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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-10

When did birds begin to flock2
This has often been asked but never
can be told. A close study of this
habit, as of many other bird ways,
points to the conclusion that it is a
survival of Il much more fixed one.
There is now vast deal Of irregular
ity about it. Certainly the red
winged black birds. which form our
largest tioclls, are not all gathered in,
and single ones pairs and half a
dozen together remain all winter
scattered up and down the river val
ley 1t is true of every other flock
ing bird. The majority keep up the
old custom, but SO many stand aloof
in every instance that it might al
most he said the custom is dying out.
Let it he borne i'll mind that | am
writing Of a single locality, tho At
lantic seaboard Of the middle states,
and of this region | am disposed 70
make the statement that man has sc
modified the land that bird life il
rapidly losing its one time character
istic features. DIR. 9. Z. Abbott IN
Montreal Star
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-10

An admirable provision has been
made by the magistracy of Breslau,
which will tend in moro ways than one
to the Improvement Of the pupils in the
public schools A botanical school gar
den has been instituted for the regular
supply of plants to the schools of the
place and for enabling teachers to make
observations on the spot with their
pupils. New York Telegram.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-10
The Woman who Stays TOO Long

II the reckless waster of time were
the only sufferer for her thoughtless-
ness there would be a certain sense of
satisfaction il contemplating the retri-
button. But when she fingers ut her
friends threshold to make few closing
remarks on an already exhausted or a
fruitless theme while the busy house
wife shifts the odor Of burning cake, or
hears the clock striking the hour Of a
now impossible engagement, her action
becomes to a degree criminal. -Harper's
BaZar
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-10

A lady Of Bremen, Ne, has a parrot
and a cat The cats name is Shag.
The lady has taught the parrot to spell
cat, cat, dog, deg, and few such
words, and the other day Polly electri-
fed the household by spelling very
loudly and plainly, cat" and then
pronouncing it 'Shag" Perhaps Polly
can't think. Boston Journal
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-10

The boiler which is said to he tho
largest in the world is i'll the United
States. 1t was tested i'll July. 1890,
at one of the electric lighting stations
in New York. It is incased i'll Il YER
teal shell, which is three-fourths Of
an inch in thickness. 1t contains 600
tubes, each of which is three inches
in diameter The length of these
tubes. if stretched out in a straight
line, would extend 7.200 feet, or very
nearly mile anl a half. The whole
boiler contains 5000 square feet of
heating surface. and is of 1000 horse
power. - Exchange
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-10

He-I love you. Jeanette, and now
wish you to consider q proposal Of
She-That will Go, James. There is
only one honest course to pursue in a
business matter like this. Submit a
sealed proposal to me by the 18th, and
your bid shall receive the attention it
deserves. New York Ledger.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
GOAT BOXES.

