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Show jw;. RREN" FOSTER ON THE ENGLISH S PAnn6y. A There has been, since the second and final retirement of ,Sher-- ,Sher-- lock Holmes, a dearth of good deduction fiction. "For the moment it looked as though we would have to again have recourse to the Nick ' .A A Cartec stories of our .youth. ; A AvAI-;'1:' A . But our fears, it now appears, were groundless. Our Worries 1 i f are indeed at an end: IT IS ALL DUE TO WARRENFOSTEB. In a. signal article in the Tribune of yesterday he jumps inio the spotlight striving for public commendation.- Hr. Foster's article is , , j weighty, indeed, from the standpoint of quantity. - It extends oter-some' oter-some' three columns.' It hits the consumer's idea bt a ton of coal, A IT IS THE FULL 2000 POtlKDS AND THEN SOME. " A " . J. The article is headed "Robbing Birds'. Nests a Crimed and MrA j V Foster is to be commended for signing his name td it It waS f or- ! ttjnate in more ways than one If it had appeared In dialect beta V would have been laid that it emanated from Mr. Dooley of Archy j 5 ' Road, and, aa it imany believe THAT GEORGE ADE PENNED , j IT. As a piece of humof it is genuinely funny and "sparkles with V wif ' . ; ' , r , JUST WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT JS HARD TO TELL. It j) takes a fall out of the City Council, runs Caesar Lombroso, the fa- ; . : mous Jtalian criminologist, a close race for prestige, in Jbis Chosen vocation, strives for Dr. Watsons5 confrere's honors, and would do, for an editorial for either "Puck,f or "Judge." s ; 1 ; - '"'r-'. i - - ' .' -' -.' '.'-".,. . . ' :. , ' ' --y- ., ' J. . It has Sherlock Holmes out-Sherlocked just as far as. Holmes overtops in ability a Salt Lake policeman.- As the article does riot ! run in sequence and has vno end apparently, a delve at any old plac i will do for a criticism. Mr. Foster, In what-would be chapter 755 if tha article were broken up in torqper, lengths, says THAT THE, BOT WHO WILL KILL AN ENGLISH SPARROW FOR THE BOUNTY OF 1J CENTS WOULD KILL A MAN FOB f 1.50. Hd then makes this startling statement: r : i , , t A S "'Great men are never made up from boys who rob birds ne8ts.,, " By this .time Mr. Foster has -his typewriter working at chug-wa chug-wa gon speed. Then he dasties off this effusion- It reads like a sec-; sec-; tion of - Laura Jean Libby V novels where the hero 'meets her ' people" for the first time.' A - '' " ' : ' ; ' - -A-' -' , V V-:'A--'--... : ! 5Who are the little sparrow damaging?", says Mr. Foster. "As thef hate never 3dmag"earae, I fail to. see how or in what way they have ever damaged anybody else." A. ' Cotild anything really be more charmingly modest? - Butf then, 1 ' those who know Mr. Foster know he must be SINCERE IN THIS' '! RESPECT, So lohg as he i Immune there is no need "of a . protect- lag law for the rest bf ns. But, then, we are really glad he has so j far suffered no loss. We can now overlook the depredations' against' J . orir own property with smiles and chortle" with glee ,KNOW IN.O A A THT WARREN FOSTER IS BTILL INTACT; f - : J : ' But the piece de resistance of the whole three-column plea in that the little sparrows are really beneficial as against the state-j- ment that they are birds of prey V ' - -A' A .. i have lived among'them and I know," .Mr. Foster. says. r Won't Mr. Foster elaborate more on this interesting point tWt ; te has 'aived among themr DID HE, TOO, FLIT FROM TREE. 1 1 ; AlO TREE AS THEY. DO? Ii'this million or more worded article just & "chirp" or "tweet" of bird life? If Mr. Foster hasVUved among them" he should have employed his time to better advantage., advan-tage., rie might, with great profit, have studied the bird with a view of MAKING FOB MAN A FLYING MACHINE rather than have spent ten years arriving at a conclusion which be set off. But Mr. Foster is to be commended forthe"passage. ' He say "all birds re birdsAYe fully agree with him in one respect, but' there is a great differenceln, some ways; V ' -:; I "".'A. A-: We disagree xith Mr: Foster that the killing, of .'dn-English; sparrow by a boy conclusively proves that he will ih'late life ocA copy a felon's cell! BUT FOR THE PROTECTION OF. ALL THE I BIRDS THAT ARE BI-R-D-8 WE STAND ; SHOULDER TO-SHOULDER TO-SHOULDER WITH MR. FOSTER. . ! , - V: ' ' A;' 'L; . He is to be commended for' his stflnd.ori this phase and also for A the quantity of his artlcie.AA- A ; ; : A' : A; ' .'".'. .'.'" L - - - - - - . |