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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-11-28

The silver oea.ee Deliyess : NaGnia.
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Over one-half Of the inhabitant
Of Colorado were crowded within
the limits Of Denver City, Tuesday
| TO pay homage "a Hon. William J
Bryan. who was present 30 ful6u
promise made during the campaig'
that DO would address the. citisen
Of Colorado upon that date.
II 10 said that over 100, 600 psopl
from different parts Of the state ha.
docked 10 Denver II expectation o
the gallant leaders arrival. Thor
was also Z large number pressn
from several towns in Kansas ant
Wyoming.
The reception which Mr.. Bryal
met was tho spontaneous recogni
ton Of grateful citizens Of over,
political degree. It Was . fitting
tribute Of homage TO the man WIZ
90 calamity bore tho silver ban
nsr during the late campaign. Thu
demonstration of enthusiasm. it il
said, has mover been equalsd il
this country.
After msgnificentaddress atth.
Coliseum before the largsst audi
ence that has ever greeted = public
speaker in the state Of Colorado
Mr.. Bryan was driven to the Brown
Palace hotel where be was the guest
Of honor 1t the annual banquet Of
the Chamber Of Commerce.
While In Denver Mr.. Bryan deliv.
cred q short address to an audience
of ladies. In presenting Mr.. Bryan
TO his fair hearers, Mrs. T. n. Pat.
terson, who presided as chairman,
in closing her remarks said:
"Women of Colorado, / present
to you the first President Of the
twentieth century-William Jen-
nings Bryan"
Mr.. Bryan made a lengthy address
to the ladies. He said, in part:
ut is gratifying, indeed, to be
permitted TO meet those who extend
90 cordial = welcome to q defeated
candidate. Applause. II had
been successful in the contest
through which We have passed, this
might have been account.
cd for on the theory that some Of
you we're aspirants for Office (laugh-
ter) aud expected my autograph.
Az it is, / now come to you %
private citizen with nothing to re-
ceive from you but good will, and
nothing to give you but my graft
tude. | only regret that ] could
not have brought with mo my bet
Ter half (applause) to enjoy With
me this welcome. For she has
shared with me al my trials, and
Is entitled to the full half of alLthe
honors that may como to me. l
know that it 10 net your fault that
she was not givel hat title which
Ne all speak of Nth reverence
the FIRST lady in the land, and yet
feel a0d assure you that she did
not need that title, because she has
been the first lady in the land for
number of years." Loud ap-
plause).
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-11-28
Everything IL First Class IN
Quality.

Those who favor NE with call will meet
Will pSoNpt attention and Kind treatment
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-11-28

The free silver Democrats Of Ken.
tucky declare that the throwing 81
two spoiled sggs at Carlisls when
he was speaking at Covington dur.
ing the campaign cost the Demo-
cratic party the electoral vote Of
Kentucky. They claim that Incl.
dent alohs prevented Bryan from
carrying the state by 5000 majority
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22
Hutuurn11s department.

OLD, BUT GooD.-The Cincinnati
Gazette number of years ago, pub
lished a good story on distinguished
lawyer named Benham, Of that city.
He was fine orator, but much given
to a display of his vast classical learn
ing. In murder trial he warned the
jury not to allow public opinion, which
was against his client, to influence the
verdict. In concluding his appeal, he
said: "Gentlemen of the jury, give
up drop all feeling in the matter, and
be like the ancient Roman in his ad-
herence to the truth, who, in its de-
fence, eloquently declared: 'Amicus
Cato, amicus Plato, amicus Cicero, sid
major veritas,' q am a friend to Cato,
a friend of Pluto, a friend of Cicero,
but greater friend to truth.) The
papers the next morning reported the
eloquent lawyer as having closed his
great speech to the jury finely saying !:
"I may cuss Cato, may cuss Pluto, l
may cuss Cicero, said Major Veritas.' "
This is something similar to story
that has been going the rounds of the
press concerning General Sherman.
He was walking along the streets of
st. Louis with friend and was very
pleasantly accosted by a gentleman
whom the general did not quite re-
member. The gentleman seeing how
it was, said in low voice: 'Don't
you remember me. I make your
shirts" "Oh! yes," replied the gen.
eral, smiling, then turning to his friend,
said "Colonel-, allow me to intro
duce my friend, Major Schurtz.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

