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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
,BULLFIGHT BOMBAsT.
OpAnlsh ToreAdors Are Not Unlike
Her Statesmen In Claiming
Tt VictOrieA.

"These constant victories won by
our friend, the enemy" remarked the
man who had seen Spain to a reporter
for the New York Sun. "remind me OF
the Herculean labors performed for
public amusement in the bull ring at
Madrid. 5tsgt3 aC1s
THE chief toreador comes out, stalks
about the arena, swings his bright-col-
ored draperies, and finally, halting be-
fore the royal Enclosure, puffs up his
chest and pounds upon his manly bosom
with clenched fist.
"'Oh! mighty and magnificent poteu-
tate he calls, do but cast down the key,
that I may go and drag from his Lair the
furious beast! s94 I 4-ss
"Then, with great strides, he passes
to q gate, unlocks and opens it. Out
comes a puny, measly, bloodless little
bull calf, that has been kept half starved
In q darkened pen to prepare ii for the
prowess of the fighter. Attendants
goad the poor, frightened creature
through the usual spectacular perform
ance. When the furious beast oughtto
die, the toreador slaughters it, and
quickly its emaciated body is dragged
away.
= "'Behold, oh. majestic monarch
shouts the fighter. I have triumphed
over the savage foe of, man; I have
brought to dust the raging beast, as I
will bring all of its kind forever
''Then he paiades himself around.
while the crowd goes wild with delight.
tell you. it's a grandiloquent vocaba-
larry that keeps things a-going in Spain.
At word-painting the Dons are artistA"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
MILK IN THE cocoANUr.
There Are Two Good Ways Of Getting
~ ut It when One Wants -
&2 Drink IL.

Every boy knows the three eyes to be
found in one end OF cocoanut, and
many boy has bored these eyes out.
or one or two OF them, with the small
blade of a pocketknife 80 a. to geta at the
milk in the cocoAnut, which he has then
drained out into cup or drunk direct
from the cocoanut itself. But there Is
q more fascinating way still Of getting
at the milk in the cocoanut.
By this other method the cocoanut is
opened at the other end from the eyes.
The cocoanut il struck all around
gently and repeatedly with hammer,
or a stone will do, at . distance of
about one-third of the way down from
the top. about where the arctic circle
would be on a globe.
A continual gentle tapping will final
ly crack the she'll OF the nut all around;
not in a line exactly on the circle, per-
haps, but pretty near to 1t. Sometimes
1t cracks shell and meat of the nut, too.
SO that both can be lifted of together;
sometimes 1t cracks out only a shell
cap at the top, which is lifted of, and
the cap OF meat underneath is then cut
out around with knife.
And then there you are with white
lined cocoanut cup to drink from.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
THE INDIAN BLusHED.
How He Quietly Rebuked the Girls
for Their ImpertiAeAeo
aAd Carl0sity.

Visitors at the worlds fair in 1893
will recall the Indian exhibit or en-
campment on the shore of the south
pond. One of the tents or wigwams
was occupied by an athletic and fine
looking, but somewhat taciturn, speci-
men of young Indian manhood as his
particular home, and while it was open
at all proper times for the inspection Of
visitors, be resented any approach oim-
pertinent curiosity. says Youths Com
panion.
A bevy Of young women dropped into
his tent one day before his usual hour
for opening it, and found him sewing a
rent in blanket.
"See how he blnshes!" exclaimed one
of the visitors. eve have caught him
doing squaw's work"
"Why, that's his natural color" gig
gled another. Tie always bushes"
"Yes. young ladies'" said the Indian,
in perfectly good English. "he bushes
for some Of the civilized aud enlightened
white Americans of the nineteenth CEN
tury."
The visitors joined him in blushing
and shortly afterward went out with
out further remarks.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
AMERICANS IN PARIS.
rAa Men Have Meth er the Inclinatlon
Nor Opportunity 1or Long.
Visits. @

