VOLUME 3. l E YNOLDS VI LLE, TENN'A., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1891. NUMBER 19. 4 Childrens' Reefer Suits FOR B-2 OO BOYS' Long Pants Suits FOR $3.50 Mens' All-wool El SUITS for $6.50. Mens' Good Business SUITS for $8.00. Mens' Good Black Suits for Dress $10.00. Remember we have one of thei Finest CUTTERS . in our Merchant Tailor Depart merit. Suits for 820.00 and up. Make a Our Fall Base - Hit and come to Bell's are coming daily. OO ME INI . Where? TO THE "Bee Hive" store. WHERE L. J. McEntire, & Co., The Groceryman, deals in all kindB of Groceries. Canned Goods, Green Goods Tobacco and 'Cigars, Flour and Feod, Baled Hay and Straw. Fresh goods always on hand. Country produce taken in exchange for goods. A Bhare of your patronage is respectfully solicited. - Very truly yours, Lawrence J. McEntire & Co., The C rocc ry men. Overcoats Children's SUITS FOR S2 OO. or Bue ack Men's, Boy's and .Children's SUITS AY - SIZE - OR - STYLE ! Single Breasted Sack Suits, sizes from 33 to 48, Blue or Black. . Cutaway Frock Suits, Blue or Black. Regent Cutaway Suits, full long style. We buy all our suits from the finest manufactory of men's suits and if you find any of our clothing to rip we ask you to bring the suit back and we give you a new' suit. Match Us If You Can. BBLU TIlP ONI V Clotmer. flatter 1 III) UPlb and Furnisher. Undcr- Stock of Price Uiulcr Wcar, 75c. per suit. in J. S. MORROW, DEALER IN Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, and Shoes, Fresh Groceries Flour and . Feed. GOODS DELIVERED FREE. OPERA - HOUSE BLOCK 9 ..Beynoldsville. Pa. Boys' Boys' Knee Pants Suits with extra pair panta $3.00. Knee Tants . SUITS FOR $I.OO Mens1 Prince Albert . SUITS FOB $15.00. G. A. R. Suit, the Best in the world, for io.oo. Two sets buttons Gents, Call and ex amine our All-wool Pants FOR J.OO. Hats! Hats! For the Children, Hats! Hats! For the Men and Hats! Hats! Hats! For Everyone. Wed a Neck tie to your Col lar. We will tie the knot for STYLES . and PRICES to suit the times. We have them for you. 25c. New Goods ! A. KATZEN, Proprietor People's Bargain Store, has just returned from the east with an immense line of Goods. Call at his store for bargains. IT RAINS. It rain. And the leaves full thick end flint. As the boiiRlis are bent In the Autumn blaati l'he sparrows hnrcr 'nenth .bettering eaves, And the voice of the wind 1. like on who grieves. It rains. It rntns. And the tram rocs not nfli'ld to mil the earth for another yields Tho farmer sits by the kitchen flro And smokes bis pipe to soothe his Ire. It rain. It rains. And the fire burns cheerful and bright, And tho heart of the mother Is harpy tonight. Anil sho smiles as the InmpllKlit shimmers o'er Her babes at play with their toys on the floor. It rains. It rnlns. And with voice with emotion choked. A mother, in gnrments tattered and soaked. Drags her weary feet with trembling tread to beg for her darlings a morsel of bread. It rains. It rains. And tho sailor's wlfo is sad, As the wind shrieks by liko a demon mad, And a prayer nncemlH to the greut white throne, "Oil, Father, leave tno not alone!" It rnlns. It rnins. And tho tall trees sadly wave Their drinched bouidis o'er a new made grave. And the grief stricken henrts burst forth again, As they think of the loved one out In the rain. It rains. -A. Willis Ughtbourn. DO i0T KILL THEM. BIRDS THAT ARE REAL AIDS TO FARM ERS AND GARDENERS. The Harm They Do la Small Compared to the Good They Accomplish Even the Much Abased Hawk end Owl Render Valuable Service and Do Slight Harm. "No decent person who knows the value of birds that sing, whether their notes be harsh or sweet voiced, will ever kill a singing bird," said a natu ral 1st "Thousands of birds that are of inestimable value to the farmer as well as to the town dweller who grows fruit or keeps a garden are slaughtered ruth lessly every year. "The farmer, the gordonor and the fruit grower should know more about the birds that nest and sing and flit about their premises, for then they would defend and protect them and in time have them back in something like their old time numbers and variety. How often nowadays does oue see the saucy, rich voiced, nervous littlo wreui A few years ago it was seen and heard everywhere, but it must be a favored lo cality that it visits now. Yet the little wren was a most ravenous devourer of the