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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24

I the morning and knocked on the south
door aud wo all Jumped. don't sup
pose anybody had knocked ON that door
three times since we had lived there. Il
was such n lonesome place. We were
scared aud did not dare TO go to the
door. but when he knocked the second
time ! mustered w enough courage.
told Flory, who was aa large rs and
stronger. to take the carving knife. hide
IL under her apron and stand behind me
or course I thought Mt once ~ the
money and that this might be a rohber
Then I opened the door a crack and
peepcd out. The minute I saw the man
who stood there I did not feel afraid at
all. and Fiory said aftcrward that she
felt awful ashamed of the carving knife
and afraid that he might see II and be
hurt In his feelings.
lie stood there. smiling with such a
pleasant smile lie did not look very
old. not near ms old ~ father. and he
was quite we'll dressed. lie was very
good looking. and that. with his pleasant
smile, won our hearts at once lie more
than smiied-hc fairly laughed In such
good naturcd way when he raw how
we were all pcoking. for the younger
children were behind F'lory, and found
aftorward that Charley. who had great
notions Of being smart and brave.
though he was - little. because he was
boy had the poker. shaking II ut the
stranger. The man laughed aud said In
such "a pleasant voice, pleasantor than
his smile even. Now. don't you BE-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24
None, Making Mexico.

An American with large business IN
forests In Mexico says that There 10
not a manufacturing Industry IN Mex
leo conducted on business principles
that is not paying from 70 TO 10 per
cent on the capital Invested, ana there
are any number ~ undeveiopcd hei'A
Tor Investment which are available 10
Americans with little capital"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24

coating Of metallic pigment or other
suitable substance. which Ia opaque TO
the rays. NM
Noary 100000 Engllah people at mar.
Rod ovely year. and the average annual
number % applications for divor'e 10
only 675. NM M NM. Nm
T"s properilonale mortality from can
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24

9,ilslnal again" and no on. The name OF
r.hll"nn mas no special Hignlncatlon.
ls Smith might be.
10 order 20 prevent Che photorraphing
OF 'he written maitvrAcontiined In a
olos.d envelope BY m,0us of X RAYS ths
INSIDE oi the envelope ~ covered win, a
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24

pcctor. who was Mark Twaln's partner
IN the DAYS when the material tor
'llnughlng ~ was gathered. IN sim a
miner ana is working claim near the
hWck range In New Mexico.
Summer 4. Leach OF Ploasantville.
ktoN rounty, Ne. has the hat that HIS
Srcatgreat-grandfnther wore at the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-12-24

car Is now lH times greater ina" dl "
hnif a century ago, NO oth,' IN i'm.
can ahow anythlnf Ike an'n -"
mtrse Increase ., ,al,en plsee
I'm ne irish niackerel hshlnN IN was
,hart howeye,. OF last year' Wh'V" '
under previous s.es""'
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
A Queens scientific Experiments.

The king of Portugal and his entire
court are rejoicing over the zeal and in
dustry with which Queen Amelie is de.
voting herself to the study of the
Eoentgen light. Her majesty puts in
all her time now in photographing King
Carlos and the ladies and gentlemen of
the court in order to discover what
their skeletons are like. For several
years the queen has been rapt student
of medicine, and in her enthusiastic
pursuit of medical science and by her
experiments has reduced some OF her
ladies in waiting almost to deaths
door. Now that the queen has new
hobby, the Portuguese court rejoices,
especially the king, as the queen was al
ways insisting upon his trying new
methods discovered by herself for re-
ducing his growing corpulency. 1t is
even said that in consequence the kings
gratitude to Roentgen the professor is
to be invited to the court at Lisbon, and
will receive nigh decoration from his
majesty.-Washington Times. :
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
KETCHUM, IDAHO, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER a. 1898.

which in such climate is well calcu-
lated to 'break their spirits.'' the
avowed intention of their tasl1masters.
Clouds of stinging insects hover round
their heads as they labor. nipping red
ants swarm over the exposed portions
Of their bodies. the blazing sun tor
ments them, noxious vapors choke
them. deadly serpents terrify them.
and in some cases inflict mortal
wounds. Under the terrible strain
some of them soon go mad, others COM
NIT suicide, while others. trying to es.
cape, find death from the rifles of the
guards. And what would escape from
this camp of horrors mean? Ninety
nine times in the hundred it would
mean death from starvation or fatigue
in the forest, death from wild beasts,
or death from the poisoned arrows of
the natives, who are given liberal re-
ward for every escaped convict,s body.
Boston Transcript.
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THERE ARE FEW IDEAL SPRINGS.