A recent article in LIE Figaro. OF Paris,
i. devoted to the American colony in
that city. 1t says that the colony has
Always played the important and bril-
liant role in society chiefly because
most OF the Americans were Amen
Gaines" ut is certain" continues lie
figaro, that out OF ten 'Americaines
esiding in Paris there is but one Amer
can. Affairs-'business.' as they say
over there--absorbs the sterner sex In
he United States. In that country the
men have neither the inclination nor
be opportunity for much leisure and
only pay us very short visits.
"While their wives install themselves
here the good husband only makes fy-
:ne visits. and is very seldom referred
% in, the elegant salons OF the wives.
The writer continues: II was atan of1'-
cal ball not long ago. where one OF
them was the hero OF a curious his
toire. He wrote on the lapel OF his coat
a brilliant star, which struck me as
original and somewhat curious in form.
Although very artistic. the order was
unknown 70 me-. Some indiscreet per-
son iuterrogated the Yankee as to what
order il was. The Yankee replied. In I;
phlegmatic tone: IT tismy own compo-
eition. et-@
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
VIA PNEUMATIC TUBE.
The Way Dinners May BE Served In
the Near Future II We 10
Desire It.

An inventor has worked out scheme
by which q restaurant company, or q
municipal kitchen like that at Grenoble.
France. could supply any number of
patrons with hot dinners via pneumatic
tube, and do away at the same time
with dish washing in the home, says tn.
Philadelphia Times.
The idea is to lay pneumatic sub
way from the manufacturing kitchen
or restaurant, with branches to the
dining-rooms Of pa irons. AT the proper
points valves worked by electricity
from the restaurant shut off the tube
ahead and divert the vessels travelling
in the tube to the house for which they
were intended.
The various edibles, including soups,
dessert, etc., are to be inclosed in air.
tight metal balls. enameled in different
and pleasing colors. These balls will
have tops that unscrew, and each pa
tron will be provided with proper tool
to unscrew his dinner. he will then set
the lids to one side. place the pretty
circular dishes made OF the lower
halves in wire or other stands on his
dining-room table, and proceed to dine.
After each meal be will screw the
covers on again, drop the balls, with all
refuse, back into a return pneumatic
tube, and light Ibis cigar in peace, with
no worry about dish washing, and moth.
ing else to do but pay the bills. y
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
WHITE LEATHERS.
C0whide, Cnlfslkin and SheepskiA,
aaA the Cses to Whlch They
Are Chieny Put.


White cowhide has long been used for
various purposes, though its place has
now been taken to considerable ex-
tent by other and cheaper feathers. 1t
is used, for example, in making sus-
pender tips, and it's use in making mill
tary belts is familiar. For this purpose
1t is made up with the flesh side out, and
the belts are whitened as occasion may
require With chalk or pipe clay, ays the
New York Sun. 80
White calfskin is more extensively
used than white cowhide. White calf
is used for fine and costly work in book
binding, it may be for gift books, and
sometimes for prayer books. White
calf 10 also used for suspender tips.
More extensively used than. either
white cowhide or white calfskin are the
white sheeps{ins. White sheepskin is
used also for suspender tips, and for
covering trusses and other articles OF
metal, and for the trimmings OF shoes.
It is used for book binding, especially
for the binding Of medical books, ia
which use it Is hrst sprinkled with =
eeloring material which gives II mot
tied appearance.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
PIE Is TABoOED.


Pic, that good, old-tashioned New
England staple, is doomed. II modern
educators have their way, says the New
York Press. In the public schools OF
Boston Instructors keep watch and
ward not only over the mental pabulum
of their pupils, but they prescribe for
their MONDAY luncheons the things that
il is hygienically and scien tifcally prop
er for boys and girls to eat.
Some of the wise Bostonians viewed
with anxiety the youth Of the city nom
chalantly munching pie, cake and other
indigeStibles at their noon recess, ut
.terly Indifferent to any result more re
mote than the immediate qualification
Of their appetites> Science applied TO
the members Of the committee on hy-
giene of the Boston school board had
an order passed providing that only
such food as was approved by them
should be sold in any of the city school
houses. This was aimed at the janitors
and others who had been catering to
the demand for pies and cake by car
rying on brisk noonday trade in such
viands. The New England kitchen. .
semi-pailanthropic experiment in scien-
tific cooking and food production, was
asked to supply the luncheons that boys
and girls ought to have.
The first plan was to have two grades
Of luncheons-a ten-cent lunch, consist
ing Of cup OF soup, milk or cocoa, with
crackers, two slices Of bread and but
ter and fruitior simple cake. and a Eve
cent lunch. consisting of sandwich.
bread and butter, with fruit, cocoa and
crackers or milk and crackers. Ten
cent lunches, however. did not prove
popular, so all sorts Of combinations
possible for five cents have been made.
If a pupil wants more than that he buys
two or three lunches, according to the
degree Of his appetite and the state Of
his flna noes 2sz,ez s
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
LOVE AMONG LAPLANDERS.
Curious Customs That Are Stiil IN
Vogue Among Inhabitants Of
TgsIatg the Icy Land. s

