The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-07-28

my new passenger 10 collect ms rare.
Then, when he showed at me much
handled piece of pasteboard, signed by
the postmaster general and command
ing in imperious language that the
holder be carried free of charge on all
trains carrying United States mails,
lost my temper completely. was SO
mad that would listen to no explana-
ton from him, because considered
him either train robber or an impos-
ter, and made him pay his fare in the
coin of the realm, for which gave him
receipt.
81 soon heard from my mistake after
reached st. Louis. The post Office
authorities and the railway people
came down on me like a thousand of
brick. learned from them that my
midnight passenger was a post Office
inspector, and that every man in this
service is provided with card from
the postmaster general commanding
the conductors Of all railroad trains
which carry mail to pass the bearer
free. The name of no railroad COM
pany or official appears on the card,
but the holder of it can travel on any
road in the United States as far as he
wants to go without paying cent
QUAKERlSM UP TO DATE.
Concessions to Modern Ideas by the Socie-
ty of Friends.
The recent yearly meeting of the So
ciety of Friends adopted several
changes in discipline that will be of
very general interest. The rule con-
cerning marriage, says the Philadel-
phia Press, that for time out of mind
has been regarded with such rigor in
the society, has been changed in the
direction of iberality. It is now alto
gether feasible for member to marry
one who is outside the society without
losing standing, or, in any event, MEM
bership in the society. Formerly it
was impossible for member to marry
anyone not a member of the society
without the consent of the meeting,
provided the person was a member of
any other body. Now, in all cases, if
the meeting consent, it can be done in
god order. Even if member marry
contrary to the order of the meeting
and desire to retain membership, the
meeting is now, by the changes in the
discipline, permitted to retain him.
The women's meeting, it may also be
observed, is given equal voice with the
men.
The new discipline makes number
of other changes. Among the most in
teresting is one recommending that
friends abstain from the use, cultiva-
ton, manufacture and sale of tobacco
A recommendation against the-use and
sale of liquors has long been in force,
and remains unchanged, except that
it has been extended so as to embrace
furnishing any material whereby the
testimony against intoxicants is vio-
lated
The testimonies in relation to ''plain-
ness" OF speech, apparel and behavior
remain unchanged. The article in re-
lation to slavery is stricken out, and
many obsolete expressions are modern
ized.
The queries have been recast, and
now embrace fourteen, the answering
of which embraces statement of the
condition of the society on almost all
essential points.
One of the changes that has been
made is the substitution Of the term
free ministry of the gospel in place
of the term ''hireling," which was dis
tasteful to many. The testimony against
. paid ministry is not changed, but
only the name by which it is known is
rendered more euphonious.
Peace and arbitration are also advo-
Gated