Practical Aspect of the Season as Conn
pared with Poets Fancies.
The poets are largely responsible for
the popular notion that the normal
spring should be all sunshine, mild
ness and flowers, instead Of the mix
ture of cold and warmth and alternate
storm and fairness which it usually is.
Occasionally, however, a poet has
caught on to the actual facts. It is
common, especially in this latitude, to
regard each particular spring as later
and more disagreeable than any of its
predecessors. But backward springs
are not novelties, as Lowell showed
when he made Hosea Bigelow say:
II rather like our backward springs
That kind O. haggle with their greens and
things
The truth is, spring is very indefi-
mite quantity and neither bird, beast
nor man is it's accurate prophet. Every
year about March time people are
seized with wonder at the backward
ness of the season-wonder not un-
moved with irritation. Loud were the
recent dennnciations at it's dilatori-
ness. Never was the month such a lion
before! Yet if my memory servestr1e
Alright we had furry of snow on April
II of last year and, in many preceding
years during the first week OF that
month, have tracked the footprints
of the rabbit in the snow" It seems
rot to be question of comparison,
however. Winter, before it is through,
drags on the best of us. We want the
warmth, the verdure and the birds
again before we have lived out the al
lotted term of cold and snow, and SO,
each year, we rebel.-Boston Tran
snrinf
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
FRENCH PENAL COLONY.
Terrible "Islands of Safety" to Which
Hardened Criminals Are Sent.

Terrible "Islands Of Safety" to Which
Hardened Criminals Are Sent.
The Islands of Safety" are three i'll
number ard lie few degrees north of
the equator, of the coast of French
Guiana. They are covered with dense
tropical forests. The climate is some
thing dreadful. For eight months Of
the year, from November to June, rain
falls continuously, the annual average
measuring 18O inches. The mercury
never drops below IS degrees Fahren-
heit, and during the four dry months
it mounts to lis degrees. It is said
that to stand bareheaded for moment
in the blazing sun is sudden death.
Add to this foul-smelling vapors anil
poisonous exhalations, and you have
truly q murderous climate. Here
France has begun to send her
anarchists and her traitors. Compared
with the Isles de Salut. New Caledonia
is little paradise.
The exiles are generally shipped in
the Bay of Biscay. Dressed in convict's
garb they are taken on board trans
ports and confined in great iron cages
on the spar deck, each cage holding 80
prisoners. Here they remain huddled
together like slaves, during the month
it usually takes to make the trip across.
When the transport reaches the Isle
de Salut the prisoners are taken to 1.
place known as the camp. This is u
clearing on which are number of large
huts, strongly constructed and IRON
barred. Inside are swung rows OF ham
naocks. The atmosphere in these hu:s
is fetid. and stinging insects and YER
min render any but the sleep of ex-
haustion impossible.
On his arrival at the camp the exile's
name Is dropped and he becomes known
only by number. Then his work is
assigned him. and killing work it is.
The newcomers are set to draining
marshes and clearing land = . task
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
Bicycle-Ostrlch Race,

A queer race was run in South Africa
a few weeks ago. For some time the
question of the speed Of an ostrich has
been subject of some discussion. and .
noted cyclist determined to test his
speed against the powerful bird. "A
smooth course was selected and the
chase began. The wheelman drove the
pedals around with great velocity and
came abreast Of the bird. No sooner
did it perceive the man than it started
at a headleng gait, and, although the
wheelman was covering ground at the
rate of mile in two minutes, the
ostrich swiftly distanced him. A stern
chase ID . long chase, and no doubt the
powers Of the rider would enable him to
overtake the ostrich in the end, bat he
could do nothing in mile race. Lon
don Truth. .-----------. -------
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
WHAT a METEOR CAN DO.

