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Show AGAINST THE SPARROWS. Kditor Tribune: I can't understand how any sane perHon ran def.-nd n,,. Kngllsh sparrow Ho is the outcast of the btrd race and ought tc be exterminated. How-can How-can he be of assistance to the farmer, in destroying Insects, when he never leaves the towns? As for destroying ants, 1 should have to be shown to bcllev It for iny home Is infested with both nuisances and the ants Increase every year. They have driven away nearly all the song blrd.s, and even steal the nests from the few thai .ir.- left, in order to rear their own foul broods. 1 have heard that thev breed bedbugs, and know from personal observation that oftentimes their nests are lull of maggots The public buildings build-ings throughout tho country are defiled by them, also the statuary and monuments In the parks and eemetorlew. Theae same people who object to the war that is being waged agaliist them t" be consistent should not object to ants nnd cockroaches running over their food ind bedbugs sharing their Bleeping pla 1 a In India thousands Of people die .m-n. .m-n. ally from snake bites. v.-t the natives neyi-r kill trie snakes They have (he ex-11 ex-11 se .,f their religious bell, f, but the defenders. de-fenders. Of the sparrows haven't even that I'imsy excuse hlle the sparrows are not dangerous to life as are the venomous venom-ous reptiles, they are tho terror of invalids in-valids nnd light sleepers, and a public iMilsano- generally. They are filthy ln their habits, hangers on of towns and cities, cit-ies, where they get their living from gar-hnge gar-hnge cans nnd street dirt, and thieves and despollers .if the homes of the decent members of their race. They are aliens, nnd have no richt in free America When the boys ar taking their eges thereby earning an honest penny, they are doing a gooil work and are not breaking Windows and other nets of hoodlumlsni. It Is a fact that ihe spring following the w inter when so many eggs were collect) d as well as birds, a few years ago, ven (ew of the detested species were observed In this -dace Boys robbed birds" nests before the sparrow was ever brought to this country, and when they take sparrows' spar-rows' eggs they are doing nothing worse. Yours very truly, MAKY T. ARLINGTON Ogden T'tali, May 24. |
