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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-06-02

ance for dress and other expenses, and
the young and pretty women generally
get all their clothes from Paris,
though many are still content with
the old-fashioned Turkish dress, which
is not unlike our own tea gowns.
They wear no wells in the house, and
they usually wear their hair in short
loose curls, upon which is often worn
q smart little toque ornamented with
jewels or white aigrette.
The great distinction which they all
covet is the decoration of ''the three
tails" which is only conferred on the
greatest ladies of the palace or some
special favorite. These tails are COM
posed of plated hair, not unlike the
Chinese pigtail, though shorter, as it
only reaches little below the waist.
To have even one of these tails is q
great honor, while the bestowal of all
three will go far to make the recipient
. proud and happy woman for life.
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AetlAcial Petroleum.

One of the latest chemical discoveries
is method for the artificial produc-
ton of petroleum. The process is SIM
ple and effective. 1t is the distillation
of animal fats and oils at tempera-
ture of three hundred TO four hundred
degrees centigrade at pressure OF
twenty-five atmospheres in strong
iron vessel. About seventy per cent.
of the fatty matter is transformed into
petroleum, this being ninety per cent.
of the theoretical yield. The discov-
cry is not of any commercial inn
portance up to date as the arti-
ficial product costs great deal
more than the natural product OF
the rock. But for aught anyone is
justified in saying to the contrary all
this NAV be changed within the next
few wears by the use OF cheaper basic
material, or because of the increased
scarcity of petroleum, or both. The
mater, in any event, is one OF great
scientific interest. 1t tends to show
how the natural article has been pro-
duced by the process of nature, while
It may prove to be the starting point IN
an investigation that will lead up 70
other discoveries having more prac-
tical bearing.
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A NEW PAIR OF EARS.


1emarknble Feat In Surgery Performed
by . French Physician.
At the Bicetre hospital in Paris, says
the London Daily News, the we'll.
known surgeon, NJ. Landry, lately per.
formed . curious operation on work
man of Belgium nationality. The
Belgian, it appears, got drunk . short
time ago and was taken to the police
station at Gentilly when In state Of
utter helplessness While he was In
the cells another sdrunkard, . mechan-
ical engineer named Maohant, was
brought in in . state bordering on
delirium tremenA Machant was In .
terribly excited state and he attacked
his fellow prisoner with extraordinary
ferocity, striking him, and, horrible to
relate, biting on both his earA
When he came to himself Machant
became very penitent and asked to b
taken to the bedside Of his victim. who
was now IN the Bicetre hospital. In
order t. ask his forgiveness D..
Landry, who was there sid: "6hould
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-06-02

The KEYsroxr Is the sole representative
of the Great Upper Wood River. Sawtooth
and Smoky mining regions, and, iocatsd
as it is in the very heart Of the most prom
ising mining country on the face OF the
earth, and leaving nothing pndone 70 pre-
sent its readers complete synopsis ot IA
mining news and developments, - well -
matters Of local importance in and about
Ketchum, 1t is an invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler OF every
craft and position. Subscribe Cor it, read
it, and let your friends read it.s
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-06-02
INCREASE IN TENANT FARMING
Figures Which Show tho Growing Power
Of the Mlssissippi valley.

Figures Which Show the Growing Power
Of the Mississippi valley.
The percentage of farm-hiring fami-
lies in Iowa in 1890 was 29.57. The per-
centage of hired farms in Illinois in
1880 was 31.3S; the figures for 1890 are
not yet published, but the growth of
tenancy in other states indicates that
the percentage will not be less than
40. Between 1880 and 1890 Wisconsin
gained $3.50 owning cultivators and
1877 tenant cultivators; Iowa gained
only 1851 owning cultivators and 49,
563 tenant cultivators. The percent
age of tenancy in Minnesota increased
from 9.15 to 1925. In Nebraska the
percentage of tenancy was l8. OF in 1890
The figures for 1890 are not out, but
the area cultivated by tenants Of the
state increased from o53, ,6S8 acres in
1884 to 1 ,497, ,470 in 1890, and A. F. Bent
ley's monograph on Harrison, Neb..
taking that as typical western farm
community, showed that OF 135 owners
of the land in that township, fifty-one
had never been resident in the town,
and ten had lived there and moved
away; 12, 900 acres in that town were
cultivated by owners and $500 by ten
ants. Between 1850 and 1854 the num-
Der of Michigan farms cultivated by
owners diminished seventy-four and
the number of rented farms increased
3,454. What do these facts indicate?
According to the New York CONNER
cial Bulletin they indicate that where
rs twenty or thirty years ago the cul-
tivators of the soil had all the prod
ucts, . considerable and growing frac-
ton of the farmers of the west. as we'll
as of New England, New Jersey and
the south, now, with the prices of
produce lower than they used to be,
divide the products with the owners Of
the land.
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GEO. ]. LEWIS, Agent.