People Who Value Their Lives VIII Dodge
When Possible.
We owe our immunity 10 our att
mosphere, which serves as bullet
proof cuirass for the world. When q
meteor enters the atmosphere, the fric-
ton produced by it's gigantic speed
makes it flash up like the arrow of
Acestes, only more 50. The ingenious
experiments of Lord Kelvin have shown
that the heat thus produced just as a
brake showers sparks from a carriage
wheel, or a lucifer match lights on the
box, is sufficient to consume the meteor
as if it were suddenly cast into a fur
mace heated to three or four million
degrees. Obviously the smaller me-
teors are utterly consumed before they
have penetrated far into the atmos-
phere, which their fate has shown to
rise to a height of about 100 miles.
Only q very large one can descend,
as that of Madrid is said to have done,
to within 20 miles Of the earth, before
being burst by the expansion due to
heat and by the resistance of the air.
The fact that fragments do occasion
ally reach the earth is the best proof
of the great size of some of the meteors
that we encounter. If it were not for
the blessed air. the explosion of them
all, with the accompanying fervent
heat, would take place in our midst. It
is safe to say that such state of things
would render our great towns nnin-
habitable. In London we are somewhat
inclined to gird at the atmosphere. with
it's smoke and IT'S fog and it's east wind.
But none Of Us can tell how often it has
saved him from terrible and invisible
fate, in being, as Mark Twain has 1T,
',shot with rock" If we are more in
clined to recognize the atmosphere's
services in future, the Madrid meteor
will not have exploded in vain. London
Spectator.
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Mistaken Appreciation.

An instance of mistaken appreciation
is told of the painter Constable. He
was one day leaving the Royal academy.
where he had been busy with his col
leagues of the hanging committee in ar
ranging the pictures for the exhibition,
and at the door he met Sam, the porter,
who had been helping with the mechan-
ical part of the work.
They had just been moving into place
one Of Constable's own landscapes,
painted in his characteristic manner
and full of the spots of light which he
was accustomed to introduce into his
pictures. ''Well, Mr.. Constable, SIR
said Sam, that's picture of yours, sir!
Wonderful, sir!"
"Glad you approve of it, SAM" said
the artist, feeling in his pocket for a
shilling wherewith to encourage Sans
taste.
Wonderful, sir!" repeated the man.
II never see snow painted so natural in
my life!"-San Francisco Argonaut.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24

40 MRS. MARION BYBEE, her heirs or as
signs:
lou are hereby notified that l have ex-
pended the sum of one hundred { (1OO) dol
lars IN labor and improvements upon the
WELLINGTON
.1ue a1 mining claim, situated on Bear gulch,
=, aOout u, three miles northeasterly of Galena.
sn wood River mining district, Blaine
iPouhty, Idaho, as required by section 1924,
;n1' ;@'.Sed .S Statutes Of the United States. be-
ins ins me amount required to hold the same
tSa Il the year ending December 81, 1895
MAJ your proportion of the same is $50,
frn,g fe,,lg one-half; and if within ninety days
ninnt pn the service of this notice, or within
me,y yo,, Gays after this notice by publication
Iou nort laii or refuse to contribute your pro-
ipvtlu9n incl'9ni OF such expenditure as co-owner,
Won. yonua;lng legal costs of this publication,
prora irao interest in said claim will become the
prpiSiey propiay OF the Undersigned. under the
'O'i'iohs OF said section 1924.
Kato,...s JOHN CAREY.
'Jlnaiuna, "a Idaho, January IA, 1886.
First publication, Jan. lS. 1885
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

