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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
An Interesting old Church.

The 15Oth anniversary of st. Johns
church is soon to be celebrated. This
shows what an old city Richmond is
and doubtless other temporary houses of
worship preceded st. Johns. This was
our first church, and from it all that
large plateau known as Church hill took
its name. The labors of the late Thomas
II. Wynne and of Mr.. r. A. Brock have
rescued from Oblivion and decay the
church's records, and having been edit
ed, annotated and published, they are
part and parcel of the glorious history of
this commonwealth
1t was in this church, before the Vir-
ginia convention. that Patrick Henry
uttered the trumpet note of the Revolu-
tion in the stirring sentence, "Give me
liberty or give me death" and it has
been the scene of many other interesting
occurrences. Though of wood. it stands
in good condition, having escaped multi
tudinous fires, including those built in
the city by Benedict Arnold's men, the
great confagration of 1886, and that of
Evacuation Richmond Dispatch
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05

but before we could move foot our car
was surrounded by wolves, and monster
got his head and shoulders into the door
way and hung there for a few seconds
despite the kicks from our heavy boots.
We opened the slides and looked out, but
all was over then. The carcasses of the
horses had been picked to the bone, the
harnesses eaten, and the robes from the
sledge were being torn apart as the wolves
raced around. We saw pieces of bloody
clothing scattered about, and we knew
that the travellers had met horrible
fate. We learned afterward that there
were four men in the sledge.
The pack of wolves, which seemed to
be much larger than any which had yet
gathered, hung about until we knocked
over at least fifty Of them, and then drew
off to return at midnight. We kept our
position for nine days before the men
would come with the horses, and, al
though we preserved the scalps of only
three wolves, we estimated the number Of
killed at over 800. We intended to put
in a week at another place, but with the
horses came that same government Off
cial, who gravely informed us that he
had been instructed by his superior officer
TO inform us that our wolf hunt must
end. We were rendering the highways
dangerous TO travellers by attracting the
wolves,-New York Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
He Paid the Loan.

1t has been remarked that Hebrews do
not beg. Furthermore that Hebrews
look after their own poor, distinguish
ing trait, but we do not remember an
instance where a man or boy who was
housed in police station house out Of
compassion, and who was given a trihe
of money to get meal, ever was at the.
pains to return and refund the money
Our avenues of information ON this hand
are not few. A young Hebrew who,
walked from St. Louis to Pittsburg was
given a quarter of dollar to satisfy his
hunger. His shoes We're in ribbons.
When he earned two dollars he bought
pair of shoes, and left a quarter at the.
station house to be returned to the man
who gave it to him. If Isaac Moser.
lives he will be a successful business.
man, and in any event he reflects credit
upon his .-Pittsburg Bulletin. r
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05

Learn TO coudense" is a bit Of coma
monplace advice often given to students
Of literary composition, hut the lesson Of
the great field marshafs life shows the
value of the admonition in every form Of
work, from the management of an army
to the writing Of a letter There was no
waste in Moltke, not even a waste of
words. and men said of him that ne
could be silent in many languages. The
Keason was that he had learned to COM
bine his faculties and direct them all in
harmony to the purpose of the hour.
He needed all his energies for action.
and because even talk must draw for
sustenance upon the nervous forces, he
said little. He had brought his own
faculties under drill and discipline, and
in like manner he could condense the
energies of a kingdom into a cannon
ball, compact and irresistible. He drew
eight corps of the Prussian army from
divergent points and converged them
upon Sadowa in the critical moment of
battle, as a lens concentrates the gun
beams. The center of the Austrian army
melted under the heat, and when the sun
went down upon the field Austria had
no longer either voice or vote in the poll
tics of Germany.
By his infallible mathematics he
worked out the doom of the French en-
pire long before the challenge of Napo-
leon came, so that when the proclama-
ton of war was made he had nothing to
do but touch the little button that set in
motion all the complex machinery of the
German army, and move it like the
sweep of a sword across France to the
field of destiny by the ramparts Of Sc
damn. NJ. Trumbull in Open Court.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05

