The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-11-27
OUT IN the Woody WILD WORLD
Prof Lseaidas Iyre, q the Kstchum
Observatory, or On ! Vacation
and Tonr Of Inspection.



! Rich In T<aditionary Lore.
| [KrYsroSE Correspondence
! | give FIRST short talk to m,
/ pupils. for must keep their welfar
ever before my eyes. Old Diagenes
the story goes, was wont to searcl
the highways and byways, with
searchlight under his arm, looking
for purely honest man. Presun
ably he wished to diagnose the con
dition of the brain of such being
But his time was spent in vain. HI
never found his man on this planet
and probably never will on an,
other. The moral to which is, never
waste any Of your time looking foI
an honest man.
Another eccentric and deludec
old-timer proclaimed all his days
that knowledge is Power" ane
had it copyrighted. His time, too
was worse than wasted. He fooled
a great many people and in the
end was himself fooled by his silly
teachings, and died poor. II he
had taught that money is the powe,
all powerful, and instructed men
and women how to earn it, he would
have been q benefactor to his race
Money is power in this day Of
progress, and everything else is as
but chaff and CUFF. ! found out by
the aid of my pocket searchlight
long ago how to make money. !
give it free. 1t is this-work for it.
I wish this useful discovery inn
pressed particularly upon the minds
of the class in muscular philosophy.
Keep your brow moist. Keep it
on the blackboard in big letters
MONEY is POWER; more pow
erful than horsepower" and don't
forget it in my absence, and work
accordingly.
resume my travels in the direc-
ton of the equator. 1t is Sunday
again, according to my bearings.
| am camped at this writing under
the hospitable wings of great
cactus tree, my back against the
deserted and moldering walls Of
what was once Spanish fortress,
in the beautiful valley Of the Rio
Grande. For over two and a half
centuries it has withstood the siege
Of storm and earthquake, and war
and strife; but the massive adobes
of which it was constructed are fast
crumbling to their native dust. In
deed, | am little fearful that some
of the top bricks will hardly wait
till | finish this letter, so uncertain
they look to be.
Going back into history, what a
remarkable people those Spaniards
were in their days Of discovery and
conquest. They had subdued and
colonized about all Of South Amer
lea, West India Isles, all of Mexico
and the southern half Of the United
States before the passengers of the
Mayfower ever dreamed there was
such a stone in existence as the
Plymouth Rock. Yet many Of the
New Eng!anders to-day believe the
Pilgrims. alone and single-handed,
subdued and civilized the
entire new world that was opened
up BY tho discoveries of Columbus
aud his co-workers.
Wonderful people, those Span
lards. With cross in ono hand and
sword in the other. they claimed
and conquered sea and land, made
prisoners of whole nations. stole
away their liberties. upset their re-
|igions. forced a new language into
heir mouths. until in the end the
and conquered were lost
IN each other and new people APP
peared, unlike them both, retaining
only the language Of one and color
3f the other.
But other nations have done, an d
to do, just what Spain did
and they will come to grief sooner
,r later, like her, in loss of their
adopted children. If it was cross or
word then. it is Bible or bayonet
low, and the poor and helpless Of
coveted lands can only choose which |
If the two they would swallow.
The lesson to be gained by all
his is a warning not to take more
strange fruit into the stomach than
t can properly digest.
This is a strange country in and
bout the valley of the Rio Grande
strange people many Of them,
strange climate, strange scenery and
strange insects and reptiles, and it
. strangely sleepy. dreamy coun
ry and great in resources and pos
abilities. To take in everything,
would need to write book as big
- Webster's dictionary. Reclining
'gainst this old, unwelcome-look.
ng, tumble-down wall, thoughts
come without the effort Of thinking,
while / am half asleep and bali
lwake, dreaming Of plumed knights
md armored cavaliers and dancing
enoritas, when this was q place fit
or prince and princess and Spain