-PrOt. Albert kOebe1e, OF California,
has made q three years contract with
the Hawaiian government to destroy the
insect pests of the islands. His method
is to get insects harmless to man to kill
noxious insects.
* rays are to be applied to prac-
tical agriculture. DIR. Graetz, of Mu-
nich,, has taken picture of one-day-
old pig, showing it's bony structure. BY
continuing to make pictures of the pig
the action of food on it's growth will
be shown.
New possibilities in the use of the
Roentgen rays have been discovered by
DIR. Frenzel, of Berlin. Twelve sheets
Of bromide of silver paper laid one upon
the other were placed in the holder and
the picture of a frog taken. The image
was equally well defined on each sheet.
I'm Germany last year ships of 1O1,-
4O2 registered tons were built, against
117,621 tons in 1894. This is a consider
able advance as compared with 1892,
with but 4S,2O8 tons, and 1893 with 66,
474 registered tons. The report does
not include the ships built in the gov
ernment yards.
Russia is publishing the construc-
tion of the Tifis Kars railway as fast
as possible, and will probably have it
completed by August next. 1t will en-
able her to carry an army from the
Caucasus to the doors of Turkish Ar
menia. The line is 100 miles long, and
is already built as far as Alexandrapol,
50 miles from Kars.
DR.. Pie, of Montelinar. France, has
discovered q new anaesthetic. He has
found that by injecting gualacol under
the skin in small doses operations can
be performed without pain. A COM
mittee appointed by the academy of
medicine has inquired into the value of
the discovery, and has congratulated
DR.. Pie upon his achievement.
Each instrument excels in some
particular passage, the piano in scale
passages, the harp in arpeggio, the man
dolin in the rapid repetition Of one note,
the banjo in the rapid playing of broken
chords, and so with other instruments,
but the violin can beat them all on their
own ground, while there is much violin
music that can be played on no other
instrument.
English is the language that has
altered most. Regarded merely as a
Teutonic language, it is farthest re-
moved from the parent stock. It is de-
scended from the Saxon, which is the
parent of low German and Dutch, and,
as it were, the grandparent of English.
But besides the Teutonic part, which is
the groundwork OF the language, it
has suffered all the effects of a lengthy
Roman occupation.
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when . Car Wa. Near Death.

The late Russian general, Tcherevin,
was the founder of the Okhrana, or
czar's bodyguard, composed Of men OF
high rank or great wealth, who were
sworn to protect the person of Alex
ander III. It is related of Tcherevin
that one night, as he lay extended in
the dark in front of the czar's bedroom.
a figure approached. Tcherevin, believ-
ing the man whom he saw had designs
on the life of his sovereign. sprang to
his feet and leyeied pistol at the in
truder, who simultaneously pointed one
at the head of Tcherevin. each demand
ing to know why the other was there
Their voices revealed them to each
other. The man was Alexander III.
himself, who, having a haunting dread
of assassination, was on round of per-
sonal inspection Of the palace Chicago
Chronicle. &.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
BRITISH RECRUITING.

Secretly Carried On In This Country Dur
Ing the CrimeAn War.
In the North American continent tie
spirit of adventure is strong. During
the Crimean war / was an attache at
the Washington legation, and, as this
was about 40 years ago, l do not sup
pose that am disclosing any secrets
in saying what then occurred. We re-
ceived orders to recruit a force for
the Crimea. This was . fad of Lord
Panmure, who was then war minis
ter. Sir John Champion, our minister,
vainly wrote to explain that this might
get us into trouble with the United
States government. The only reply
was the order to obey. So we did. /
was sent to New York to look after the
recruiting there. We had ship in the
harbor and we found no difficulty in
filling it. A recruiter got five dollars
per man, and the man five dollars, ac-
companied with many promises of good
things. When the ship was full it was
sent to Nova Scotia, where we had a.,
governor an old soldier with the repu-
tation of being able to knock any regi-
ment into shape. The government OF
the United States soon got wind of our
proceedings at New York, and at Mag
ara, where we had Hungarian en-
ployed to slip recruits across the from
tier. The result was that the mem.
bers of the legation at Washington and
the consuls at New York and one or
two other places received their pass :
ports. What particularly amused me
was that the consul at New York had
had nothing to do with the matter.
But we had elaborated far grander
scheme. We had found q sort Of fill
clustering general, who had agreed to
provide us with several thousand men,
who were to be recruited in Texas and
the adjoining southern states. These
were to be commanded by the general
The negotiations went off, because
while we were prepared to give him
the local rank of general in the Crimea
he insisted upon being made what he
called a full general in the British army.
To this we could not assent.
could never discover what became
of my New York recruits. They were
landed in Nova Scotia, and shortly aft.
erwards the governor telegraphed that
they had rebelled, and that he was go
ing to take steps to reduce them to a
fitting state of discipline. This was the
last heard of them.
The governor was somewhat of dun
derheaded man. We wanted Q forget
why) to have a ship sent from Nova
Scotia to Jamaica. We had cipher die
tionary, but could not find the word
Jamaica in it, so telegraphed the code
words for liam" and 'acre." This was
too much for the governors intelli-
gence. Again and again he telegraphed
to ask where the ship was to go; again
and again l telegraphed back, refer
ring him to the code words for jam
''acre." Finally we had to send a mes
senger with a letter.-London Truth.
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6olidif1es Under Heat.

