The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-04-04

putting - sss0 FoW Ae00xXVo 8aeSe sssSs
throws tho powerfully pssstrating x rays,
and adding long distance revolving
lens. with other up-to-date acquisitions.
We are now enabled to throw . strong
search light to any point Of the earth or
the heavens, and also to penetrate solid
or soft substances alike and to see clear
through flesh and bone and into the ss-
cret depth Of heart and brain. twill be
turned on coming and existing events and
the thoughts and actions Of illustrious
for the present.
There 10 = great expedition. of ships
and men and gums and brass bands going
up the Milo this week. The object Of all
this military strength and display 10 sup
posed to be secret, of course, with
the English government; but with the
aid of our new Observatory glass We can
see through the motive and everything 10
made plain.
Ostensibly, the play is to prevent King
Menelek. flushed with victory, from com :
ing down from Abyssinia 10 get away
with old Cyclops, the big pyramid, and
the Sphinx, two great relics of the handi-
work of the Israelites while in bondadge
four thousand years ago and when they
were working out their taxes and fines
on the g5ptian etonepile. England has
a mortgage of over five hundred million
dollars on these two grand relics, and she
collects the revenues Of relic gazing
which amounts to about ten millions q
year.
But in reality the prime object of the
expedition is to get possession of all the
old tumble down cities, pyramids, ODE.
lisks, temples, tombs, catacombs and
munmies, and then establish All immense
curiosity shop Of the land of Moses and
the Pharaohs. There's billions in it.
This is strictly business proposition
with no Monroe doctrine confronting. Il
is done in the interests of the Englist
government, the transportation lines, tht
bankers, hotel keepers, and relic hunters
And one good feature of 1t is that it can
not harm the natives, for they are no good
to themselves or anybody else. About
the only income that many old countr,
governments have had since Spain los
her possessions in the Americas has CONE
through moneys lett in them by tourists
and relic hunters aud ruin gazers from
America, and which they manage to LOAF
to us again at big interest when We &c
broke.
Many Of the old countries are little lee
than mammoth museums, and oil tn
people are doorkeepsrs. The money re.
ceived from those who pay to gaze, An
uually amounts to a. much 40 all the Rol'
produced from our mines. The none
exchange business transacted BY tn
bankers Of Europe by deposits from tour
lists in search of counts, lords, and baron
for our daughters, and the purchase q
high sounding but empty Titles, relics 0
feudal days and worn out coats of arm
amounts to ~ much as all the silver vi
take out. And worse than all, the prof
,igate rulers of our country manage I
RUIN our financial interests 10 such an ex
tent by casting aside silver, our old re!l
able money metal, that We must 60 owe
| to the usurers of tho countries in whic
we spend our gold and borrow 1t bacl
only to spend it with them again. !
there is no change soon, We will drift for
ever into the jaws of the dogs of Europe
a. Epyt now is.
It looks now a. if by and By this ono
sweet land Of freedom of ours, the cradl
in which the young goddess OF libert.
once 20 peacefully reposed, will soon be
come . land Of fossils and relics and ru
ined hopes, and 60 into the hands OF
foreign receiver. It will be advertised
a the greatest ruin and relic OF them all
the curiosity Of the ages; the land OF
once happy and prosperous people; gon'
rs others have gone-its heart eaten Gu
by the worms If oppression and greed
died while yet In tassel and left no seed
King Mene!ek of Abyssinia, who re
ccently ruined the Italian army sent t
subjugate him, is lineal descendant 0
the Queen of sheba by King Solomon Q
temple fame, and has the records to show
fo. it. Hrs wife, who is his cousin, like
wise boasts Of the same rich blood. W.
know from .criptural history that this i
slI true, for it 10 written that when TIL
queen heard of SolomonS wealth ane
glory she forthwith loaded up csrsval
Of camels with royal household good
and perfumeries and went up to Jerusa
lem and fell upon the kings neck ane
kissed him and gave him all tho MIC
presents she had brought with her, snt
made him long visit. You oil know
Solomon Vas considered at that time tn
most popular ladies' man in the world
aud kspt palace full Of Wives and con
cubines. Later on, however, Ia bis ex
treme old age. he said, "Vanity, vanity
all 10 vanity" and wrote book calIet
..Lameo tations," and advised everybody
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