All the tramps who have wandered to
the immediate vicinity of Mount Holly,
N. j., in the past week have, to use the
parlance of their own tribe, been right
in de royalest kind O. luck" They have
had one continual round of bacchanalian
revels, and all growing out of the muir
der trial from which John Price escaped.
One of the chief witnesses for the state
during the trial was John McClain, a
true specimen of the tramp tribe. He
was an eyewitness of the killing of
Bonner" by Price, and Immediately
after the tragedy was locked up TO as
sure his appearance at the trial to testify.
After the trial closed McClain was re-
leased and paid off, his per diem allow
ance amounting to seventy dollars.
The result of the introduction of this
fortune into the realms of the tramp
kingdom just at the close of hard
winter was demoralizing. Philadelphia
Record
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
The LINKS o. LOVE.

o, the tide rims out and the tide comes In.
And the hurnies rim to the sea.
AS they wind their way by the bank and brae.
o. they sing TO you and me
How sweet Is the bloom o. the heather bell,
And the gowan on the lea,
The blush o. the fiow'rs in the sylvan bowers,
o, they smile to you and me.
The sun shines bright in the lift aboon,
And the birds sing sangs o glee,
On the grassy howe and the broomy knowe,
o, they sing to you and me.
They sing their sangs, their bonny, bonny sangs,
Till daylight shuts her e'e;
Then doom in the dell by the crystal well
My true love comes to me-
o, come to me, my own true love,
My heart is link'd TO thine;
The stars o. night that shine sac bright
Tell me that you are mine
o, the tide rims out and the tide comes in,
E And the burnies rim TO the sea-
AS they wind their way by the bank and brae,
o, they sing to you and me-
"A. Wanless in Detroit Free Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
A snal.e aud woodehuek Killsr.

Joseph A. Leete, of Guilford. Conn.
owns most intelligent dog which is a
cross between shepherd and Newfound-
land. Besides being able to perform
any number of errands for his master.
he has especial antipathy toward snakes
and wOodchucks and has killed any
number of them. lie hunts them in
the most approved fashion, and when
once after either of these animals
seldom fails to accomplish their de-
struction.
Majors snake record has been kept
for one year only-1S90 He killed
during that year twenty snakes of
various kinds, His woodchuck record
is: 1887, 10; 1888. 30: 1889. 20; 1890
10; total, IS. lie first showed his pro-
pensity for killing snakes when he was
a year old He was in his masters
carriage, driving along the road. when
he suddenly jumped out and ran into
the bushes. and few minutes later
came back with large black snake
which he killed. 1t measured six feet
four inches in length. New Haven
REGISTER
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
Horses in spectacies.

One of the curious effects of the I'm
wonted cold weather in Europe during
the past winter was observed in Austrian
Moravia, where the inhabitants are said
TO be very fond of their horses and
humanely inclined toward them.
For many weeks the ground in Mora
via was covered with thick coating of
snow. AS this was unusual, and the
people found that their own eyes were
unpleasantly affected by the intense
whiteness of the snow, it occurred to
them that their horses must be affected
In the same way, and needed protection
for their eyes.
The farmers, therefore, procured guam
titles of goggles and spectacles with
black, blue or green glass, which they
tied over their horses eyes whenever
they went out
A market day in Moravia during the
prevalence of the great snow is said to
have been funny sight. Scores of
horses dragging wagons through the
snow in the streets, or else improvised
sleds and sledges were seen in the streets,
and nearly every horse had on pair of
blue or green spectacles.
The white horses were especially conf
cal, and if they possessed a sense of the
ridiculous, as some horses are thought to
do, perhaps they wished that they were
black or chestnut. for on colored horses
the glasses were not SO conspicuous. -
Youths Companion.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
HORSES SUFFER IN SILENCE.