A German chemist has made the dis
covery of new compound body which
is said to possess the peculiar quality Of
solidifying under the action Of heat
and again to revert to the liquid state
at temperature below thirty-two de-
grees Fahrenheit. To this substance
the name of 'crostase" has been given
and it is stated to be obtained by mix
ing equal parts of phenol, camphor and
saporine with the addition Of smaller
proportion of the essence of treben-
thine. 1t is supposed that up to the
present time no body possesses this re-
markable property of lquefying when
cold and solidifying when hot. Certain
substances, such as albumen, harden
when exposed to the heat, but once
they have attained this condition they
cannot be made to resume the liquid
state, although they may be subjected
to exceedingly low temperatures.-N
Y Sum-
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-09-24
Thousands OF Hens on One Ranch.

Some hopeful spectators who have
been counting unmatched chickens are
about to start poultry ranch near San
Francisco which is to be the largest ia
the world. 1t is to reach it's full capacity
in three years, when it is to put, on the
market annually 100000 eggs and 9O,-
900 chickens for broiling. The plant
will include two incubators, with. a ca
pacity of 1000 eggs each, and no end Of
houses and pens, which will be con-
tanned in a 40-acre ranch. There will be
900 hens laying for the incubators and
10000 laying for the market.-Chicago
Chronicle,
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Pocket Electricity.

A number of devices have lately been
invented by which an electric lamp con
be carried about and used like candle
or lantern. Some of these are complete
in themselves, carrying a battery that
operates only when the lamp which
may be Of almost any desired shape,
that of pocket flask, for instances
held in a particular position. When thus
held the acid in the reservoir reaches
the battery poles, and the incandescent
light blazes out. On reversing the lamp
the light fs extinguished. In other cases
a stronger light is provided by means
Of q separate battery, which may, how
ever, be carried in the pocket. It pro-
posed to substitute this form of porta-
BILE electric lamp for the ordinary
lantern in the ambulance service OF the
French army.-Youth's Companion.
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y.ls.r,.ins Roentgen Rays.

Roentgen rays are becoming vulgar
lied rapidly. PROT Brouardei, OF the
municipal laboratory Of Paris has used
them to find the contents Of internal
machines, and has seen nails, screws,
cartridges and even the grains Of powder
in bomb. An Englishman asserts
that he can tell pure claret from adI'-
,erated by the use Of the rays. In Der
lin they have been introduced in new
farce. An English photographers, who
sent out picture of foot showing an
imbedded needle, received telegram
from customer, saying: "Phctograms
received very tame. Send more sensa-
tional ones, such as interior Of belly,
backbone, brains, liver, kidneys, hears,
lungs. soul. IN. Y. Sun.
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Japan's Ancient Banking House.

Commercial houses which have ex-
listed for over 100 years are by no means
common in Europe, and quite rare in
this country. 1t is curious to note that
commercial houses hundred or more
years old are quite frequent in China
and japan, where great many firms
have for centuries been handed down
from father to son, and remained
in the family. The oldest existing
business is probably Japanese bank
ing house at Kobe, which has for more
than $50 years been in the hands Of one
and the same family, the style of the
firm not having changed once in this
long period.-Detroit Free Press.
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