10 JOHN W. PLArr, his heirs or assigns:
You are hereby notified that have ex-
pended the sum of five hundred (5OO) dol
GNY lars IN labor and improvements upon the
DEER TRAIL lode mining claim,
situated on the Smoky divide, about twen-
tE'two miles from ketchum, 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
ior the years ending December 81, 1887, to
december 81, 1891; that your proportion Of
,r.,:e ,Ge same is $3.50, being one-half; and if
,Lia N,!iiln ninety 90 days from the service OF
ms .hi notice, or within ninety (9) days after
tnis notice by publication you fail or re-
arS auss 70 contribute your proportion of such
sAPehditure sa as cO-owner. your interest in
nma sa,1 claim will become the property Of the
Section 1921 FRANK I LEMON.
AetShum.. Idaho. July %, 1892.
FIRST publication July 30. 1892.
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SLIM SALARIES.
The Kind Of Pay Upon Which Some Meth
odlst Preachers Must Live.

The Kind OF Pay Upon Which Some Meth
odist Preachers Must Live. &!
Methodist preachers are proverbially
an i'll paid lot, and they always feel
that the phrase ''as poor as church
mouse" applies with peculiar fitness to
them. 1t is one of the denominations
frequent assertions, however, that its
WORK is largely among the poor people,
who cannot afford to give their pas
tors large salaries. In the old days
when living was cheap the salaries
were really not so small in proportion
to the living expenses as they are
now. Then Methodist parson with a
salary of four hundred dollars could, if
he had country pastorate. live COM
fortably, keep horse, send his nine or
ten children to school and manage to
lay by a penny for rainy day. There
are plenty of the "old stagers" left
among the Methodist preachers who
went through those times, and who
are now living frugally on the amount
which they laid by. Salaries among
the Methodists have advanced some
what, but they are still extremely low.
The country parsons look upon their
city brethren as rolling in wealth and
luxury, vet not single Methodist pas
tor even in New York city receives as
high a salary as five thousand dollars q
year. This seems incredible, but. &C.
cording to the New York Tribune, it is
q fact, though it must be remembered
that parsonage is almost always pro-
vided and is furnished in some way or
other, comfortable or uncomfortable.
1t is not until one comes to the coun-
try districts that the really meager sal
aries are found. The case of the
preacher who applied for full connec-
ton with the recent conference at
Brooklyn is still fresh. Somebody got
up and said that the applicant owed
money, and so ought not to be allowed
to come in. Then committee found
out that the man had only three hun
dred dollars year salary; that out of
this sum he had to support himself and
keep horse, and on Sundays had to
ride thirty or forty miles to preach.
They decided to let him in. It is some
times the case that the country preach
er's salary is eked out by q ''do-
nation" from his kind-hearted parish
toner's. They flock to the parsonage in
body some night, bring enough sand
wiches and cakes and pies and cider to
enjoy themselves thoroughly, turn the
house upside down, leave few clothes,
provisions and, perhaps, a little money,
and then GO home with the impression
that they have provided a winters
supply of food for the dominie's fam
lily, and have done altogether the neat
thing.
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~. +. TuLLY, his heirs and assigns:
,o lou are hereby notified that have ex.
funded the sum of one hundred 1907 dol
In labor and improvements upon the
YOUNG AMERICA
d;st. Gse INNING claim, situated in Little Smoky
nrSaat, Strlct, Alturas county, State of Idaho, in
yisanso 70 mold said premises under the pro-
tho theTns Tt: OF section 1924, Revised Statutes of
,an;,o S United States, being the amount re-
inu ina ~ 70 hold the same for the year end
ton Descember os 81, 1892; that your proper
anS @ - - me same is $40, being one-tenth; /;
service s.c Of this notice. or within ninety (9o)
IA fYis 80 after this notice by publication you
Of ,vat vi tteiuse to contribute your proportion
publ;caat biSca !; expenditure, including costs Of
sin 1SSstion, your interest In said claim
sisn.SSe SSecome the property OF the under
Ss@i. s Pfos sNms ~ se31 seCs1on 4 -
Raat publication, June II, 1898.
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P,orAll DECORATIONS.

