Show BIRD SLAUGHTER it I 1 carried on la la and cruel way the rush of tourists to florida increases every winter and BO much shooting every man nearly takes his gun is rapidly diminishing the game all through ahe country the time was and only a few bearg ago when ayery bay and lagoon was teeming with birds but when the fashion demanded that every comans womans bonnet should be decorates decora tei with some kind of a or men were sent to florida them and one expedition it is said with bird skins shot the winter such destruction is now aielt and although the authorities have now prohibited the slaughter it is like locking the stable after abo horse is w stolen on the river wild turkeys and dooks are shot wantonly from the decks of the steamboats and alligators all along the banks come in for a fusi lado from the rifles of the passengers on my recent trip on thia river I 1 saw numbers of turkeys shot as they were banks that were of course wasted as tha boat could not stop to pick thorn up and every flock of ducks hat rose was fired into killing or maiming more or leas of them not only on the ground of wanton cruelty should the owners of these bauts prohibit the use of firearms fire arms but it is a great annoyance to many passengers to have rilles and shotguns banging away around them to say nothing of the danger to life from the careless use of guns by moro boya as some of them wore it is a themo the forest and stream might properly bring to the notice of aba proper authorities the owners of the steamers in the cause and enter a protest against such wanton destruction of such rare game as the turkey as well as every other bird coming in for slaughter as 1 now the case on the river boats on tha southern elvora forest and |