He HAD FAITH In MoRPHINE.-A
storekeeper in a certain New Hamp-
shire town has for some days been on
the verge of having 'em, and has been
letting up on the whisky and taking
morphine powders. The other day
some of the boys killed rattlesnake
and caught two or three stripped
snakes couple of frogs, turtle. or
two, and about dusk set them in front
of the store. Then the storekeeper
was quietly inveigled to the door and
led into conversation. Presently his
eye alighted on one of the snakes.
Looking about he saw another. But
he kept on with the conversation.
Then turtle caught his eye, and then
a frog and then another snake. But
he never weakened bit until he saw
the rattler twined around the lamppost.
That settled him. "You must excuse
me a minute" he said, and he went
into the store and took a morphine pow
der. While he was gone the boys took
the snakes away. He came back, took
a satisfied look around, and said !:
"Morphine's great thing isn't it?"-
Boston Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

izens also of the United States, and of
South Carolina. Your Christianity
should produce in you the highest pa
triotism.
AS Christian patriot, there are grave
duties devolving upon you. One OF
these duties is the selection and cleo
ton of men to positions of office and
trust in the state. This is not mere
matter of practical politics; or of part
sanship, or of self-interess, but of duty.
The ballot is a sacred trust put in your
hands in the providence of the Al
mighty God.
It is one ofthe talents committed to
you. God will call you to account for
your use of it. 1t is an act to be seri-
ously considered and prayed over by
the Cody man. We must not only be
honest as Christians, and law abiding
as Christians, but we must vote as
Christians. We must do all that we
do for the glory of God.
Ifevil men are elected to office by
your vote, or because of your indiffer'
ence, you will have to answer for it to
your Lord, who has put it in your
power to help select the officers o.
state.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

FREE CoINAGE.-Up to 1873 gold
and silver were both coined in the
United States on the same terms. The
act of decentralization in 1878 placed sill
yer on level with copper and nickel
and left gold as the only standard.
The silver men seek to restore silver
so that it may be coined at the ratio
of 16 to l. That ratio has no refer
ence to the quantity of dollars of eth
er kind, but simply to the weight.
When one person carries gold enough
to the mint to make one dollar his
neighbor will have to carry 16 times
as much silver to get a dollar. The
owners of these metals will have the
privilege of coming all the gold and
silver bullion they have free of charge.
Bullion is gold or silver as taken rom
the mines and run into bars, bricks or
blocks. When carried to the mint it is
assayed and the owner receives $1.OC
for 1872 grains of pure gold or 3714
grains of pure silver. That would be
bimetaHism, or two standards, and it
would exist if a single dollar of gold
should not be coined in year. If the
bimetallic standard should be adopted
and the market value of gold advance
beyond the coin value then no one
would coin gold. The same may be
said of silver. Still the double stand
ard would exist if neither metal was
coined.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

EVIL EFFECT OF CATARRH.-It has
been the rule to consider nasal catarrh
almost entirely a local disease, and
one which has very little effect upon
the general system. All this is being
rapidly disproved, and it is being
shown that if the nose is in an un'
healthy state there is quite a long list
of affections which may be induced in
consequence. Hay fever has often
been cured by applications to certain
points in the nasal passages. Asthma,
also, has yielded to the same treat
ment. It is 8 well-known fact that
when the victim of catarrh suffers
from dyspepsia scarcely any improve
ment in the latter can be made, no
matter what is done for it, until the
former is on the gain. Evidence is
not wanting to show that severe func.
tional disturbances of the lungs, and
even of the heart, are sometimes in
duced by nasal trouble. Recently
there was reported the case of a wo-
man who had had epilepsy for several
years, and, although she had patient
ly sought relief, no improvement took
place until applications were made
to her nose and its condition improv-
ed. Under that line of treatment
entire recovery occurred. Very many
other cases are on record which show
that the relations between the nose
and other parts of the system is very
intimate, the connection being OF
course, through the nerve SYSTEM
Family Doctor.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

THE TIME TO SELL FARM Pro-
DUcTs.-The time to sell the products
of the farm is when they are ready to
sell and when the time can be had to
send them to the market. The right
time to buy anything is when it is
needed and you have the money.
Poor Ricnard once said that anything
bought because it was cheap and not
because it was needed, proved dear
to its purchaser. Selling we'll and at
the opportune moment, and using
good horse sense in buying what is
needed, belongs to modern agriculture.
Economics should be the first branch
studied by our farmers sons.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