The reports from the various
oting places in Edgefeld county
i've Tillman the following boxes
Blocker,
Norris,
Eulala,
Beuknights,
Red Bank,
Gray,
Moss,
Red Hill,
Rinehart, No.2,
Rhinehart, No.3,
Cooperville, No. 1,
Cooperyille, No. 2,
Centennial,
Wise,
Big Creek.
Golfers,
Old Wells,
Long Branch,
Mine Creek,
Meriwether,
Dry Creek,
Ridge Spring,
Hibler,
Talbert,
Bacon,
Mt. Enon,
Huiet,
Mt. Willing,
Washington.
SHEEP BOXES.
The Sheppard list is as follows
Hampton,
Shaw,
Johnston,
Plum Branch,
Meeting Street,
Cleveland,
Fruit Hill.
The Rehoboth club was divided,
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average climate. for all of the west
till one reaches the foot hills of the
Rocky Mountains; this majestic
chain of hills breaks the force Of
the winds. The only advantage
this country has over ours is that
the lands are fresher and little
better, but the other advantages
we enjoy compensate for this.
I want to say something to our
colored friends to try to induce
them to stay at home. I only
wish they could take a peep at the
poor, homeless, ,shivering, destitute
colored people that can be seen at
some of the stations on the rail-
roads in the territories, that alone
would make them remain forever
where they are. If a colored man
gets a claim in this country the
reckless, desperate class of whites
will make it so hot for him that
he will have to move on. Last
Sunday / went to see a colored
man from South Carolina, who is
a lawyer by profession and a man
of fair intelligence. I had seen
him in Columbia looking "fat and
slick" but you should see him now,
a pretty tough looking citizen. He
had been sick and [ took him
some medicine and gave him some
advice in regard to his health.
His next door neighbor, a white
man, did not even know how to
direct me to reach his house which
was not much over a mile from
him. This colored man is as |
have said, a lawyer of fair intelli-
gence, right in the midst of people
mostly from Indiana, Kansas, and
Northern States, that are contin-
ually crying and weeping their
philanthropic tears for his race and
still will not give this deserving
man an encouraging word. 1 send
him my South Carolina papers to
read and he has written me- one or
two pathetic letters about our sweet
sunny South where he first saw
the light. One can almost hear
him say: "My heart turns back to
Dixie. These two illustrations.
my colored fl; eads,are only isolat' d
examples amongst hundreds OF
such that can be heard of. So take
a friends advice and stay at home
where you were raised, and if you
only have to work for wages and
get three good meals day and
shingle over your head, thank
your God for this much and do not
be allured out to a country chat
you know nothing of, to suffer and
very probably die for the actual
necessariesof life. The white man of
the South is your best friend after
all. Educate your children and
work hard yourselves and all will
be well with you. What you hear
in the North in majority of cases
are but the spasmodic plants of
fanatics who would make you
believe that they feel for your race,
but when you look into it, it is
only vapor that comes from some
short haired woman or crazy SEN
timentalist. When you thought
you needed your leaders in 1875
they left you for foreign parts,
proving to you what sincerity there
was in their friendship.
r. W.P.B.
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honor in the past. He it was that
had plunged his traitorous dagger
into the bosom of his country when
she lay PROSTATE and helpless
nder the iron heel of brutal con-
ueror; and it illustrates the
eternal fitness of things when the
on of that hoary-headed assassin
of the liberies of his native land
shonld put himself at the head of
a movement to again degrade the
proud name and unsullied fame
of South Carolina.
There are many things that ought
to be forgot, there are many records
that should be erased from the
tablets of memory, but among the
things that should never be forgot
is the betrayal by Judas of his
master, the treason of Benedict
Arnold and the assassination of his
country's liberty by James L.
Orr.
Now let this son of this man
whose record I have tried to give
in the foregoing lines ask himself
if he could by any possibility
imagine the son of Judas Iscariot OF
the son of Benedict Arnold going
about and advising the people
what to do and they the came peo-
pie that their fathers had betrayed,
and ifhe is unable to imagine such
a thing, can it be exactly the thing
for him to do, when we cannot for
get that his father stands on the
same plane with the above men,
toned worthless? Very truly.
JOHN M. PAYNE. 5.
st. Matthews, S. c., March 25.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FoR CONGRESS-.

The friends of Col. w. J. TALBERT,
recognizing his ability and fitness, his
Christian virtue, and the deep interest
manifested by him in the welfare of
the whole people-his known oppose
tion to monopolies-his advocacy of
a better system for circulating the cur
rency of this great country-his In
terest in the general welfare of the
people and especially of the farmers,
hereby announce him as candidate
for election, under the Democratic
rule. to the House of Representatives
of the United States from the Second
Con gressional District of South Caro-
lima. MANY CITIZENS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
"reminiscences and Reflections.

To The Cotton Plant: Some
years ago (that is to say in the
years of good stealing) I was in
the city of Columbia at a time
when the faithful of the carpet
baggers, scalawags, mongrels and
negroes had gathered together
(like vultures around a dead
carcas) to congratulate each other
on the face that North Carolina
had just cast her vote for General
Grant. The cannon was BOOM
ing in the grounds around the
State House, and the house and
grounds were filled with a crew of
ill-visaged and sinister looking in
dividuals that to look at would
make women turn pale and honest
men turn sick. In this ill-favored
crowd were many so-called orators
that held forth one after the other
in commentary on the glorious
occasion. The first that came
forth on the platform (which was
the State House steps) was
Beverly Nash, a negro (that was
as black as the political cloud that
then hung over South Carolina)
he made such a harangue as
negro only can make. He was
followed by R. B. Elliott, another
negro black as Erebus; what he
said was at least decent. He was
followed by a portly, statesman
looking white man; his head was
covered with the winter that
eternity SHOWS upon all that live
long enough, his features were of
the kind that Milton ascribes to
the "archangel lost" He made a
speech--he congratulated the faith
full around on the fact that God in
His providence had made such a
meeting as that possible in South
Carolina. He said the Southern
people generally ought to COLI
gratulate themselves that they
were not hung to man as traitors
and rebels, and that they ought to
be exuberantly thankful that they
had fallen into the hands of such
magnanimous conquerors; that it
was now the manifest duty of the
Southern people to put forever be-
hind them the history and tradi-
tions of which they had heretofore
been so prond, and come forward
into the new light of the new
gospel of calpet-bag evangelization
as North Carolina had done, and a
great deal more of the same kind of
talk.
The talk from the negroes on
this occasion did not seem out of
harmony with the surroundings
but seemed as something that
might reasonably Lave been looked
for, but when the white man gave
to the sentiments that
be did, there was something
abhorrspt in them
words cannot express. Every
instinct of Anglo-Saxon manhood
seemed to be outraged and IN
suited.
Now, the man that made this
speech that I am telling you about
was James L. Orr, the man that
Carolina had delighted to
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14

