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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
DANGER IN THE USE OF SLANG

Expsrisnee In Brooklyn Shows Peril In
the Word "Rats.
A new illustration of the dangerous
confusion that often is created by the
prevalence of slang is furnished, says
the Brooklyn Times, by an incident re-
ported in this mornings news. A pro-
fessional rat catcher went to a fashion
able club the other evening, and at
midnight he had bagged fifty rats
With the fifty living rats in q bag-for
this professional scorns to kill any
rats on the premises-he left the fash
ionable club and started home. Then
appeared an unknown policeman, who
said: Where are You going?" "None
of your business" answered the rat
catcher. $50 that's your swag," said
the policeman, sarcastically, tapping
the bag with his club. Mary swag,"
said the rat catcher. What have you
in the bag, then?" Here we come to
the first crisis of the story, for the
reply was "Rats." The policeman
then punched the professional for
what he, perhaps reasonably, regard
ed as his impertinence. Moreover, he
grabbed the bag and thrust in his in
quiring, official hand. Here comes the
second crisis of the story, for at least
seven rats grabbed that hand. The
policeman yelled, and shook off the
rats, and, the other forty-three leaping
from the bag, the street was soon full
of rats. The poor policeman, with
rats to the right of him and rats to the
left of him and rats in an indefinite
vista before and behind him, fed into
the night.
This is not the first time that slang
has indirectly created confusion in the
world. The rat catcher had no sus-
picion that the policeman would take
his explanation amiss. This is the
trouble. The slang that creates dis
aster is generally used unwittingly.
May the present picturesque warning
be needed.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05

The KEYsToHr Is the sole representative
of the Great Upper Wood River. Sawtooth
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as it is in the very heart of the most prom
ising mining country OH the face of the
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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05

Women were the first shoemakers.
They made beautiful shoes with soles
of rawhide and uppers Of dressed skin.
Prof. Mason says that the women who
invented the moccasin should have q
statue by the side Of Watt. The Eskimo
woman is bootmaker. She carries
part of her equipment Of tools in her
mouth, using her teeth to help various
processes. The reticule, tobacco bag,
travelling case, bandbox and packing
trunk all exist among the savages, and
in North America are made by women,
chiefly from the pelts OF animals. For
the first two the skins Of rodents and
s'such small DEER suffice. There ia
beautitul war bonoekt6 eng1e feathers
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
SILK FROM WOOD PULP.

! A New Industry to BE Started In Thia
Country. 9
Reference has already been made to
the method Of making silk from wood
pulp, the discovery Of DIR. Lehner, OF
| Switzerland. Companies have been re-
Gently formed in England and Mont
real and factories will be erected to
manufacture the silk, says the New
York World.
In the process of manufacturing the
new fabric the principal ingredients
used are spruce wood pulp, cotton or
Jute waste, etc, combined with large
quantity of alcohol. The use of the
substantial or solid materials men,
toned creates market for what was
hitherto of no use whatever, being
burned in factory furnaces to get it out
of the way.
value, for this, as well as the other ma
terials, are digested by chemical proc
ess, in which alcohol plays an impor-
tant part. The material thus digested
is so much like the cocoon spun by the
silkwor,n that when the two are placed
side by side in finished state it takes
an expert to determine which is which.
The artificial material at one state is
liquid, and of a density about equal
to the ordinary sirup of commerce.
When in this state machine of Dr.
Lehner's invention, which may be
called an artificial silkworm, comes into
play. This machine, which is very SIM
pie in construction, requiring so little
attention that it can be kept at work
with about as much labor as is devoted
to a twentyfour-hour clock, performs
exactly the same mechanical work that
a silkwor,n does. 1t draws from the
liquid q continuous, unbrolsen thread of
even diameter and unlimited length.
AS this thread is spun, another portion
OF the machine takes it up aud twists it
into any desired thickness of yarn with
perfect regularity.
Thus the fabric can be made of any
desired weight or thickness, so that it
will be seasonable at all times
This artificial silk has been spun in
Bradford, England. and worked up into
large variety of fabrics. In the dye
ing, weaving and finishing of these no
special treatment has been found neces-
sary. 1t has been dyed in all imagin-
able shades and colors and. owing to
the peculiar qualities of the material,
it takes dye more readily and gives
more brilliant effect than the natural
article. In texture it is equal to the
best of Chinese and Indian silks, being
soft and sillen to the touch. It is ex-
pected that it will be used largely in
combination with natural silk and
cotton for producing brocadcd effects.
These latter have been so expensive
lately as to be out of reach of all but the
fattest purses. The invention viii
greatly reduce the cost.
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s.Notice of Forfeiture.