They Might Touch Our Hearts.
1t is pity that horses suffer mutely.
If they could express their torments by
yells as piercing and loud in proportion
to their size as. for example, a wound
ed hare utters, we should soon be en-.
ightened as to the amount of suffering
in our streets. Some of the hanson
cabs which ply there are admirably
turned out and driven, but there are
principle of minimum of corn and
maximum of whipcord. In one such
was travelling one day. The driver
piled his whip vigorously about the
tenderest parts of his horses TANKS,
and awkwardly allowed the lash to
strike me across the face.
The pain was acute, and / did not
suffer in silence; yet for one indirect
cut that received in that journey the
unfortunate quadruped received scores.
He received punishment at the rate of
fifty lashes mile, which, if his average
daily task is moderately computed at
twelve miles, would give the hideous
total of 900 lashes day.
This incident took place in broad
daylight, but cabmen's night horses are
indeed a pitiful class. Nearly all of
those that are assembled nightly in
Palace yard when the house of com
mons is sitting are suffering from navic-
ular disease, caused by fast work on
hard pavements. You may see the
unhappy animals standing with first
one forefoot, then the other, pointed
forward to relieve the pain, which
must resemble toothache on a large
scale, for it is caused by the decay of a
bone nearly two inches long in the
center Of the foot. Would society Ell
dure horses being worked in this con
dition if they could signify their pangs
as plainly as fine lady with neuralgia
The barbarity of tight bearing reins
was forcibly exposed and condemned
by writer i'm June, 1875, and certainly
the excessive use of them thereafter be-
came less common, but it is still too
often to be seen. 1t would not be seen
at all if people in general understood
the peculiar form of torture produced
by it. A pair of fat, we'll groomed, six
teen hands carriage horses standing in
the streets are not subjects to attract
commiseration from passersby. The
restless tossing of their head may be
taken for the sign of pride and spirit !;
but what heart rending groans could
alone express what these fine animals
have to endured
Along the top of horses neck runs
a massive sinew, strong enough to sup
port the leverage of the head; it is at
tached to several vertebra nearest the
shoulder; then it runs free over the
crest and becomes attached again to
the vertebr;e nearest the poll When
the head is pulled into the position
decreed by mans vanity, the vertebre
under the crest press hard into the
sinew, and must cause intense suffer
ing, sometimes setting up the inflam-
matian known as poll evil.-Black-
woods Magazine.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
A Bachelor Conxartad.

One of the standard toasts at most of
our important and many of the informal
dinners here has been, 1.-THE ladies'
God bless them" and the response is
usually made by Mr.. John r. Van-
Wormer, who is witty, rapid, ener-
getic speaker and whose comments as u
confirmed bachelor upon the charms of
the other sex are always a delight to
hear. Mr.. Van Wormer is probably
known to as many politicians and promi-
nent men as any person of his years in
New York. He was for a long time in
intimate relations with Senator Conk-
ling, serving as the clerk of his commit
tee and as his private secretary. He was
also chief clerk of the postofice depart
ment when General James was post
master general, and is now the manager
of the largest safe deposit company in
the city
But Mr.. Van Wormer will no longer
be called upon as a confirmed bachelor
to expatiate upon fair women at public
dinners. He has capitulated; he has
found the fairest of women; he has low
cred his independent flag and salutes
one of the most charming of her sex. and
he is receiving congratulations by the
score He is soon to marry Mrs. D
Demorest Lloyd, whose husband was
very successful playwright and Journal
list, and whose sudden death was great
bereavement to a large circle of friends.
E. j. Edwards in Philadelphia Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
THE KOOTENAI HERALD
Issued Every Saturday By
S. D. TAYLOR, Proprietor.
A RAINY Dax I'm snrinr.

From leaden clouds there streams incessant
rain,
That blights the budding branches overhead
Kgrhe sodden violets-all their fragrance fled
Weep, weary for the sunshine's smile again.
No gay bird wooers trill a tender strain:
The woods are still: the windhower's petals
shed;
And fresh sown fields around look bare and
dead.
TIN warmth win come TO wake the sleeping
grain.
But kindly sunshine lights this little room,
For love makes summer in my heart today;
What though the outer world be chilled and
gray7
Within these walls there breaks a starry bloom
OF snowy blossoms, shining through the gloom
My darling's message, sent from far away.
Chambers Journal
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
A Rooster's Fast.

