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Show tUllltf Klack Beit of Crudty ' in the Southern 1 B States I H New York, Jan. 2. Certain sccuons Hr the Sotitbem states are called J'the H'.tck belt of cruelty," In the inaga-Hino inaga-Hino of the American Society foithe 'rpvcntlon of Cruelty to Animate? .is-Hud .is-Hud today. The bulletin take-up H'c slaughter of birds for millinery. Ht ays in part: frj, H The strict bird laws of the north Hn never count for much if our Hci bored neighbors have to facejan H .-oral of unmerciful cruelty in their vintor abodes. In Georgia a miff the Krolinas, the wholesale shootin'gj: vf H nng-birds, protected in thehiorthf is Hjidely practiced. It Is an ordinary , H Iqht to see negro 'hoys coming Fnto Hhe towns early in the morning car-H car-H ,ng long strings of dead rooins. B-'ome of our cherished song birds jiro Hp tied at their roosting grounds and HLxosands are sometimes secure 1. in Hp night, only tho cholco birds being Hi:cd and the others thrown away. Hl Mourning doves, which in northern B t te arc preserved by common con- jV -"it by sportsmen and repay the cour-He;y cour-He;y by diligent work against insects, H'n tra)ped by thousands in tho south 'iQi'ida has been for years the scene H t iho barbaric slaughter of the snowy Hircns and egrets, until the beautiful H rds arc on the verge of extinction." |