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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31
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rms-nqeored Spots Deangs -
srWlped Hom Nlsw
Notwithstalaaing the sentiment IN
the connpnwealth aRsinst Va 1aoli +
xion at. the state House 1t wiu hAy4 e
10. wrfitfks e. w. Wilfred Pearce, ~of
BOSTON, to 'th6. New York Sun The
aravines Of . new suilding have been
0dnDtetzd, and tie work 6f fc6hstructioh
viii begin next March. - -zz.--=------.- -
The process of disfiguring the public
espAea AaA the oonanaon foee mersll5
On. The old burying ground on the
co~an,ea, wheRein rested tth 3qnes 4
nsnv -soldferS to4 theoreVolution and
Julien, the inventor Of Julien soup,
has been vandklksd byt promoters
Of that queer esncspieh. w subway,
in which electric cars running sontn
and west are to gni b.a dssa Al ~.
Within short time the common Wall
b grabbed BY politicisus and real %
tate SpecuhtorA Flaws have been dis
covered II the title. snd, as for ten
vears It has rAeep suffered tp edesays
Bostenians take little pride In it; the
new 1ppatkss iAver vfvea the tsstAefa pie
common = death blow.
Aeren peanut and, balloon rped4leFe
and two Manifestations assd 70 e3tef
~ - nxnnta.af, eltQplaaa h1Zs eona
as skop, owing to the decay o. Gsoe On
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31
lvVANTTWO SMOKESTACkS.

Rn1uaAn Jews Refuse to Travel onS VseseA
Equipped with But One.
, A steamship ticket agent on the East
side whose business is chiefly with POI
lsh and RussiAn Hebrews who are
about to return to their homes tells of
. peculiarity,of his customers, says the
New York Tribune. No one OF them
wants to travel on q vessel having only
one smokestack. Somehow these 'peo-
ple have an idea that ship is not safe,
handsome, comfortable and speedy un-
less she has two or three stacks. Their
passage costs them only twenty dollars,
and they, are not solicitous about baths
or the decorations of their quarters,
but on the point of a single funnel they
are as frm as rock. A great many
passenger steamships have only one
stack. Some new ones in which the
isteerage Recommendations are especial
flyroomysandi well ventilated have no
, more. ,and the returning Poles insist
they will not travel on them. The
ticket agents feel no compunction
about assuring their customers that the
ship on which they are going to sail
has three ''rochers" {smolxers), as the
Hebrews1c4li.them, and even point to
y big picture of her ON the wall, which
serves as the likeness of any vessa
which may, be talked of. lt 5r..
When the man and his family arrive
at the pier on the day Of sailing there
is likely to be trouble when he dis
covers that his ship has only one mis-
cradle smekestack. 4 Sometimes the
people refuse point-blank to go ON
board, and say they will wait for a
steamer with three smokers" An eff
fective ssubterfuge has been invented
for such cases. Solemn assurance is
given that the ship has three or four
smokestacks,4bu but that all but one short
one were taken down so that the ship
could pass under the Brooklyn bridge.
As soon as she got ont to, sea the ad~
ditional stacks would be put in place
and she would speed proudly on her
way The ignorant East slider doesn't
know that vessels passing to sea from
! the Hudson river never get within tive
miles of the bridge, and takes his fami-
ly on board. What. he. says. and does
when he learns that he has been de-
ceived does not bother. the ships off,
GERS particularly. - - -..!. "
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+ MADE THEM NERVOUS.