Some two weeks ago Mrs, Martha For
sythe missed favorite Cochin rooster,
and, thinking that some one had stolen
it, she purchased another One evening
about two weeks later Mrs. Forsythe
went out to lock the coop, and seeing a
box near the coop determined first to
put it in the dry. that it might be used
when occasion required. On picking up
the box she was surprised to find the lost
rooster, for Sir Chanticleer stepped out
as gayly as if he had lived on corn by
the bushel. The chicken had not had
one grain Of food for fourteen days. He
had been picking his way through an
old celery trench, and stepping ON the
box it had overtilted and imprisoned
him like Genevra in the chest.-MOnon-
gahela Republican.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
Lord Melbourne's Way of Saving II.


The death of Lord Mimic makes a va
cancy in the Order of the Thistle for
which number of names are men
toned, that of Lord Strathmore being
prominent. The order consists of twenty
members, including the four principal
royal dukes. and the decoration is eagerly
sought after by Scottish peers. 1t con
sists of a star, a green ribbon and the
motto, Memo me impuno lacessit." A
good story has been revived of the reply
made by Lord Melbourne to a political
friend who had been importuning him
to give the decoration TO a peer who was
more noted for his urbanity than for his
great talents. "Give the thistle to -w
said Lord Melbourne, with one of his
usual expletives; why. he'd eat itr-
ScottishAmerican.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05

A Bonneville widower wants to get
married. His fiancee, a maiden lady of
Globe Village, is ready for the ceremony.
but the b. W. is hating, necessarily on
account of a little financial difficulty.
he has been contracting numerous bills
with butchers and bakers and candle
stick makers" at the North End, and
hasn't made much effort to pay them.
be sent to Canada for 800 to get married
with, and ordered it sent by express. A
grocer, who is one of his creditors, heard
OF the plan, and when the money ar
rived at the express Office it was attached.
and the maiden still waits for the wild
over Fall River (Mass.) News
May red nose De designated as bright
example?
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05

May red nose De designated as a bright
example?
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05

NJ Lambert, who married into the
Rothschild family few years ago, is to
become the head of the Paris house of
that famous firm upon the death of
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. NJ.
Lambert is now known as Albert de
Rothschild.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22
Colored omceholders.

The colored brethren Of Ohio. like
other Ohio men. generally get their
share Of what il going. not excepting
political Offices Ohio was one of tie
first states to elect colored men to her
legislature. This fall the colored voters
required something Of q pledge from the
Republican party that in the distribu-
ton Of them ere Offices" they would
not DO forgotten.
Meantime 1t may not be ont of place
70 mention that at present. in the Dis
trict Of Columbia alone, 1896 colored
persons. mostly men. hold office under
the United States government. These
colored officeholders draw annually from
the United States treasury in salaries
81 .370. 1858. which is not 90 bad
The negroes are mostly employed AZ
messengers, lanitors porters, etc. Com
paratively few have arrived at the dig
nifty Of . clerIship. not 20 much perhaps
because Of want Of capacity rs because
Of the greater fiuence Of the white man
and brother in gaining the ear Of the
appointing power. John NJ. Langston.
the colored ex-congressman Of Virginia,
has compiled . table Of the colored Office
holders 1T Washington. with their sal
aries. as follows:
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22


The great demand in the industrial
world is now for electrical machinists
and engineers. those who understand
both the scientific and practical electric
ity. Parents can give their sons no bet
ter fortune for. the future than thor
ough electrical education. Here is where
the value of the technical training school
comes in. Boys from these schools easily
get $50 to 800 a month after working
in shops for short time The style of
electrical work at first done in the coun-
try was very defective, and this is what
caused deaths SO frequently in handling
wires and machinery This faulty work
manship is now. however. being rapidly
changed and a new generation of cleo
ltricians has appeared on the scene-the
young men trained scientifically.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22

Can we make it rain? Yes, answers
General Robert q. Dyrenforth, in The
North American Review. AS proof he
instances cases in which heavy rains
have followed great battles and con
tinued explosions of powder TOO often
to leave any doubt of the matter. Can
we make it rain? No, answers Professor
Simon Newcomb in the same review,
at least not by firing off explosives into
the atmosphere His reason is that such
thing would be contrary to science.
"A thousand detonations can produce
no more effect on the air or on the
watery vapor in it than thousand re-
bounds of a small boys rubber ball
would produce on stone wall Pro-
fessor Newcomb more than half init
mates that if the United States govern
ment had consulted the quiet, rather
diffident" men of science before making
the appropriation for producing rain by
explosions it would have been consider
ably better off than it is now
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22
The Boomers Territory.