Grooteot Hoooe That the Oulto0 C3nfofG
Upon His Wives.
It IL only on rare and special occa-
sions that ladies are permitted to visit
the sultan's harem; it is considered .
very great privilege, and few beneath
the rank of m ambassadress can ever
aspire to it.
There are Z great number Of ladies
ii the harem, some Of them being very
beautiful. Each has her own allow
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A FISH STORY.
Who Says Il epoils Your Luck to Let .
Fish Get AWay3

Who says Il spoi's Your Luck to Let .
Fish Get Away3
"As soon as it gets . little warmer, :"
said the deacon, who had come up from
Broome county for . few days, 'I'm
going to make trip to my favorite
fishing ground in the Susquehanna,
just below Binghampton," quotes the
New York Journal.
"One year ago I was fishing there
one day with my son-a young man
who thinks he can catch more fish than
I, but who cannot-when got a whop-
ping big bite-that is, it was fair bite.
The fish dove underneath some snags
in the river, and lost him and also my
hooks and nearly all my line.
''The next day tried the same place
again. Pretty soon had bite, the
funniest feeling bite ever met.
pulled up till my hook was out of the
water and there was no fish, but the
bite was there. I couldn't believe my
nerves. pulled up some more. Now,
what do you suppose found?"
"Why, of course you found you had
caught the fish that got away with
your line the day before"
"There!" said the deacon, triumph
antly. II thought you would say
that. And you are right, too. But
that is nothing. My fish, q fine perch,
had got free from the snag and by his
peculiar method of wabbling the other
hook along had done just the right
thing to attract the attention of a
monster black bass. 1 remembered
that bass very well. had fshed for
him many time, but the perch was a
better fisherman than I, for he caught
him and never had even fairly hooked
him, although he had often taken my
bait.
"Well, those two fish, when they
saw how it was, must have fixed it up
between them to put up job on some
body else. almost think they delib-
erately worked morsel Of angleworm
from one of the hooks out on to the
yard line between them, and then
1oated around with the line stretched
taut until they got bite, for, when !
pulled up, there was my perch on one
hook, my old friend, the bass, Topping
on the other hook, and between them,
squirming and twisting and making q
bustling big gimlet of himself, was an
eel, as large as my arm. He had shut
his teeth so tight on the line that he
couldn't let go. Yes, sir, there they
were, all three of 'em. Now, what do
you think Of that?''
Wonderful, wonderful! How much
did the eel weigh?"
"Why, he had ought to have weighed
three pounds. should think"
"Ought to have weighed! Didn't you
weigh hlm?"
"Well, no. You see, just as got
those three fish almost up to the pier I
was fishing from, the line broke and
they all went 'slup' back into the water.
That's one of the reasons why am 60
ing to fish there again this year.
hope to find out how many fish the
three have caught by this time"
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you like to give him back'his ears?'
Certainly" said the man. "Then, !,
said the doctor, "let me cut couple OF
small slips of flesh from your arm and
it can be DONE" The man consented
and the doctor did as he had suggested.
The pieces Of flesh he shaped as well
as he could to the likeness of pair OF
ears and joined them to the wounded
places. According to the latest &C.
counts the operation has been . COM
nlefe succeSS
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EXPENSES ABROAD.
All Things Considered. Living Costs {
Much in Europe ~ Here.