4, Bear Walked In = Y6llowStono Hoess
sad 17Aglsd With the 0ussta. I'll :
:. At the hotel which. was located 1T
the, Upper Geyser Basin, but burned
last winter, there was last summer .
big black bear who slept under the
house, and became SO tame that the
guests fed him, and one evening tho
porters enticed him into the hotel Office
with SUGAR. He came in, walked
through the big lobby. smiled 1t the
telegraph instrument rs though he
understood that it was clicking mes
sages back to the great cities OF Amer
ica, and the walked to the front door
gazing out at Old Faithful, and hesita.
ting, about his return to the pine woods
beyond This playful prank Of the
porters was, however. enjoyed more
after bruin had gone than while he was
in the hotel. ''%''' :. '.tsStst'' -
> The guests, who had no fear Of him
out at the garbage box or around the
grounds of the hotel, were, somewhat
nervous when he took possession of the
big lobby, where they were sitting
about the big, open wood fire, talking
shout what they would do il q bear
should walk INTO the hotel. They sat
like statues. and Manager Howe, who
had fed bruin from. his hand outside,
felt that this was a closer acquaint-
ance than he desired to cultivate.
He thought the bear might next move
on the dining-room and play the part
Of the bull in the china shop. Mr..
Haynes, the official photographer, of
the parlt, sat near enough to the door
to'lay his hand upon bruin, but he did
not attempt to get his picture, though
he had been waiting years for a bear
to come up and sit for his photograph.
The kodak enthusiasts were too nerv-
GUS to even press s!the button and get q
snap shot. They all felt more COM
Portable when the bear walked, out the
front door, across the veranda, and out
across the lawn to the pine woods.
Manager Howe told the Porters
that while he wanted to keep
ON friendly, and even intimate,
terms with the bear, he did not
want him to infringe the rules against
dogs being. allowed in the parlor or
dining-roon, and a bear, gentle and
friendly as he might be, could not be
allowed privileges not given to the
dogs. aoir siit S7ita8t tt.i 10 q
}s That bear; says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, still haunts the Upper Basin,
but the hotel which sheltered him has
been burned, and Mr.. Howe has only .
lunch station there now, but he finds
him out at the garbage box just as be-
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outer air. The difference Of The at-
mosphere Of the restaurant was not
lost on the public; the ibusinessi rs-
turned and soon went beyond al form
er records. A writer in an electric Jour-
nal tells Of an experience in 2 factory
gallery were huge Va Is were simmering.
The coolest man in the factory was tho
attendant standing over the watts, who
was briskly blown upon by little fan
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31

: s.tfGoa dieI x3u ilaep ,hy the side Of
your grave ~ the rest of nay, lfe. :
fi{l rsnarafab abl6 Vdw was made ffteen
3sEss agd to his siclt w'fffts ~ Edwin T.
MORRISON, at that 'tfuasl shief. clerk sof
tho Peapsyf1aniA freight department.
, and : protege ~ Ralph sRetens tia
gupexiptendept Of tA4 Me0 A189pn
81 fhe feunsy11a43e Aead, He 4Qar
II;os,vsd h1s wit1s t0dy - III trass, ana
reunauIalslia di1Aed AeaAde4t nntH The w
stoa. naessd II rttJ sysbe, sdhstq1Sy 14
the peu'4) 4)e5es 1loyEet bin q alMpa
. snail tool hppse nsor ~. And now
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31
THE WATERMELON NET.

A CoAvsnisut Contrivsnoe for Caxsyiag
aty. Home the Massive Frais.4
The invention of the watermelon net
was due primarily to q change in the
shape of watermelons Years ago the
great majority of watermelons were
much longer than they were thick.
watermelon which he had bought, the
dealer, took, . ,turP around one end Of it
with stout cord, carried, the cord
along to the other end, and took an
other turn there, and the connecting
length of cord between the loops
served asa handle, while the shape of
the melon kept the loops from slipping
of. But with the change of the. melon
to the shorter, chubbier shape now
prevailing this plan was no longer pos
sible, and SO the net came in six or
eight years ago. p : ~ 1.''.t.'9
,. lThe'watermelon nets, says the New
York. sun, are made, of jute twine
called melon twine. They are of one
size. They are big enough for any
melon, and with small melon in net
It ID easy to take mp the slack. They
are made altogether by hand, at odd
times by people accustomed to net
making. They are sold at wholesale ut
two dollars, . hpndred.s7 The melon
dealer used to charge Ave cents for .
net, but now most dealers give the nets
away.
notwithstanding their bulk many
! melons Are carried home by the pur-
chaser. 8 The tsubufben resident may
, spot q pa1ticularly fne melm and take
it right along with him. in . nets man
living in the city may do. the same
thing. Whatever the circumstances
under which . nah wants to takea
melon with him the net il a great con-
venience, it beats e4rry1ng the wstete
melon under the arm ont nf sight ~
"a But while many melons are thus car
ried in the course qf the season. still
the great majority, Of wster@elQn2 are
sent home ju3t Tie other things and
10 rafter all the bale of ~ 4tArmefdn nets
,azA6sntsl u caiys ssw th6,aAA4ds Ah-
nuAlly. sl1s f:s ~ f5ts.s 80 tisssi ssi's
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! TWO LOST LETTERS.


