(From Chester Reporter.)
There is considerable complaint
about the city as to certain small boys
who arm themselves with air rifles
and sling shots and destroy song
birds and insect destroying birds in
wholesale fashion. In one or two in
stances the young miscreants have
been known to Invade private prem
ises and kill valuable mocking birds
that were greatly valued by the own
ers of the property. There is abso
lutely no excuse for such conduct on
the part of our boys; there is eaough
lawful game, such as English spar
rows, to engage their attention with
out slaughtering these other birds,
which the law has seen fit to protect,
and which are the appreciated pets of
the community. We think that par
ents would do well to take up this
matter and deprive the youngsters of
their weapons unless they agree not
to molest further the song birds that
are so dear to the hearts of all our
people. The mocking bird, though not
of such widespread fame as certain
other song birds Is a songster whose
abilities are coming to be more widely
known. His serenades have furnish
ed subjects for poetic rhapsodies, and
he is altogether too valuable a mem
ber of society to fall victim to the
murderous instincts of the small boy.
WHY WATCH SIGNS AGREE.
(From the Gainesville Sun.)
Nearly all the watch signs, proba
bly 90 out of 100, have hands set at
8:18, but comparatively few people
know why this Is. It Is no accident.
W. K. Washbum, of New York, was
painting a sign for a jeweler of that
city when the news of the assassina
tion of Abraham Lincoln, April 14.