When a young Laplander IL in love
is heavily handicapped. so that she may
win If she chooses. and If she outrun
him he cannot propose again. OF course
she suffers herself to be overtaken il
she cares for him. but the consent of
her parents must be obtained before
she can be married. The law Of the
land is very strict on this point, and
in olden times the man was subject to
capital punishment if he married with
out the consent of the girls parents.
After a Laplander has chosen a bride
he sends her a present OF a girdle, a
ring and a quantity of brandy; he
goes as far as the door Of her hut, but
remains outside until invited to enter,
when bumper Of brandy is offered to
the girls father; if he drink it is
sign he consents to the marriage, and
the young lover then promises to give
the girl some clothes, and pays a sum
of money, generally 100 copper dollars,
on the spot. This, of course, is rem
nant of marriage by purchase, which,
in primitive times, succeeded marriage
by capture. Banns are published once
in Lapland and the marriage ceremony
is very short. The bride wears her hair
loose and has a gold band round her
head. Her presents and her dowry are
generally reindeer. and she and her
bridegroom remain with her parents
for year after marriage.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
IN A NAVAL ENGAGEMENT.
1Gen Are Silent and Orderly sna Are
Sinply Part Of the Mashin-
cry Of the ShiD.

We are all curious to know how the
men who man the guns on . warship
are affected by MISREPRESENTATION
er they are full of the excitement OF con-
fict that soldiers experience in battle.
II. C. Skinner, of Hudson, Mass, who is
on the Cincinnati, which took part in
the attack on Matanzas, answers the
question in letter to the Hudson En-
terprise, ~ follows: 0e
'.You are just one of the parts of the
fighting machinery of the ship. and you
must do Just AZ you are told, without
asking questions or wondering why you
are doing it. must say that had al-
ways supposed that an engagement of
the kind would work man up to the
highest notch: that his blood would boil
in his veins, and that his brain would
reel from the madness Of excitement.
thought that cheer after cheer would
pour from the throats of eager sailors;
that the tight of battle would shine in
their eyes till they cleaned. thought
that men new to battle behaved like
demons, or like the proverbial tiger who
had tasted blood and would not be satis-
fled until he had gorged himself to re-
pletion. But there was no sight Of any
thing like that. The men were silent and
orderly in going to their stations at the
sound OF general quarters i could see
little difference from the ordinary pro-
ceedings at drill"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
MARRIAGE CUSTOMS.
10 . Relic Of P1AA1.
tive Times,

Until the middle OF the sixteenth
century Christian marriage eonAiated
Of two distinct ceremonies--the be-
trothai or espousals, which were fol-
lowed at q considerable interval. some
times extending to two years, by the
benediction or complete marriage.
Many modern marriage customs are
relics of primitive times. For instance,
the throwing Of old shoes after the
newly married pair 10 . remnant Of
marriage by capture, when the brides
relations threw stones and other mis-
siles after the bridegroom % he rode
off with his captured bride. The honey
moon is . relic Of the enforced seclusion
in which . captured bride and her cap
turer lived after the bridegroom had
secured his wife; and the traditional
hatred of mothersin-law 10 merely .
survival Of the old feud between the
bridegroom and the brides family.
Groomsmen are another remnant of
marriage by capture. They were origi-
nally the brides bodyguard when
she was pursued BY her bridegroom
and his friends. Then later they used
to be attached to the brides procession,
and had nothing to do with the BRIDE
groom. Because their Office was re-
duced to . sinecure, they were armed
with lapces. and carried lighted torches
for these captures were generally at-
tempted At night.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
cOMpLExITY OF BArTIEsHIps.
Alnaost RvePy Move Made By the Nod
srn Sea Fighter 10 Controlled
~ Machinery.