pestiferous and destructive cutworm of the gardens and did great work to ward lessening tho daumgo done by the pest of the soil Tho bright littlo blue bird clears the air and the ground of thousands of cod 1 in moths and canker worms during a season. "The crow blackbird has no peace at the hands of man, yet a flock of them in a short time will clear a newly plant ed field of all its hosts of destructive lorvn that tho plow turns up. Tho greut American crow itself would do tho same thing if it wasn't for thoiuovitnblouinu with a gun that just wants tho crow to try it once. Neither tho bhickbird nor tho crow cares as much for corn as it docs for grubs, and if farmers would scatter corn nbout their fluids instead of putting up sonroerows-nnd tho liko those misunderstood birds would uewr pull up a hill of his planting. Tho chances are anyhow that if tho agriculturist will take tho troublo to examine a hill of . young corn that he chargos (ho crow with pulling up ho will And that it was cut off by a grub of some kind, and that the crow was simply mining for the grub, not tho corn. "Tho robin, it cannot be denied, is a ore trial to the man win has fruit trees and bushes, but if fee could only bring himself to atop and think how many thousands of ravaging insects Hint are the espociul cnemios of his troe .and bushes that tho robin destroys, both be fore the fruit has ripen od and for weuka after it is gone, he would not bogradge the bird the few quarts of cherries or berries that it lovios on as partial satis faction of tho dobt the grower orwet him. The same may be said of the other thrushes for tho robin is a thrush the cherry birds, orioles, bluo jays and many other birds of that class. Those birds never lovy tribute on grain or seeds, but thoy do the farmer untold benefit "The climbing birds axe the different varieties of woodpeckers, and they are constantly befriending growing things. Whenever a woodpecker is heard tap ping on a troe, it is the deathknell of tie larva) of some destructive insect Yet it is not an uncommon thing to see the very person for whom this bird is industriously at work following with bis gun the bird's red head from tree to tree until the opportunity comes for him to send a load of shot into the un suspecting feathered philanthropist. It is a pet belief among formers that the woodpecker kills the troe it works on, and that he is working for that very Jinrposa It is a foot that the oommou ittle sapsuokor does injure trees, but the woodpecker never does. Quite the contrary. The white breasted nuthatch and the little gray creeper so general ly confounded with the sapsucker live exclusively on tree insects, yet. tho nut hatch is in bad repute among in any fanners because they believe' it kills their bees. 1 "The nicadow lark is another bird that has little peaoe on any one's laud, for there is a mistaken notion abroad that ho is a gnino bird. Ho is gamo in tho quality of being nlcrt and hard to get a shot at, but is no moro entitled to bo so classified than tho flicker or high holder is. Tho meadow lark is a con stant fecdiT on nndcrgroniul lnrvn nnd whatever ho is disturbed ho is simply driven away from active work in rid ding tho ground of tho worst kinds of farm pests. Tho bluo jay may bo said to bo indirectly nil enemy to tho farmer ns wull as a friend, for it hns tho bad habit of destroying tho eggs of other birds that do only good. "If there is ono bird that the farmer loves to do nil in his power to extermi nate more than ho does tho crow, unless it may bo tho hawk, that bird is tho owl. Ho can't be brought to tho lclief that if it were not for the owls and the hawks his fields would bo overrun and burrowed by field mico to such an ex tent that his crops would bo in per petual danger; that owls, while out mousing, feed on myriads of night fly ing moths nnd Wtles, thus preventing tho laying of millions upon millions of tho eggs of theso insects, ninl that they not only keep tho field niieo down, but lessen tho number of domestic mice nnd rats nbout bams and outhouses to an extent that a small nrmy of tho iiwt vigilant cats could not surpass. As to tho hawk, tho farmer remembers that on sonio occasion one carried off n chick en for him, and therefore tho fact that the big soaring bird daily kills many field mice, grasshoppers, snakes, lizards, bt-otles and other vermin cannot be set np in