Signs: "
psaS aSa are hereby notified that I have ex-
f,rS fNsu ;s tl.e sum Of one hundred lOl) dol
III labor and improvements upon the
J., WELLINGTON
ue sbnn1 mining claim, situated on Rear gulch,
in WI sllire nles miles northeastcrly of Galena.
countv VoG klyer mining district. Blaine
Esvisssss EHss Idaho, as required by section 2324,
ips sa tha statutes of the United States, be-
for NC ~ amount required to hold the same
that te voy year ending December. 81, 1885 !;
bein,,s b, your proportion of the saiie is $50,
from ,pn bne- half; and if within ninety days
ninety uie service of this notice, or within
.you y gays after this notice by publication
port,onn ON % or refuse to contribute your pro-
inclndinooi ilSn OF @ such expenditure as co-owner,
Your mig legal costs of this publication,
u1 propsrite Interest in said claim xin become the
proyis;t0yn.o OF the undersigned, under the
As'ons OF said section 3N.
Keteh,n ,, JOHN CAREY.
iRHum, Idaho, January IA, 1895.
1s' publication, Jan. Is, 1906
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that this punishment causes mortiAca-
tion to set in and that the hand decom.
poses; but such is not the case, for by
the time the deather wears OFF the
wound is healed, the resnlt being that
the hand is rendered useless and re-
mains closed forever. 1t is a ;punisl,-
ment not often in use, but is sometimes
done in cases of murder or constant
theft, as, without in any way injur,ng
the health OF the man, it prevents his
committing the crime second time, or
for the hundredth time, as the case may
be. It Is . punishment that cannot be
applied except by the sultan's orders
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
NEW GAMBLING WRINKLE.

Hew Some Jolly Fellows Seek to Woe the
Goddess of Fortune.
There is new form of gambling much
affected in clubs and barrooms nova
days that even the board of trade viii
find it hard to put a stop to, says the
Washington Post. Everyone Is familiar
with the electric fans which in the past
few years have proved such boon in
torrid weather. They are shaped like
. propeller and have four, Eve or six
blades and are incased in wire cages
with large apertures By touching a
lever at the back the machine can be
started or stopped at will, and while In
motion the velocity is something tre-
mendous. Some wide-awake genius
not long ago conceived the idea that
the electric fan could be utilized as an
excellent means Of wooing the goddess
of fortune and put the suggestion into
operation in this wise: A six-bladed
fan was stopped and each of
it's blades marked with q num-
Der. Then six slips Of paper were
marked with similar numbers and
six jolly fellows drew a slip apiece.
The number on the slip corresponded
to the number on one of the blades and
it was decided that the blade that was
nearest the perpendicular wire at the
bottom Of the cage covering the fan
when the latter stopped revolving
sh ,uld win the pot. The latter con-
sisted of six dollars, put MP equally by
the ha]f-dozen players. Then the fun
began. The lever would be turned on
and as quiclSy off and the fan would
revolve like lightning, slow down and
stop in half minute. There was no
''kitty" to be fed as in poker, no per-
centage Of split, as in faro, and no rake
off for the house, as in other games. 1t
was pure luck affair and the heaviest
loser was not more than five dollars
out at the end of an hours whirlinR,
while the excitement had been as in
tense as the most devoted gambler
could desire. Next day each one of the
six introduced the electric fan to his
friends in its new guise as q spinning
jenny and now the game has spread
eli over town. The interest in it IA
heightened good deal by having
blank blade, which when it stops at
the winning wire constitutes jack
pot and necessitates the players put
ting up an extra stake, just as in
poker So from a one dollar ante in
brokers' offices to whirling for coppers
by district messengers the electric fan
is being brought into requisition with
general hilarity,
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KETCHUM, IDAHO, SATURDAY. JUNE s. 1897