NATURALLY ENoUGH.-First Oma-
ha man-What's the matter; not out
of business again, are you?
Second Omaha man-Yes, my last
venture busted the first week.
"That's queer. I thought you
started a factory to darn stockings for
young men, old bachelors, and others
with no women folks to look after
them. That ought to pay"
"Pay Got more orders than I could
fill, hired a whole lot of nice girls who
knew how to darn stockings, and they
did their work beautifully-but then
the enterprise busted"
"Why, what happened ?"
"Girls all left"
"Dissatisied?"
"No; the whole crowd of customers
hunted 'em up Sunday and married
en-"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

s@- The wheat plant has been cult
waited so long that botanists are unable
to trace its origin as accurately as
that of some other plants, but by the
aid of the various scattered illusions
to it found among writers of antiquity,
together with the botanical evidence
that has gradually accumulated, the
common wheat has been traced from
country to country to it's native home
in the great plateau of Armenia. 1t is
believed to have sprung from grass
that still grows wild on the slopes OF
the Ararat range, the seeds of which,
though very small, produce a meal
that has all the constituent elements
of flour.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

He HAD MIsGIvINGs STILL.
drummer who runs his business in
South Carolina was in certain neigh
borhood where the crops were very
fine,. and where most of the people
were rejoicing over the prospect OF
plenty. Several of the people were
together, and one of them concluded
to called on chronic grumbler of that
section to hear what he had to say
about the crops. But he, too, ackowl-
edged that the crops were very fine,
and it seemed that even he had no
complaint against Providence. How
ever, after acknowledging that every
thing was splendid, he added-"But
I'm monstrously afraid that the big
crop has so impoverished the ground
that we shall make hardly anything
next year."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22
aatiseettaneu,ts Rsading.
SEVEN, BRYAN's LUCKY NUMBER.
If Omens Be True He Will Surely Be thu
President.

If Omens Be True He Will Surely Be the
President.
CINCINNATI, July 15.-An interest
ing dispatch comes to The Enquirer
from Louisville.
There is, perhaps, no superstition so
general throughout the civilized world
as those regarding the figure 13 being
an unlucky number, the story begins.
How it originated will perhaps never
be known, but it is generally attributed
to the presence of the IL apostles and
Christ at the last supper. There is
also worldwide superstition regard
ling the figure seven being a lucky
number, and throughout all the rail-
roads of this country the engineers
invariably select the seven in preference
to- any other engine. 1t is said that
many of the railroads omit numbering
an engine IS, because it is difficult to
get an engineer to take charge of it.
When the Democratic nominee for
president, William J. Bryan, arrived
at Chicago, several weeks before the
convention convened, he put up at a
hotel, the name of which is spelled
with seven letters-Clifton. The clerk
assigned him to room number seven.
The committee in charge of the ar
rangements had just seven coupons
printed on the tickets of admission,
and there were just seven business
sessions.
The Democratic convention conven-
ed in the seventh month of the
year-July-6n the seventh day OF the
month, at city the name of which is
spelled with just seven letters-Chl-
cago.
The name of the nominee-and by
the way, there are just seven letters in
nominee-is spelled with seven let
William, seven letters; w. ).
Bryan, seven letters.
He was nominated by H. L. Lewis,
seven letters, and the first state to vote
for him was Georgia, which is spelled
with seven letters. Mr.. Bryan's home
is in a city of seven letters, Lincoln,
and the state whose vote secured his
nomination was Montana-seven let
ters. The chair man of the national
committee in charge of the convention
was Harrity, seven letters, and the
new chairman is S. NJ. White, seven
letters. He wears a number seven
shoe and number seven hat, and there
were Just seven states that followed
the standard of Nebraska for a long
time before Illinois joined the pro-
cession.
The name of the club that Mrs.
Bryan organized is spelled with seven
letters-Sorosis-and he referred to
lust seven kinds of business men in bis
great speech that secured his nomina-
tion. There were seven candidates
for president nominated before the
convention, and the sleeping car that
carried him to Chicago was the "Fe-
ronia," seven letters.
If there is anything in this belief re-
garding the figure seven, W. J. Bryan,
who is in his 37th year, will be inaugu-
ted president March 4, 1897. The
fact that Mckinley was nominated tor
president on the anniversary Of the
battle of Waterloo is significant Of his
defeat.
Seven is sacred number, made by
the supreme creator of the universe,
for in six days he created the heavens
and the earth and on the seventh
day he rested.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

