the Boston mountains.
 W. 0. Elam is teaching school st Ples- ant grove and Henry Ferguson at Shinn's church, both giving satisfaction. =. Tom Whitesides returned from Ore gon on the 20th after sojourn of nine months. Boys and girls alike welcome him back. They all return sooner or later. John Collins and Frank Oates started to Texas about week ago, but they only started, there was too much attraction here to leave. Willie Fer guson is searching through the yocabu- lary for masculine name to bestow on his heir. He has decided on Billy" for the present. Protracted meeting at Pleasant Grove this week under the charge of Rev. c. W. Boyles. T. B.
The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-24

DID it ever strike you that when ever and wherever a man gets dol lar honestly he gives A dollars worth of labor or something else worth dollar for it, Hence dol lar should be a fixed measure of val ne. The United States. and in fact all civilized nations, have used gold and silver as their money met als. The demonetization of silver by the congress of the United States contracts the supply of legal tender money, hence the depreciation Of values and frequent financial dis turbances since 1873. Let our gov. ernment give us remonetized silver equal to the demands of healthy business and financial furries will be less frequent.
The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-24
Mortga ge Sale.

By virtue of a certain mortgage with power of sale executed to me on the 4th day of February, 1899, by John A. Er- win and Belle Erwin, his wife, of the town of Russellville, Pope county, to se- cure certain promisory note with even date with said mortgage for the sum of S665.0O, with interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum from date until paid and on said note there are credits amounting to s43.33, I will on Saturday the 9th day of September. 1893, at the courthouse door in Russellyille. Pope county, Ark, between the hours for ju- dicial sales, proceed to sell the following real estate lying and situated on Long street, in the town of Russellville, Pope county, Ark, viz Lots and 1. Q and 10, In block |, Luker's addition to the town of RussellviIle.
 Terms of sale: Cash in hand:
 R.J. WILSON. Mortgagee.
The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-24
Mortgage Sale.

By Y rtue of d certain mortgage with pow CT of sale, executed to me on the 18th day of No- vember, 1889, by Mrs. s. Nj. Perry, {, I the town of RussellviIlc, Pope county. Ark, to secure the payment of certain promissOry note. of even date with said mortgage, for the sum of three hun IT. dollars tS300). with int rest at 10 per cent per annum from date til paid, and on said note there are credits amounting to fifty four and 20 100 dollars ($54 20l, will on Saturday, the 2d da. of Septem CT, is93, at the south entrance of tte courthouse in Rus 1 seliville, Pope county, Ark, between the hours for judicial sales, proceed to sell the fol- lowing real estate lying and situated on Oak street. m the town of Russellyille, Pope coun- ty, Ark, yz-: Commencing in the north east corn CT of the southwest quarter Of northwest quarter of section nine t9), township north ranPe 20 west.running due west 232 feet, thence south 1S74 feet, and cornoring in the branch, thence due east 232 feet to ShiDn's line. thence thence due north with Shinn's line 1875. feet to place of beginning, containing one acre, more or less. with all the appurtrnances thereunto belonging. Sale for cash in hand.
 Said premises having been offered for sale one year previously to this sale, ant having failed to bring two thirs.s of the valuation of the same as provided by law. there was no sale now therefore they will be sold without regard to valuation, to the high est bidder, for cash in hand to secure tho pay ment of said note and interest thereon due, with all the costs of sale of said property.
 J. W. PRUITT, Mort gagee.