ton. The amount collected in this wav
depends upon the number Of rata the
boys can catch. 1t is hardly large enough
to attract an investment of capital, but
1t gives the ingenious youngsters con-
siderable pocket money, and encour-
ages business tactics In some factories
there are young Napoleons, who buy
up In advance the shares of their fell
low-workers in the rat colony. A
scarcity of rats will depress the price
OF futures, while an overplus will ad-
vance it. Sharpers who understand
these conditions are accused of having
at times caused an artificial scarcity or
oversupply, as it might be to their in
terest to bull or bear the market.
The French discoverers are q little
behind the times with their microbe
scheme.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05

Four of the most eminent men In
Europe are at the present time suffer
ing from partial blindness. In all cases
the nature Of the ailment is the same,
namely, cataract. Mr.. Gladstone has
had several operations performed upon
one of his eyes. The other eye is still
sound enough to enable him to read
and write. Sir William Harcourt's eyes
are both much obscured, and must
soon have relief or be altogether dark
ened. M. Jules Simon is in like
plight, and Sig. Crispi. in whose case
the ailment has not proceeded quite 20
far as in the others, has already sought
the services Of . skilled oculist.
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THE FLEET OF MONITORS.

Tnelr History Long Record Of Extrnvn.
gsnce Consequent Upon Neglect.
When the history of the monitors in
the United States navy shall come Ia
be told it will lay bare long record OF
extravagance consequent upon neglect.
Some OF the uncompleted or recently
completed monitors. saws the New York
Sun, were begun while many officers of
the navy were still in their cradles, and
the feet of monitors just ordered from
the James river, near Richmond, has
been lying there rusting these twenty
years. They are of the single turret
type. One commander aboard the Ajax
served for the whole fleet. They are
all slngle-screw steamers, of 34O-horse
power, and each carries two guns. The
Ajax, Canonicus, Mahonac, Manhattan,
and Wyandotte are 2,10O tons each,
while the Catskill, Jason, Lehigh.
Montauk, Nahant, Nantucket, Passaic,
and Cornanche are of 1878 tons each.
Only two out of the six remaining at
Richmond are to be prepared for sea,
and it is said that of the four that have
not been ordered Immediately from the
James some will probably be sold as
scrap iron.
The history of the old double-turrct
monitors, several of which have lately
been completed, is somewhat like that
OF their single-turret sisters. The
largest of these great ironclads is the
Puritan. She is of 6,O60 tons and of
3,7C0 horsepower, and she carries ten
guns. She is a double barbette turret
monitor and SO are the Monadnock and
Amphitrite. They and the Terror, a
double-turret monitor, are each of
5000 tons and 1000 horsepower. The
Monadnock carries six guns aud the
other two carry four guns each. All of
the double-turret monitors are twin
screw propellers. The whole fleet has
been the mystery of the navy for near
ly quarter of century, and the COM
pletion of several of these ships has dis
appointed the expectation of every
body that knows their history. Their
cost was enormous, and there have been
great changes in their plan of construc-
ton. One of them lay for years at
shipyard at Wilmington, Del, until the
put in a claim of many
of dollars for dockage. 1t
used to be said that the double-turret
monitors, if completed, would never be
seaworthy, though, through change of
if nothing else. this evil
has been disappointed.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
Alexander Had . Tender Heart.