WHERE HE DREW THE LINE
They tell a good story on q south
Georgia statesman, who went to
Charleston in the old days and stopped
at hotel. A waiter brought out some
shrimps, which the Georgian slowed
away as best he could. In moment
the waiter reappeared with stand Of
celery.
"No," said the Georgian, shaking bis
head solemnly, ~ have tried your bugs
and don't like them, and you can bet
yer life I don't want none er your
grass"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

WEAK ANKLEs.-For weak ankles
it will be found very strengthening to
bathe them in salt water-sea water,
if possible. Afterward they should be
bandaged with bandage that has
been wrung out in cold water. This
must be removed at night, and the
ankle be again bathed, and then mas
saged for five or ten minutes. A few
weeks of this treatment will make them
very much stronger.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

AN ADJUSTABLE SIMILE.-Dusen-
bury-You have gone to housekeep-
ing, I hear. Nicely fixed, 1 suppose?
Mr.. Jenks-Yes. My wife is per-
fectly delighted. She reminds me OF a
tea-kettle, she sings so pleasantly.
Mr.. Dusenbury-My wife often re-
minds me of tea kettle, too.
Mr.. Jenks-In what way?
Mr.. Dusenbury-I never know when
she is going to boil over.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

EGG CORN BREAD.-Here is a rec
ipe for an excellent corn bread
Half cupful of bread crumbs soaked
in pint of milk, two eggs, two cupfuls
of corn meal, tablespoonful oflard or
butter, teaspoonful of salt. Beat the
eggs lig ght and the soaked bread crumbs
to batter, melt the shortening; stir
all together until hard, and bake in
shallow tins in quck oven.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

The WooDsHED LEssoN.-"Now,
you young scamp" said Blinks, Sr., as
he led his youngest out into the wood
shed and prepared to give him dress
ing down, "I'll teach you what is
what" "No, pa" replied the incorri-
gible, 'you'll teach me which is
switch" And then the old mans
hand fell powerless at his side.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

HIS FUTURE AssURED.--w guess I'm
pretty safe about going to heaven" "
remarked Bobby to young Mr.. Feath-
erly.
Mr.. Featherly replied that he
earnestly hoped so, and then inquired
why Bobby felt so confident about the
matter.
"Because," explained Bobby, "Ma
says that it amt safe to trust me where
there's fire."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-07-22

s~ An absent-minded gentlemen,
writing letter at the breakfast-table,
dipped his pen in his coffee and con-
tinued his letter. Noticing his mis-
take, he put lump of sugar in the
ink, and then finding his second blum
der, poured the contents of the ink
stand into the coffee-cup to set it
right.
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p@ "Anybody lose a dollar ?" he
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eyes, sir, 1 did," replied three diff
ferent men in chorus.
ooh you did. Sorry for you; but
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folks are of their dollars"
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ATTENTION CHRISTIAN CITIZENS
A correspondent of the Due West
Presbyterian, over the signature of
"a Christian Citizen" says: Disciples
of Jesus in South Carolina. You are
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citation in Toxic.
H6 "I want to pay this bill," he said
to the hotel clerk. "But l think you
have made slight error here in my
favor. I've been looking over the ex-
tras, and I cannot find that you have
charged me anything for telling me you
thought it might rain"
BdS A company has been organized
in New York city for the manufacture
of non-illuminating fuel gas, and has
in application for permission to lay the
mains in the streets. The company
says it can supply non-illuminating
fuel gas at so cents per 1000 feet, with
such reduced rates to factories as will
make it cheaper than coal.
s9 On level tract of land close to
the side of the old road between Milton
and Copperopolis, in Calveras county,
CAL, is still standing venerable oak
that earned for itself in early days the
title of "Hangman's Tree" 1t is said
that over forty men have passed into
eternity from the largest limb. But
that is not all the old tree has been a
silent witness to. On one occasion q
man had been executed just as party
of friends, who believed him innocent,
came to rescue him. A fierce fight
ensued, and the rescuing party, being
the best shots, came off victorious.
Twenty men shed their blood on this
day. At the end of the fight five ofthe
hanging party who executed the first
man were left alive. They surrender
ed and asked for mercy, but were not
given it, and in less than five minutes
their bodies were swinging beside that
of their victim.