X pellsd 10 Use Thsir VITA b
An English merchant was advised by
his agent that . check of six hundred
pounds sterling would be sent to him
by the next mail, says Mr.. Baines in
his "Forty Years at the Post Office" II
did not come and the merchant ut once
made complaintlat the post Office. The
postman ON that route was called in by
the postmaster, and, in answer to ques-
tions, said that the missing packet was
duly received and delivered. He re-
membered it distinctly-its shape, col
or and postmark. As his habit was he
had poked it under the house door,
with two other letters and a newspa-
per. The merchants wife had picked
up three packets and was positive there
had not been q fourth.
The postmaster went to the house
and examined it carefully. Then he
looked into the back garden. His eye
s&ghte3S on. litter of puppies. :. A
thought struck him. Ea@a
'HAw the dog kennel cleared oat,
p1ease.n 81 @ !.
'eNonSense! Why?~
Kindly have it cleared"
''Well, if it must be. Thomas, take
out the straw. "a
On the floor ofsthe kennel, torn into
q hundred Bits, lay the missing letter
and, check. A current of air along the
passage had blown the letter about.
The puppies, naturally enough, had
pounced upon it rs . plaything and had
had good time. k4S
A merchant complained of the loss of
q letter mailed from his office contain
ing some hundreds Of pounds in Bank
Of England notes. Finally an expert
from the post Office department called
upon him.
Believe me, SIR" the expert said, "I
have an, object in what l ask. VIII
-you kindly sit ut your desk and recall
oech operation connected with the miss
ing letter."
with pleasure. / sit here, take q
sheet Of this note paper and one Of
those covers. Then 1 write my letter
and fold it up 60. Next 90 to my
safe and taks ont the notes, enter their
numbers. fold them, put them in the
letter and the letter in the cover. Then
/ seal them all up as you see me do"
"Just 50, and what next?"
: '.Why.my clerk comes in and clears
OF my desk for the post. sss
s "Rut you wrote this one at noon, and
the post does not go out before night" I"
"Oh, yes, of course! quite forgot to
say that money-letter, for greater se-
curity, put in a left-hand drawer"
(Which One?"
Z (Which? y Why, this one. I open lit
90 and I-bless my soul! Goodness me!
I am very, very sorry for all the trouble
I've given. Here is the letter.
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that famous ground. Even well-bred
Boston dogs consider it bad form TO I
bathe In the frog pond where the foun-
tain sqairts only ON Sunday. The good
old man who for many years has served
the city on Flagstaff hill told me, with
tears in his eyea. that the s'Ohld conn
mon q going to the divil entirely"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31
MendIng Cleopatra's Needle.

Cleopatras, Needle, on the Place de-
Ia Concorde,i Paris, il being mended.
lest another severe winter like the Hast
should andsnger the sobelisk. A crack
has existed in the. pyramid ever since
it was first erected in Paris. and as the
filing up Of the fsaure has perished
through time. Il Is being replaced BY
new material
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31
.NFTI ~ IT = il q - ? ~
. New Uase Tar E1ectr trAcafy.

y, New .Uass Ear E1ectrAcaty. .iisasn
IL A:well-known New York 1terer who
owns large Restaurant gives 70 the
rk1Acffie nm the credit OF saYing 4im
4ron bankruptcyt The szneU OF his
kitchen became 90 pervaaasb .1hat 1T
waS-drstin& Ill thI customers away.
| zA9ter ;vain1Y trying different remedies
he bsdt = large tan g 4xed thAt "a! s]hthe
fumes tha a6dkiRglEfEa dn!n
rp : SHAFT and passed into the
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31
Bicycle Anects summer Resorts.

A new phase sot the bicycle fad has
come to light, says the New York corr
respondent of the Pittsburqh Dispatch,
and itsbodes no FOOD to the hotel men
at the shore or at the mountains.
Thousands OF New York wage-earners,
as weA asmore favored ones, who have
heretofore spent from two weeks to
two mopthsa in the country each snn-
ss31 u 33ys this gar iDtea4e thdir
savings in the alluring wheel and will
stay at home, speeding Jpn the boule-
wards and through the parks of New
York, Brooklyn and New Jersey When
papa says to the ruler 81 the household
now: "Wel1, where shall we go for the
summer?" Mother casts an eye on her
new 6iooperss and replies. aOut on the
Riverside dfives evesy day. Besides,
-you must get new wi.eefs fQF esehuf
the gifIa wheb they dsans Home from
schooL~ So The bicycle fever has
caieRhtn6s an sssas E{7.}s 4 so sss5ssx
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Edward L. Morrison, once the hand
some, debonair railroad man, lis old,
wfinlled and haggard, but still sits in
his rude hut by the side of the tomb a
the woman he loved SO well. For fif
teen years hs has kept up this solemn
vigil, yet the heart that was torn in
twain by poignant grief still beats, and
the old ,man longs for the bride OF his
youth n, the cycles Of time roll on. -
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31