Twenty-nine months ago the territory
of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Indian
territory, was settled in an hour. This
September the presidents proclamation
opened to settlers other than Indians
10000 acres more on the eastern border
of Oklahoma. They, too, were settled in
an hour The new lands lie between the
Cimmarron river on the north and the
Canadian on the south. They are divi-
ded by the new settlers into two coun-
ties. one occupying the northern the
other the southern portion Of the newly
coded lands The county seats were se-
lected by the United States government
beforehand, so that in these cases there
can be no county seat war
The northern county seat is called
Chandler, the southern Tecumseh Each
site Is forty miles from Guthrie. o. I.
1t may DO mentioned that lawyers
shingles were waiting to be hoisted upon
tents before the government survey of
these sites was completed. It is there
fore no use for any young lawyers from
the states to go out there and grow up
with the country. The unique feature
of this new last boom was the numb Of
negroes who entered with the rest. de-
termined to fight for, homesteads.
When the government lands OF this
country were first opened to settlement.
the United States was glad to give them
away to anybody who would take and
till them Even then some Of the most
fertile remained fifty years before they
were occupied That day has gone for
ever II we had . dozen NOSE terri
tories all would be settled with boom,
just as Oklahoma has been In this
generation we have "a hungry people.
ever drawing higher" to whatever they
can get.
Well luck to. the 10000 September
boomers who went in and made towns
and farms in night Of the lands sold
to the government BY the Iowas. Sacs.
Foxes and Pottawatamfesl Luck to the.
postmaster Of Tecumseh. who got his APP
pointment before the town was laid outl
AL Of you. men. women and chifdre1,
black and white may none of your
booms prove a promerangl
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22

The mason be~lders and bricklayers,
unions OF Boston have taken decided
advance step They are to establish
eveninggtrade schools These are to be
for the benefit Of indentured apprentices.
who viii receive instruction in the the
DRY and science of the trade they have
chosen. II Ben Franklin could come to
life nov and say what should be done
with the fund he left for the benefit of
apprentices he would apply it in this
way. 1t is an ideal method Of helping
young mechanics
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22

There i j naturalization min in
Hayre. France. which supplies fraudu-
lent naturalization papers ready stamped
and sealed to emigrants who will buy
them. although the fellows never saw
America and cannot speak word OF
English It would be interesting to
know whether it is native born Ameri-
can who Is At the head OF this nefarious
business The man who would thus
foist the scum Of Europe upon his ma
tive land is worse than murderer
and meaner than horse thief
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22

A new source Of prosperity has come
to the south. and that Is the winter tour
list Each year the number Of rich peo-
pie who can afford 70 flee from rigor-
ous climate becomes greater. and these
find nowhere at once 20 much comfort
and beauty as in the southern part Of
their own land Florida has increased
more rapidly in wealth than any other
southern state. and the reason q simply
oranges and tourists
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22

If the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany can get satisfactory mail con
tract under the new postal law, it will
put some new ships on the line, issuing
bonds to the amount Of $3,0oo,O00 for
their construction. In the sharp com
petition which has arisen for the cream
of the Pacific trade the United States
ought TO be able to lead, but at present
the outlook is little uncertain.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-22

The latest kink to defraud the coffee
drinkers Of the land is to exhaust the
berries which are afterwards strained
and the residue used in making coffee
extract. Under microscopical ex-
animation no evidence of the oily glob-
ules in coffee berries could be found.
Most of these spurious inventions come
from Germany and the Americans are
by no means slow to learn.