In the Iowa TT may almost be said
that nothing 10 done BY hand except the
opening and closing Of throttles and
pressing Of electric buttons. Her guns
are loaded. trained and fred, her am
munition hoisted, her turrets turned
her orpedoes-mechanism Of them
selves-are tubed and elected, the ship
steered. her boats hoisted out and in,
the interior lighted and ventilated. the
great searchlight operated and even or
ders transmitted from bridge or con-
ming tower to all paEts by mechanical
appliances. Surely no more striking
view than this Of the Development Of
IS years could be afforded, says Cas-.
sier's Magazine.
This growth Of eomplexity and elab-
oration and this almost infinite multi
plication Of parts ands devices have en-
tailed upon the naval. architect and
constructor demands and. difficulties
never dreamed OF in the earlier days
The staff required to design and con-
struct an Iowa is multiplied in number
and the complexity of it's organization
Is augmented as compared with that re-
quired for the design and construction
of the New Ironsides almost definitely.
Similar conditions apply to command
and management, so that while the
building OF modern battleship entails
enormous work and responsibility on
the naval architect, constructor and
staff, the effective use of her as q tool
in the trade Of war presents an equal
variety and intricacy Of problems to
students Of the art Of naval warfare.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
EARLY POSTAL SYSTEMS.
Rome Had the Best Organized sys-
tenn OF Delivery Of All the An-
Client States.


We 6nd the first recorded postal sys-
tenn In the Persian empire under Cyrus
the Elder; but it is clear that Rome OF
all the ancient states possessed the best
organized system of transmitting let
ters through its numerous provinces.
All along the great Roman roads houses
were erected at distance of five or six
miles from each other. Ateach ct these
stations 40 horses were constantly kept
and by the help of relays it was easy to
travel 100 miles in day.
These services were intended for the
state only, It being imperative to secnre
the rapid interchange of oficial COM
munications. In the time OF Julius
Caesar the system was 80 well organized
that of two letters the great soldier
wrote from Britain to Cicero at Rome.
The one reached its destination in 20
aud the other in IS days. Private citi-
zens had to trust to the,1erviccs of slaves
and 1t Is not until the end of the third
century that we hear Of the establish
ment Of a postal system for private per-
sons by Emperor Diocletian, but how
long this system remained history does
not say. m
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30

Unusual Chances In War Time. Bat
Plenty Of Opportunities ALI
the T4mo. ~

~In war time" said a man OF mature
years. "there are always unusual
chances that are taken advantage Of by
men Of foresight to make money. This
reminds me of what Josh Billings said,
that If our foresight was as good as our
hindsight we'd all be rich,' or words to
that effect
''At the outbreak Of the civil war in
this country there were long-headed
men who stored away manufactured
cotton goods, bleached and unbleached
cottons, sheetings. and 80 on. AS the
war went on. what with the curtailment
of production and the blockade of
southern ports, the price of cotton
scared skyward and manufactured cot
ton goods increased in value CORE
spoudirgly. Most men peddled out
their holdings as the price rose, but
some held on and got for their goods
six or eight times what they paid for
them.
There has been no such money as
that made in this war yet, and don't
suppose there's likely to be, butit would
De easy to pick out things that have
risen greatly in value and that man
might easily lave made fortune on if
he'd known what was going to happen.
Suppose he'd have brought all the bunt-
ing there was, for instance, or taken
iall on, OF sulphur, or put away a few
hund red cases of Spanish olives. He'd
have found money in all these things
and in various others But then man
can find money in time OF peace. too. Ii
he knows how to look"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
GOODNESS OVER THE FLAG.