All Things Considered, Living Costs ~
Much in Europe ~ Here.
Railway fares, unless one travels in
slow trains and miserably in third
class cars, are more expensive in Eu.
rope than in the United States, and
the accommodation is inferior, writes
+. B. Loomis in Lippincott's. For q
sleeping-car berth from Paris to Nice
one pays eighteen dollars; in America
one may travel from New York to Chi.
cago, a greater distance, in sleeping
car for five dollars.
Life in good European hotels costs as
much as it does in good hotels in
America, but travellers may be indie.
pendent and get cheap accommoda-
ton in third-class hotels, it they like;
they will be badly lodged and fed.
Open-air music, beer. wines and COM
mon cigars cost less in Europe than in
America, but good theaters, = first
class opera and excellent cigars are
quite as expensive abroad IS at home.
Servants wages are lower here, but
experience proves that one good Amer
ican servant does the work of two Eu-
ropeans, and does it more simply and
neatly.
( Street-car fares are about the same
in Europe as in America. Many medi-
cines, such as quinine, for instance,
are very much dcarer.
The real difference in favor of Eu-
rope is that one may, If one chooses,
adipst the standard of living to ones
income. Economy is respected in Eu-
rope and is considered respectable,
whereas in America this is not always
the case. In Europe, even people Of
considerable means may live simply
and economic in a way that at home
would excite unpleasant comment.
Here it is accepted as matter Of
c0urfe
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ENGLAND'S PAUPERS.
Misery and Want Revealed By
Government Statistica


The remarkable fact that through
out the whole of England and Wales
there were at the end of last year
twenty-four paupers existing on gov
ernment charity in every thousand OF
the population, is contained in q great
mass of statistics on pauperism re-
Gently issued by the poor relief depart
ment of the British government. The
exact percentage was 24.5 paupers per
1000 of population. There was great
increase of pauperism during the year,
many thousands of people, owing to
the general business depression, being
driven to ask for relief for the first
time in their lives, and the officially
recorded proportion of pauperism
reached the highest point in many
years. The proportion was smallest in
1891, when it was 1872 to the 1000 popu-
lation. This is remarkable fact in
itself, as indicating the normal amount
of extreme pauperism in England, for
the record is only of paupers applying
for government relief.
It is a curious fact, says the New
York Sun, that the proportion of
paupers to population is smaller in
London than throughout the rest of
England and Wales. But there has
been q great increase and continued
growth of pauperism in the metropolis
in recent years which is causing q
great deal of anxiety. In the second
week of last December there were 1O6.-
376 paupers in London, which was
equivalent to 24.3 per 1000 of the whole
population. This was 1926 more pau
pers than were receiving relief in the
city in the corresponding week of the
previous year, and greater number
than in any year since 1879.
The proportion of pauperism in Lon
don was the highest in the years 1867
and 1869. when it reached 47.8 and 49,
respectively to the 1000 of population.
But these were years of exceptional
depression, and the astounding figures
have never been reached in any other
year since the Inauguration of the
present system of statistics. The low
est point was reached in 1891, when the
proportion of paupers was 22.4 per 1000
of population. Since that year there
has been q steady growth of pauper-
ism in the metropolis, and at such q
rate and with such coincident circum-
stances as to be the cause of much
anxiety to the authorities and mat
ter of great public concern.
But these figures are of the pauper-
ism only that comes to official notice,
and the record takes no account Of the
vast amount of poverty that is relieved
by private charity and through other
than government sources. To ''go on
the parish is the last and much
dreaded resort of the honest poor, only
to be availed OF in direst extremity,
and the coroners' records show that
many unfortunates have died of actual
starvation rather than thus apply for
public charity. More than dozen of
such sad cases are noted on the official
returns of inquests held in London
alone during last year. So that the
startling showing of twenty-four pau
pers in every thousand inhabitants is
only part Of the picture of poverty in
England.
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ENGLISH "RED TAPE"