Two weeks before the sickness OF the
car of Russia took turn for the
worse, Miss Strutton, his former gov
erness, died in the winter palace at st.
Petersburg. Miss Struston, who was
an English woman, loved Alexander
Romanof as dearly as though he had
been her son. The emperor and his two
brothers attended the funeral, follow
ing the hearse on foot from the palace
to the English cemetery, almost two
miles apart. His majesty and the two
grand dukes had carried the collin from
the deathroom to the hearse. When
the body was lowered into the sgrave
the czar. it is said, wept like child.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
GOLD LINING IN RATS.
The Metal Found In Rodents and 6ovants
Take the Tip.

The MO3Al round IN 1eOOAoO 100 eov1nSs
Take the TIP.
In forming company for the ex-
traction of gold from the microbes
which are supposed to attach them
selves to that metal in countless mil
lions mature Frenchmen seem to have
stolen an idea from thrifty Yankee
boys, says the Chicago Tribune.
l. B. Lake, a representative of the
Waltham Watch company in this city,
says it is common practice for the
boys in watch and jewelry factories to
kill rats and burn their bodies to get
the gold from them, and that the
amount thus obtained in the course OF
a year is considerable. In every large
plant like that of the Waltham Watch
company many oiled rags are used in
furnishing watch cases, and in time
become strongly .impregnated with
gold. The boys about the factories are
supposed to keep these rags out OF
reach OF the rats, but they don't do SO.
On the contrary, knowing the keen ap-
petite of the rodents for anything
greasy, the boys carelessly leave these
rubbing rags lying about where the
rats can get at them and eat them.
Six months of this kind OF diet fills the
interior mechanism of the rat with
gold plating he cannot get. rid OF. 1t
sticks to him closely, and SO long as the
supply of oily rags holds out the rat
sticks to the factory. In order to make
sure the voracious rodents wiz have an
inducement to gorge themselves With
gold, sharp boys drop butter and fatty
meats from their luncheons on the
floors and rub them well into the wood
by shutting their feet on it. At night
the rats come ont aud nibble the floor
ing. They don't care for the gold in 1t,
but the grease attracts them, and in
getting at the grease they take .
dressing of gold with it.
Twice . year the boys have grand
roundup. Bats are caught by the hum
dreds and after being killed are put
into cruciblc and burned. The intense
heat drives of all animal substances,
leaving the gold u the shape OF but
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
FORTUNES EASILY MADE.
Some Men Acquire Riches Without An
Serious Struggle.

Some Men Acquire Riches Without Any
Serious Struggle.
The three principal matters which
have all to do with the Increase OF
wealth in society as at present consti.
tuted are the natural bounties upon
which man constantly exercises his fac.
ulties, and everything which enables
him to use them to better advantage;
the means of transporting the products
of his labor to all parts of the earth
with ease and cheapness, and the me-
dunn which facilitates exchange of
commodities between men - money
The study of these three principal
sources of wealth to community will
reveal two facts-that the people have
been as Indifferent to them as the
money-nakers have been attentive; and
that while the Indifference Of the one
accounts for their ever-diminishing
wages, the attention of the other ac-
counts for their immense fortunes.
It is from the natural bounties that
all the wealth of any community
springs, writes Edward McGlynn, d.
D., in Donahoc's Magazine. The land
and its resources, the forest and it's
riches, the rivers, seas and oceans with
their teelning life are the first and only
sources of real wealth, and upon them
depend the artificial values which So
ciety gives to the beginning of all So
cial wealth. He is the unit OF value.
1t is his cxertion which creates all val
ues, and the object of his exertions il
the support of his own life, the accom-
plishment of his own destiny, here and
hereafter, as his Creator ordained. The
natural bounties must always, there
fore, be open to him in every society,
no matter how complex it's organiza-
ton. The necessity implies right
the right of getting at the natural
bounties with ease and without serious
hindrance; the right of using these
bounties without tax to any power save
society, directly orto it's agents. Now,
at this point we get our first glimpse of
the manner in which enormous fortunes
are made.
We take possession Of these natural
bountics, to monopolize them under
cover of law and custom, and to make
all men who would use them pay be-
forehand for the privilege, have been
the aim Of the money-makcrs since time
began; by getting hold of the natural
bounties, which really belong to the
community, and should never leave its
jurisdiction except in the most prudent
fashion, and then only to revert reg
ularly to the same community, the
builders of great fortunes have been
able to enrich themselves at pleasure
without any labor worthy of the inn
mense prizes they win.
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Terrible Torture In Morocco.