!, When in1estiga4ing the vatican rec
ords Pope Leo Kill. said to- Dom 0es-
quet the librarian: Publish every
thing of interest everything, whether
it tends to'the discredit or credit Of the
ecclesiastical authorities, for you may
be ssre that il the Rnspels haa been
written in our day the. traaohery Of
Judas and the denial Of ST. Peter would
have been suppressed TOR fear Of scan-
dAlixit1k weak consciences.r 80 lord
Halifax tead tbs Eng13ah Church 'tndoo
the Other day, ..s1. & .s.sasts.t sf.s<
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a asrs1s11-ia41ilaeaoae 4 aoae-1sg7raasntAaz
q the e0rsatU Upper Wood River, AawtoosA
and Snseky mining regions, -an&, acea4sa
as .E o Id As Very Heart Of the most prom
isin9 minin2 country Oh the face OF the
earth, and leaving nothing undops TO ,Pse-
sent its raadsrsa complete synopsis OF AZ
mining news and devslopnaents, ~ we'll -
nattefs-of local importance I'd and sSoat
Ketchum, is an Invaluable guide for cap
ital and informant to the settler of every
craft and position. Subscribe for 1t, read
it, and let yoar friends read It..
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-12-31
NEW USE FOR BICYCLES.

Discovered In London That Wheel wnl
Show Whether > Man IL intoxicated II
A new test of inebriation has been
discovered by an. Englishman, says the
New York World. The latest that has
been introduced into America was the
requiring Of the ''suspicioned" to pro-
nounce the words ''truly rural three
times rapidly, but the new English
method has decided advantage, and
it will quite easily be transplanted
and used here with effect. A pushing
British policeman on the Surrey side of
London found Mr.. William Andrew
Gill the other day in . state which
suggested the unconscious cerebration
of alcoholic symptoms and brought
him before local police official. Mr..
Gill defended himself masterfully.
"The policeman's charge is wrong" he,
said II was on = bicycle. and no man,
who is under the influence Of liquor
can ride a ttwo-wheeled machine"
An interesting question is thus
opened, and a question that admits Of q
good deal of argument. A competent.
London sa1thority. after due reflection,
mas OeCl6T00. st0at ~ Luc M4A u1AuAS
steadily and only makes use Of straight
liquids, there is no reason why the
alcohol should not readily balance him.
But If, ON the other hand, he mixes his
drinks with exasperating careleaeness,
combining, for example, Scotch ale and
Dublin stout with dry champagne and
seltzer, there is every reason to fear
that the heavy liquors. might fly of to
one side, leaving the center of gravity
upset and tumbling the, rider to the
ground.
q Treating the question seriously, how
ever, the bicycle las detector Of in
ebriety would~seem to be q valuable,
test. It is hardly likely, however, to
be accepted as a conclusive argument
in the police courts. In nearly every
case that can: be imagined the magis-
trate on the bench would prefer med
ical mans testimony That was what
the London police official in the case
above mentioned did, despite Mr.. Gilps
proposition that he would ride his
wheel Id the courtroom In support Of
oN LAeOty.i;l & 3sf.s s&SsS ! - ~ " III
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A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD

Planks Made of ork WIN Be Used In
- New Ships. 50 a
e Several months ago the board 5of IN.
spection ard survey Of the navy depart
ment was directed to make an investi-
CATION with view of obtaining some
practical BILE substitute for wood in fit
ting naval vessels. The desire for b
substitute was the fact. that . lighter
material was wanted if possible. one
that would not take SO much space In
the vessel, and more than anything
else material that would not splinter.
It was also desirable to have nom
combustible substance.
= Thes beard, says the Washington
Post, has made . report to the secre-
tary Of the navy and some of its recon-
mendations have been adopted by him,
and it is probable that some of the new
ships will be fitted with the new ma
terial rs a ubstitute for wood.
One of the best materials which has
been found by the board is q wood sub
stitute composed of waste cork, or any
.eork~ This Is bjected to four hur-
dred degrees of heat. and it is then
pressed into blocks Of any required
size. 1t can be sawed into thin strips
or handled very much as wood is
kandle1E Cork has AGgul1 that great
heat nelts and Clues its particles to-
0ether in a. arcompact mass. After being
pressed it sticks together as tightly as
If it had grown that way. The cork
boards may be made heavy or light, as
wanted. Some of the lighter kinds are
used in the walls Of refrigerators- 1t
Ia a non-conductor, and can scarcely be
made to burn. This material is used in
the place OF wood i'm German vessels.
Commander Bradford, who made the
1earcn and examination OF this patticu-
slar Sabsdtute. found that7the Germans
ueka using it under = tent takeH out
~ yoln smith, of New Fork tnd that
companies in the UnitS< States had OBJ
tsinnd rights for itessaapSfactsre 4ere.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-05-28