A man of very clean record is
John G. Sheppard. he has been
Governor Of South Carolina but
there hangs around. him no free
free pass odor, no SO poll tax odor;;
no suppression Of tax extension; !;
no itching and fostering lust for
unlawful power; no pitiful stu
pidity as regards legal matters: ):
and, more than all, no wicked,
selfish engeLdering of strife be-
tween father and son, brother and
sister, neighbor and friend
Edgefeld Chronicle.
The editor of the Edgefeld
Chronicle was one Of the delegates
to the Thirteen's convention. That
convention professed to be for
apeace and harmony = before and
above all things else, but no sooner
does this delegate get home than
he commences to pile his dirty little
sadjectiYes upon Governor Tillman.
Now, if Tillman and Sheppard
were from another county, such a
trade would not be promotiye OF
peace and harmony, but when we
remember that both these candi-
dates are from his own county'that
trade becomes a wicked sngen-
dering Of strife between father and
son, brother and sister, neighbor
and friend.n Our contemporary
used no harsher or viler adjectiyes
than these about Chamberlain;
j the accusations reduced to their
last analysis are nothing. That
ssitching and fostering lust for IN
lawful power" was nothing more
than q request to the Legislature
toaauthorize the Chief Executive
to remove sheriffs where they viii
fully and knowingly permitted
prisoner to be lynched. That free
pass business was not an admin
istrative act. That suppression
Of the tax extension" was no sup
preston at all, and that sSpitiful
stupidity as regards legal matters"
has been sustained by the Supreme
Court of the United States of
America and made the law of the
land.
We would conjure our contem-
porary to call off his flies-keep
them at home to be used on some
other meat than son of Edgefeld,
We make this appeal in the in
terest of apeace and harmony" in
Edgefield county, not in the inter-
est Of Gov. Tillman; Calumny
has done her worst on him, Vitu-
peration has barked her loudest,
and the Father of Lies has called
off his dogs.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
ADyICEEoG GOV. SHEPPARD;

Ne believe; that when Gov. Shep.
pard sees, as he must now see thai
the State of South Corolina is
overwhelmingly for Tillman, that
he will be patriotic enough, and
wise enough, TO withdraw from
the race.
We know that Gov. sheppard's
friends will charge thatthis advice
is evidence of weakness, and that
the ADVERTISER apprehends that
Tillman may be beaten, but Gov.
Sheppard knows this is not 30; he
knows that nothing short of a
miracle can elect him Governor of
South Carolina in 1892; that our
advice is, IN this respect, disinter-
ested and that the ADVERTISER is
as good, aye a better friend of his
than some of the parasites who
are nearer to him in this race, for
We would spare him the mortifca-
tion of defeat as well as the sting
which will come to him in after
days of having precipitated upon
the people of Edgefeld county
useless, senseless, and bitter con-
flict.s
Edgefeld county will suffer
most should he continue in the
field. Edgefeld county, his birth
place and the home of his friends
and family anda constituency
which has delighted to honor him
in thaspast, will be torn into
factions, harassed and distracted
by the bitterness of the canvass,
and convulsed, perhaps, by inter
necine strife, brother against
brother, son against father, and all
for what purpose7 To make a
holiday for the enemies of Gov.
Tillman outside of Edgefeld
county. The most intelligent op-
ponents of Gov. Tillman know that
the race against him is utterly and
absolutely hopeless, no matter
whom they might have put up, and
their sole object in nominating
Gov. Sheppard was to weaken
Edgefeld county and her political
influence in the future. They are
wiling to sacrifice Sheppard to
the lanti-Tillman Moloch, in the
hope by and by, some time, some
where, they might defeat the will
of the people when they have no
Tillman to lead them.
Occasions come in every mans
life when..t dilemma is presented
TO him of deciding between two
ayils-between the devil and the
deep sea. Such an occasion now
presents itself to Gov. Sheppard:
Nay he decide in the interset OF
Apeace and harmony" among his
own home people. Wisdom die
tates it-prudence dictates it
courage dictates it. Let US have
peace.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
AN.EDGEFIELD YOUTH
Writes a Letter from the Indian
Territory-struggle for the
New Lands-No Room for
the COlOred Brother.
FORT RENO,