There IS painful coolness between
two women who live in big apartment
house uptown, and an American flag II
at the bottom of It. The flag is huge
affair. made of bunting. The woman
who owns it says in extenuation that
her husband bought it, and that you
know how men are about buying things.
1t came home late one evening last
week, and its patriotic owner insisted
on ninging it to the breeze at once, that
it might wave oil night. Accordingly
the pole was dxed to the window sill,
and Old Glory streamed out into the
night, says the Washington Post.
The woman who occupies the apart
ment Immediately under the window
from which the flag hung is very nerv-
Gus person. That night she was awak-
ened by soft, swishing sound against
the window. It was like the rustic of
garment. and the nervous woman
thought frst OF burglars and secondly
of ghosts. She was afraid to get out of
bed to look out of the window, but she
huddled up with her back to the wall
and shivered the night away.
Again and again she was sure she
heard soft, ghostly fingers at the win
dow. She could feel her hair turning
white. She says she didn't sleep wink.
After 80 or 40 hours. she says. morning
came, and she ventured to the window
and raised the blind. There hung the
flag, Tipping against the window with
every breeze.
The nervous woman is courageous BY
daylight She drew table to the win
dow, climbed upon it, pulled the win
dow down from the top, and, reaching
out as far as she could. calmly proceed
ed to cut the end OF the flag of. The
woman who owns it says that anybody
who would mutilate her country's flag
is traitress. and the woman who did
1t says that some people haven't the
sense they ought to have been born
with, and, as began by saying, there Ia
. marked coolness up at that apartment
house.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
cATN1p FOR THE CATS.
NaA Of Boston Popular with
the FelineA,

Speaking Of cats, . young mar li"ing
in East Lexington has become the fene-
factor of several downtown Toms, who,
having passed tht.r lives in Office build
ings, never tasted the intoxicating cat
nip. He is great friend OF cats in gen.
eral, and when he began work in the
city the frst thing he noted was the
useful animals that prowled around the
corridors, patrolling for rats. relates
the Boston Herald. So this young man
from East Lexington took pity on theis
condition by filling his pockets with
fresh catnip and freely distributed II
among the crowd on arriving at his
place of business. The effect was in
.stantaneous. The Pied Piper Of Ham
elm was nowhere Such AZ experience
these creatures may have I-eamed, but
had never realized, and some nearly had
fits. the herb was 50 intoxicating, while
others vainly tried to express their
gratitude for the kind attention.
Therefore, don't forget the downtown
business cat. Recollect he needs his
salad as much as the human being.
See that he has some grass to eat now
and then, and little catnip to cheer
him up when. times are hard.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-07-30
ICE CREAM CENTURIES AGO.
The Delicious summer Confectton
First s1aan0la04uaoAa N lAAly-aSe
aew~ylt osasAnateA. -s

: r.. 4.
Early June days generally see the ies
cream and soda parlors doing . stead
lily Increasing business Ice creamaia
= a,much older sweetmeat than many
persona suppose. In the Beginning OF
the seventeenth century gobiets made
Of ice and also iced ffuit-that Is, fruit
frozen over - were first brought 70
table. The limonadiers, ar Lemonade,
sellers. Of Paris. endeasored toincreAte
the popularity of their wares BY ysiciag
them, and one, more enterprising than
the rest, an Italian named Procope
Couteaux, In the year 1861 conceived
the idea of converting such beverages
entirely Into ice, and about 20 years
!ater Iced liquors-that is, liquors
changed into ice-were the principal
things sold by the limonadiers. BY the
end Of thatscentury iced liquors were
quite common in Paris. > rs -
Ice cream, or iced "butter,"a as II was
first called, from its supposed resem-
blanee to that substance, soon followed.
1t was FIRST known in Paris in 1774.
Due de Chartres often went at that, time
TO the Paris coffee-houses to drink q
glass OF iced liquor, and the landlord
having one day presented him with his
''arms" formed in edible ice, this kind
Of sweetmeat became the fashion. Ger
man cooks at once took up the new art.
I, wax not long in reaching England, for
in i776 a French cook resident in Lon
don. named Clermont, wrote THE,
Modern Cook" in which sweet ices were
first described for the instruction of
English cooks. The ice cream of
these days is an enormously elaborated
Aweetmeat compared with that Of the
olden time.
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force. He issued proclamation cbarg-
ing O with being he most undutiful soa.
in the province. and his whole family
as iznmoraL Co. The law requires the gov
from t1e ftcTptshe earth. and he (Cho
Py4ng-sikl sdispatched company OF
the governors bodyguard to the. town
where the Q family lived. destroying
every house In the village, anil killing
eight personsgsnd injuring six. After
~ ahus'extcrminating theO's thegovernor
the site of their house and
bpik asvaulf On it far bis future grave.
The court has pow restored the proper
~ ~ the lawful heirs and made Mr..
Cho pay "a indemnity Of $4,000 for the
murder Of the eight persons.-