its defense. The proportion of hawks or owls that kill chickens is small compared with those who keep down tho deadly enemies of the farm er's crops. " Exchange. BESSEMER ON BESSEMER STEEL Marvelous Quickness In Converting; Cast Iron Into the Hardened Metal. In The Engineering Review Sir Hen ry Bessemer has nil article on tho steel industry which boars his name. Ho re minds ns that a third of a century ago Sheffield steel made from the costly bar iron of Sweden realized from 50 to 00 a ton. Now, by the Dessenier proc ess, steel of excellent quality oau bo made direct from crude pig iron at a cost ridiculously small compared with former prices and in quantities which the old stool workers never dreamed of dealing with at one operation. In lieu of the slow and expensive process of converting wrought iron bars into crudo or blister steel by 10 days' exposure at a very high tempernture to the action of carbon, cast iron worth only 3 a ton is, Sir Henry says, con verted into Bessemer cast steel in 80 minutes wholly without skilled manip ulation or tho employment of fuel, and whilo still maintaining its initial heat it can at ouco bo rolled into railway bars or other required forms. Tho nrticlo gives a vivid picture of all that has been brought about by this revolution in a manufacture in which up to our own titno there had been no change sineo blades of matchless temper were wrought in the forges of Damas cus ami Toledo. Stool is now adapted to a thousand purposes of which our ancestors had no conception. By way of giving somo idea of the enormous production of Bessemer stool now, Sir Henry asks us to imagino a wall 5 feet in thickness and 30 foot high, liko a gigantio armor plato form ed into a circle and mado to surround Loudon. Tho inclosuro so mado would extend to Watford on the north side, to Croydou on the south, to Woolwich on the east and to Richmond on tho west. It would contain an area of 71)5 square miles, and this grent wall of London, Woighing 10,600,000 tons, would juHt be equal to one year's production of Bossomor steel. Oratory and Wit. "A onrious thing about political ora tory and wit is the sido light I got upon one aspect of it years ago in Buffalo," Thus Mr. Cleveland is quoted by a lis tener. "One morning a quaint looking old chap oame into my oflioo and said that he had read in the newspapers that I was to speak at a mass meeting the following night and wanted to know if it wore true. When I told him that It was so, ho revealed to me a new method of gaining oratorioal distinc tion. He volunteered to interrupt my speech at stated intervals with a remark that should be agreed upon between us. To this interjeotion I was to retort wit tily, and thus, as the old fellow pointed out, I would aoquire reputation as a Witty speaker. "My first impression was that he was amusing himself at my expense, but he repeated to me several things I could reply to wittily and wanted me to pay him roundly for helping me to a reputa tion. But I told him I was indifferent to that kind of fame, and he went away disappointed. Not very long after that I was seated on a stage listening to a speaker, when who should arise in the audiouoe but my quaint visitor and bawl ont one of the very things he wanted me to pay him for interrupting me with. The orator answered him with the same retort that I was offered the privilege of making, and the audienoe exploded into laughter, and I heartily joined in, but my amusement hod not the same foundation, I fancy, as that of the rest of the laughers. And during the rest of the evening the old fellow made an occasional interruption from different parts of the house, and the re torts were of the same manufactured sort I am a trifle skeptical now on the subject of witty retorts. "Cincinnati Commercial. THE ORIGIN OF MAN. Ancient lletlef That Trees Were the An- erstore of the Human Itace. Tho descent of the human raco from somo particnlnr species of treo is ono of tho oldest myths that can bo found run ning through the folk stories of overy nation. In Virgil we find refereneo to tho racoof "men who took their birth from trunks of troes," and among Homo of tho early commentators on that statement we even find speculations ns to tho particular species of treo from which tho rnco sprung. Tho very earliest Egyptians as well as those who lived nnder later dynasties had a legend of tho "tree of