How an appointment with An M. r. In the
House OF Commons Was Kept.
English fred tape! is queer thing,
says q writer in the New York
Herald. More than once I ran foul
Of it within the sacred precincts
of the British house of commons.
I once had an engagement to
meet an Irish NJ. P. there some If
teen minutes before the house opened.
l handed my card to the blue-coated
functionary who guarded the entrance
corridor, with the request that he hand
it to the NJ. P. in question.
'Sorry, sir" said he, II cawn't do It.
There hain't hany messengers'ere yet,
an my horders is not to take in hany
cards myself"
Persuasion and entreaty were alike
wasted upon him. Having had pre-
vious experience Of the potent influ-
ence of q shilling or two judiciously
bestowed, attempted bribery. But
he proved to be incompatible.
The situation was embarrassing and
annoying. My engagement concerned
q matter of some importance, to myaslf
at least. I knew that the NJ. P. was,
within few hundred feet of me, and
here was l, as effectually prevented
from getting at him by barrier OF
''red tape" as If there stretched stone
walls and iron bars between uA -
At last l bethought me that thero
was telegraph Office in the rotunda.
Just few yards away. I rushed TO It
and in hot haste indicted this message:
.Iam here, but the blank fo6l.oG \ doorkseper
won't take my card to yows
The clerk grsvely took mynneassge.
/ paid a. much for its transmission -
if it had been directed to somebody In
the most remote corner Of the BTitish
isles. A telegraph boy, being privi-
legged to pass the doorkeeper. conveyed
it to the representative Of . somewhat
turbulent constituency. He responded
immediately, and had the ssttsfse-
tion Of knowing that FOX once had
English ':red tape"
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This Was true Courage.

As was walking along the street,
writes correspondent, the other day,
saw bright little fellow quietly
playing with his sister. Presently a
much larger boy came up and shaking
his fists in the little fellows face
asked: '.Ain't you afraid of me?"
'No, sir" was the quick reply.
"But can lick ye," continued the
big boy, threateningly.
Il know that" returned the little
hero. ~ he straightened proudly mp
and looked the intruder squarely in
the face, ''but amt s{faid df ye, just
the same.
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RED MANS JiG-WATER.

| The Beer Permitted BY the Supreme
Court VIII Probably Be sti6ened.
That the supreme court of the United
| States knows q great deal about law,
and very little about Indians, is the
way George Burt, late of Winnebago,
Dakota county, Nebraska, sums up the
recent decision that lager beer is not a
spirituous liquor and that traders may
sell it to the Indians without being
held liable for violating the law which
has been on the statute books for SO
many years. Burt has been away from
the Indian country for five years, but
his eighteen years experience on the
frontier enables him to speak as one
with authority.
II have been knocking about the
tenderloin precinct now for four
years." said he to reporter for the
New York Mail and Express, "and
have . pretty fair idea Of the effect of
lager on the white man, and know
how to make q comparison with
the effect on IN Injun. Be-
twixt you, me and the lamp
post, I've got no scruples agin sellin'
anything to the noble red man, as you
call him here in the east, and would
just as lief let him have quart of rat
pizen as . plug hat. providin' he had
the price. But that isn't the idee-
what mean is that the gowns of the
supreme court is longer than their
heads. guess they don't know how
many bars they've let down on the
pasture lot. Never saw 4 Cherokee
full of jig-water, did you? Well, l
have, and of all the whooping, howl
ing, rip-snortin', cut-and-come-again
terrors, q drunken Injun wins every
time. He is just plumb crazy, that's
al, and would as quick cut his
squaw's throat as he would anybody's
who happened to be handy. Now.
this lettin' 'em drink lager is all wrong.
Know why? Well, what's to prevent
doctorin' it up with little alcohol or
whisky? If it comes out Of beer keg
suppose it's all right, and just as soon
as Mister Injun knows he can get bit
ter irewater that will make drunk
come quick he will take to beer. As
it is now, he won't touch it, cause it
amt strong enough. Say, would just
like to see the whole supreme court out
on the reservation when the agency
store starts in selling doctored lager,
'eause that's the game - sure - gums
iron-I'u bet there would be some fun.
You can just bet , hatful of dollars
that when they got back to Washing
ton that law would be wiped out
quicker'n Z spider jumps n.y."
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BEEF, PORK, MUTTON,

~ Prompt attention given to town and
country orders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-06
WANTED-HELP.
'I,IA.

WANTED YOUNG MAN III TEND BAR s w;
Illst b. Of neat ADDRESS and afraid Of work I:
fair wage, gyJ.l and "o1-d. Address c. g. star
Office. la