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Show Nature Recovering Its Own, It was once the common practlco of tourists to shoot birds and alligators from tho decks of Bteainhonts on Florida Flor-ida rivers and lakes. This abominable, because cruol and useless, warfare was waged until tho supply of victims for iho brutality was nearly exhausted. Tho development of the Florida rail-wny rail-wny system, by which tho tldo of trnvel hns boon directed from tho water courses, has had a direct and marked effect on the wild llfo of tho country. Instead of tho leisurely prog-res prog-res hy water craft, touiljts are now whirled through tho cor -try by rail, and tho bloodthirsty contingent hns no oppprtunlty to deal out dath at every turn. Tho waters and t' o shores are once again becoming populated with birds of plumo and ovon the alligator Is coming aguln Into peaceful possession posses-sion of his mudbank. Forest and Stream. |