The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-03-27

| stituents of the sun. These minute par
ticles are Of granite, diorite and quartz
the rocks characteristic Of continent
ol land.-Ladies' Home Journal.
DEMOCRATIC WASHINGTON.
The Seat Of Gevsrnmeut Nothing Els,
| Than Onlciai.
| Democracy, says Julian Ralph in
! Harper's, is more evident at the
seat Of our government than any
| where else in America. Washington is
great reveller. Had the capital been
set up in New York, Or any great COM
| mercial or manufacturing city. the re-
suit surely would have been very diff
! ferent. The people or the officials
would have drawn a line between the
two classes But as it is Washington
nothing else than official, and the r.lc .
who hold place become ordinary hv
! mere force of numbers. Heart pan
come to new congressman, who frd
themselves counting for no more tl:a3
ordinary citizens outside of their coun.
Gil chamber. Indeed, only the member
OF the upper house have been able. b.
reason of their fewncss and long tenure
OF office, to create an artificial dignity
for themselves wholly within one wing
OF the capitol. In the hotel lobbics an>i
In the streets no one poin is out sena-
tor as senator, though especial gift
and strong personality or great veal
or eccentricity may cause a few to l..
| whispered about as they pass in the
crowds.
And how can this help but be the
case where even the president walks
about the streets on fine afternoons, is
met in the shops, goes on foot to and
from church, and rides about the coun-
try roads in carriage not different
from those of his genteel neighborsp
President Arthur's fine figure was a
common feature of outdoor life in
Washington.
Gen. Garfield had been long known,
by sight, to all Washington before he
was president. Neither Grant, nor
Hayes, nor Harrison, ever secluded
himself, and if President Cleveland does
sol Is because he is poor pedestrian,
and an ill-advised worker, attending to
even the routine duties which other
presidents have shouldered upon subor-
dinates. The custom of tri-wcelly re-
ceptions to the public, which Mr.. Clcve-
land made feature of Washington
life during his first term, which Ec,,-
jamin Harrison kept up, and which
many presidents have observed, had
great leveling effect. The member
from Podunk could not give himself
airs If his humblest constituent had
shaken hands with the executive that
day and meant to do SO again day after
tomorrow. The custom must have
made many foreigner marvel. 1t was
ultra-Aner!can-the best thing for the
people, and the most disagreeablc for
their chief servant OF any phase of the
relationship of the Office holder to the
masses in our government. The man
whose personality made him seem to fill
the place more fully and majestically-
to the eye, at any rate-than any man
since Washington, used to hold such
receptions wherever he went, and anv
man could shake his hand. have seen
him receive the people Of pastoral re.
gion IN the parlor Of country hotel,
and put new pride into the American
ism Of thousands.
BIG PRICES FOR FURNITURE.
Auetioneers Talk of the Private Sale Of
Rich Mems Effects.
A party of auctioneers en- route from
Chicago to Buffalo were in the smoking
room of a Lake Shore sleeper the other
night telling stories. Selling horses
and farm stuff by auction is all right"
said one, "but for genuine fun give me
the private sale Of rich mans furni-
ture. When Anthony Drexel died there
were a lot Of things which had personal
"reminiscences connected with them
which everyone wanted. 1t was finally
decided to hold family auction and
sell them to the highest bidder. The
first thing put up was small clock,
worth, l suppose, about twenty dollars.
"'In give five hundred dollars was
the first bid. It came from a nephew.
"'Malxe it one thousand dollars" in
terjected a younger son.
"'Fifteen hundred dollars replied
the nephew.
"The nephew won and got the twenty
dollar clock for money with which hc
COu1O udVO VIC AASot ClOCh III
Philadelphia. never knew, what the
history of the clock was, but it must
have had peculiar one. Then l put
up big armchair. It was the chair
Drcxcl had sat in for over twenty years
and it had valuable association for
each one of the family. A married
daughter and young Anthony Drexel
were the ones who wanted it the most,
and the bidding, which opened at one
thousand dollars, was spirited and
lively. finally sold the chair to An
thony for six thousand five hundred
dollars. The days sales brought in
over twenty-five thousand dollars"
II never had anything as good -
that" said another auctioneer, "but
sold the Childs effects in the same way.
The chief contest was over one of those
tall clocks. Childs' eld.
est son finally bought it for eighteen
hundred and City dollars, and it is now
IN the Ledger Office in Philadelphia."