INDIAN TERRITORY, April z.
Look on one of the new maps Of
this country and you will see Fort
Reno, headquarters of the Fifth
Cavalry, U. S. Army. You will
also notice good deal of the
Indian Territory west of us. All
this portion Of the Territory will
| he opened for settlement between
this and the 10th or 18th of April.
1t would amuse you all, my friends
in Edgefeld, to see the variety
and number of people from every
quarter who are ready to fly in at
the word and secure homes, such
as they are. What we are now
looking forward to with much
interest is what's known as the
Crush" The town near here is at
present infested with all manner
of humanity, from the sleek and
polished gambler to the desperately
uncouth looking professional
boomer. One can see more or as
much of the west as they wish at
this time. There are few if any
negroes among the boomers; their
colony is about here and the race
line out here is more strictly
drawn than any where in the
South. When the order comes to
open up the country, an army
officer on horse back rides down
his portion of the line, fires his
pistol, then the crowd rushes in.
One can see women, children,
old and young, in and on every
conceivable vehicle and animal,
pushing, fighting, cuss-
ing, swearing for miles to get
homes in a country, in the greater
part of which one can hear "cow
peas gruntiug a mile trying tp
sprout."
There are two factors wanting
in this country to make home
comfortable, and these are wood
and water. From this post one
can look and see open country for
miles and miles, farther than the
human eye can reach, without
tree on it half as big as any of the
scrub oaks in the pine woods in
the lower part of Edgefeld near
Aiken. This section is very
much like the lower part of Texas
bordering on the Rio Grande, and
I think we ought to declare war
with old Mexico and make her
take this portion of Texas back.
Many of my friends, no doubt,
will conclude at once that I have
not very exalted opinion of
this portion of the west. What 1
have said though is not through
prejudice, but it is the truth.
Another feature that is against
it also, as a desirable country, is
the wind that blows almost con-
tinnally. I have been out for a
few miles ride and before I conld
get back a most terrific cold wind
directly from the north, known as a
:norther' would come up and almost
most freeze me before l could get in
doors. Ihave gone to bed at night
with the stars shining in the
heavens bright and clear and
arisen the next morning and found
the ground covered with snow or
torrents of rain falling. / always
thought our climate in South Caro-
lima changeable, bnt this climate
is far ahead of 1T. A man never
thinks of going any distance with
out his overcoat, "slicker," and
Buffalo robe, in order to be ready for
sudden changes. This is about the ]
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Governor Tillman.

Americans are born politicians,
and this characteristic is peculiarly
highly developed in our South
Carolinians. But ever since the
Revolution, us every one knows
and every truthful man must con-
fess, the management of fpublic af-
fairs in this State has been resigned
into the hands of certain men and
families, who looked upon this
entailment of power as their
inherent right by birth and mental
superiority owe the common mass
of our population. The long nd
ministration of those old-line
aristocrats was dashing and
brilliant.
But all of this time the common
people-we mean the honest,
toiling classes not within this
select pale-did not seem to ad-
vance with the new condition of
affairs brought about by. the
emancipation of slavery. If q
poor mans son felt y spark of
commendable ambition burning
in his breast, he was told to
smother it; that the place to. which
he aspired was the inherent
property of another; but to prove
to this young man that his merits
and ambition were not ignored,
80 long as they were confined
within plebeian channels, he was
permitted to endorse by his vote
the ticket selected by the old rulers
for him to support, and he was also
kindly permitted to pay tsxes,
and Keep on, plowing
But one morning. these old
leaders awoke and found a new
man at work in the political arena,
who was acting without their
cognizance or consent. This
reforme- was B. R. Tillman, and
and his burning words of elo-
quence, as the flaming torch of
Scotland, drew the inmates from
every home and rural hamlet, who
follow him with that unselfish
loyalty and devotion peculiar to
the agricultural population of the
South.
We all know the history of that
remarkable campaign-how the old
rulers were overthrown and new
men, fresh from the hands of the
people and in full accord and
sympathy with their views, were
elected to positions of honor and
trust-places that were before
sealed by the lock of caste against
their aspirations.
AS is ever the case in revolutions, |
the resentment of the defeated side |
was concentrated against the man |
who organized and led this revolt |
agains the old rulers. Even before
Tillman assumed the helm of gov
eminent, their phials of wrath and
hatred were poured upon his
head by the organs and leaders of
The vanquished side. Never was
man fonght more bitterly
and persistently than has been
Governor Tillman.
But with the clear head and |
superb nerve that carried him
safely and triumphantly through
;he campaign, and that won the
political liberty of the people, our
Governor has pursued the even
;enor of his way, and brought to
Dear on the affairs of State the
same sound judgment that has
made a success of whatever he
;ouched.
He is now crushing his enemies
With the power of merit, and the
charges made against him are one
oy one vanishing in the air, or
boomerangs to his
assailants. His last and crowning
victory was the triumph of our
State, the administration and
Attorney General McLaurin i'll the
Joosaw case.