life," and ninny of tho leading investigators, both ancient and modern, hnve expressed tho opinion that from Egypt cutno tho Biblical story of tho "treo of knowledge of good nnd evil" which graced tho original garden mado by tho AH Wise for our first par ents. Professor Thisfclton (sco his "Full: Lore of Plants") believes thnt tho Scrip tural narrative cited is a survival of tho belief in the "tree descent of man," and that the abiding faith of mankind in tho tradition ngain crops out in Rev elation, where tho "tree of life" plays ns important a part ns that of the famous tree mentioned in tho first book of tho Bible The natives of Madagascar have a tradition which is believed and perpetuated among thorn to tho effect that tho first man was born alive from a tree, nnd thnt ho immediately set about making himself "a helpmeet," fashioning her from a knotted limb by the nid of a ninssel shell carving knife. Marsdon's "History of Sumatra" tells us that the people of the Philippine is lands nlso have the tree descent legend nmoiig them, and King, in his "Lifo Among tho Bushmen of Australia," says that tho people there habitually live among tho trees, because "they nre taught from infancy thnt their early ancestors were trees endowed with tho faculty of speaking and moving about from place to place. " St. Louis Re public. Evidently Mistaken. Ho was a polite appearing mnn, with a small leather case in his hand, and when he rang the bell tho lady of the limine, who was "reddin up" the par lor, did not four to go to the door, rag around her head and all. "I am selling a small article here," he began as soon as the period of usual salutation had passed. "I guess not," she interrupted. "I beg your pardon," he said in a cloud of coinprehonsivelessucss. "I said I guessed not," she smiled. "Guessed not what?" "Guessed you were not selling a small article here." "But I assure you, madam, I am, and I have been selling them all over town for a week past. " "I don't doubt that, but it isn't any sign yon are selling ono here, for you are not, nor will you. I don't know what it is, nor do I want to know, nnd I wouldn't want it if I did, so good morning," and sho firmly, but gently closed tho door in his faoo. "Wonder if thnt is another ono of them languago sharps from Boston, " ho soliloquized as bo went down the stops. Detroit Free Press. Spencer's Peculiarities. Herbert Spencer, whilo travoling in" England, pounced - upon rcry man in tho cars who smoked or who even at tempted to smoke out of the windows. "Is it disoreonblo to you?" they would ask. "Not nt all," he would ropljti "but it is against the law, and the law is a proper one. You have no right to -break it, and you shall not do it, and if you do not desist I will call tho guard. " With porter, cabby or steamboat oap- " tain he was ever ready to do battlo in the cause of justice, but he had no pa tience with chronio fault finding. "I used to visit Carlyle, " he said, "but he -has got so cross and misanthropio and raves so constantly about the hor-r-riblo state of things that I couldn't stand it. I do not want to argue with him, and I won't liston to his nonsenso, and so I stay away. "San Francisco Argonaut Collecting Astor House Rental Possibly it is not generally known that the Astor House block has two own ers, whose relations are strainod, to say the least John Jacob Astor and Wil liam Waldorf Astor. Although tho rent of the hotel Itself is necessarily paid in a single check, that of the stores and offices at one end of the building is col lected by the representative of one As tor, while the revenue from the other end is garnered by the representative of the other. National Hotel Reporter. Unjust Discrimination. Officer Phaneygan It's thin you're lookin, Mike. Officer O'Morphy'Tis the fault of the ohief, be hanged to 'im. ' Offloer Phaneygan How's that? Officer O'Morphy Shore, an he put me on a beat with never a fruitstand on it, the discriminating blaggardl Chicago Record. Knowledge will not be acquired with out pains and application. It is trouble some and deep digging for pure waters, but when once you oonie to the spring they rise up and meet you. Empress Josephine owned the finest opal of modern times. It was called "The Burning of Troy. " Its fate is un known, as it disappeared when the al lies entered Paris.
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