top, or to within one step of the top,
that last denied him through the
t%reachery of American politics. Moth
ing snblimer was ever seen in an Amer
lean court room than William II.
Seward. without reward, standing be-
tween the furioHs %populacc and the
lnathsnme imbeeile. substitution
What an %exalting principle, this
which leads one to suffer for another!
Nothing so kiRdles enthusiasm or
RWakens ~elCauence, or chimes poetic
eantn, or moves nations. The prin=
ciple is the dominant u in our re-
ligion-Christ the martyr. Christ the
celestial hero, Christ the defender,
Christ the substitute. No new prin-
ciple, for it was old as human nature
but now on Il %grander, wider, higher,
deeper and more understanding
scale! The shepherd boy as a cham
pion for Israel with a sling toppled
the giant of Philistine ~braggadocio
in the dust; but here is another Da-
vid, who, for all the armies of churches
militant and triumphant, hurls the
Goliah of perdition into defeat, the
crash Of his brazeq armor like an
explosion at He'll Gate. Abraham
HAD at Gods command agreed to sacri-
fiee his son Isaac, and the same God,
just in time. had provided q ram
of the thicket as II substitute; but
there is another Isaac bound to the
altar, and no hand arrests the sharp
edges of liberation and death, and the
universe shivers, and quakes, and re-
coils, and groans at the horror. All
good men have for centuries been try
ing To tell whom this substitute was
like, and every comparison, inspired
and uninsured evnngelistic, p~rOnhetic,
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CENTRAL SCHOOL BUILDING

today? They used to sing this song.
Today, if alive, their eyes are dim, their
steps faltering and their orange trees
are in full bloom.
Elder GOode toOk his text from the
chapter mentioned above. and his theme
was, Use what we have lie said
that il is customary for II seminaries,
academies and universities to have an
annual sermon at the close of the school
year. lie was glad it was so. 1t is a
recognition of the efforts of the students.
He mas especially glad that the public
schools have this annual sermon. lie
said that every individual ought to stand
for something and make an impression.
Public school is the basis of our national
education. Builders examine the foun-
dation before erecting Il house. TO see
whether it rests on a rock or on the eVer
slipping sand. No wise man will waste
money by building on the sand. We do
not go to the universities To begin an
education, but we begin at the public
school, hen through the seminary and
academy II university, This class of
tw~enty-nine graduates in the grammar
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To be seen. The pulpit was a solid
bank of beautiful flowers and ferns.
while a bunch of magnificent lilies stood
mp through the chimney of the pulpit
lamp.
The exercises opened by the choir
singing "All Hail the Power of Jesus
Name" 1t is a grand old song, and
was sung with an energy and feeling
that surprised some of the old church.
gOers. There was an organ, Il violin, a
BASS violin, a trombone and a cornet TO
accompany the voices. The school girls
composed the chOir,and the whole cOn-
gregatiOn joined in, just to see if they
could rear their W voices. a good
many of them could not.
Prof. l.. F. Myers, president of the
Business College, read the third chapter
of Acts, and offered prayer. Then came
that old song, Work for the Night is
Coming This is the poorest song i'll
the book when sung by a lazy, dragging
congregation. But give it vim, energy
and feeling. as though you intended to
work aud make others work, and it is a
tine piece. The singing was splendid,
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and plenty of the older people found
themselves out of breath at its cOnclu-
sion.
Miss Birdie Gunlack then sang ii solo,
and it is needless to say that it was
pretty and well sung. She always makes
good selections, and she can sing "Old
Hundred to the tune of Yankee
Doodle and make it sound pretty.
Next came the old wal song, 'Tenting
on the Old Camp Ground" We have
heard five or SIX hundred men sing that
song, but never heard it sound so pleas
antly DIS on this occasion. The choir
sang the solo part and the whole audience
and all the instruments joined in the
chorus and made Il IaPturOus melody.
1t recalled old forgotten events and
while revelIng in the sweet music we
were saddened by thinking of the past.
How many of the boys who tented on
the old Lexington battle field are alive