A charge has been laid at Mulai
Omar's door-that Of having ordered
the music of the drums and ffes to
cease on the occasion of the announce
ment of Mulai Abdul Aziz's succession
to the throne. On the players refus-
ing, his highness sent a slave, who en-
forced silence by splitting up the drums
with . dagger. For this act Of treason
he was afterwards punished by having
the flesh Of his hand sliced, the wound
filed with salt, and the whole hand sewn
up in leather. 1t Is q common belief
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
Fewer Lawyers In France

There will soon be great reduction
in the number of lawyers in France.
By recent law each one must take
out q yearly license, for which he pays
an amount equal to about twelve per
cent. of his house rent. Many persons
admitted to the bar who are not in &C
tive practice have asked to have their
names taken of the roll, among them
n. Faillieres, formerly prime minister
and minister OF justice, and Senator
Berenger, author of the law remitting
the penalty for drzt odtenses and Also
noted for his efforts ia improve French
moralitv. ->---.-.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1897-06-05
SMOkEJACkS AND CAPS.
An Inexeasing Number Coming Into Vlsv
Upon the City's Housctops.

An Insxeasing Number Coming Into View
Upon the City's Housctops.
ut seems to me-" said New York
citizen recently, that there Is a very
striking increase in the number Of
chimneypots and smokejacks and
smokecaps visible in the city. The
chimneypots are mostly of the con-
ventional form, like a slightly tapering
cone with the top cut off; the smoke
jacks and caps are of various heights
and styles. suppose the object of all
these things is to improve the draught
of the chimney. don't know why we
should have more of them now than
we used to. whether it is on account of
some difference in the construction Of
our chimneys, which makes them nee
essary; whether we are not satisfied
with draught that would have salts
fed US years ago, and want the Chin
ney to draw better as we want and ex-
pect to have everything better nova
days; or whether the construction in
these days of many higher buildings
has made such changes in the air cur
rents and atmospheric conditions gen.
orally as materially to affect the
draught Of many chirneys; but know
there are more chimney pots.
"This last idea about the breaking
up Of the air currents and that sort of
thing seemed at first to account in some
measure for the greater number of the
newer chimneypots; but when l come
to think of it I remember that in Lon
don riding along a viaduct on trains go
ing in or out of the city, l looked down
on should say hundreds of thousands
Of chimneypots in districts where hum
dreds of acres were covered with small
houses Of unvarying uniformity in
height. There wasn't any DETECTION of
currents here, but doubt if there was
. chimney without its chimneypot, q
thick stubble of chimneypots, and q
mast fascinating sight it was, too, and q
fascinating thought to think of the myri-
ads of people that dwelt beneath them.
''Our chimneypots have not yet by
any means attained that striking ef-
feet. They are still greatly scattered;
but, with the smokejacks and the
smokecaps, they are now sufficiently
numerous to add to the city q feature
Of picturesqueness."
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low. Lakes Disappearing.

There is no longer doubt as to the
gradual disappearance of the smaller
lakes In northwestern Iowa. 1t Is only
of late that the phenomenon has at
tracted general attention, and but re-
Gently have people become interested
in the preservation Of these natural
hodie. Of water. Whether anything
c.r - done to check the process effect
ino their extinction is problem worthy
a ssr;ous consideration
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If the Great Upper Wood River Mining Region

in the National museum, all the work
on which was done with q sewing-ma-
chine by the daughter of chief, who
had been educated in the Carlisle
school
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Every Time.
Smith-You say small boy gains
every time he is thrashed?
Jones-I do.
"What does he gain?"
"A real Spanish victory.-N. y, Truth.