| Show DONT DONIT KILL THE TIM BIRDS we are informed of a very reprehensible hen sible habit on the part of certain young people in the town instead of setting themselves to useful work and putting in their time profitably they go about the streets and fields loafing and worse than this they procure firearms a practice altogether ether dangerous on the part of ju and go out on errands of mischief by shooting birds this is is in ill the first place a ead sad index of their depravity as it betrays a deplorable plo rable degree of cruelty A person that will destroy the harmless winged creatures just for the fun full of the thing is not likely to manifest any over great g reat kindness to his human fellow beings on the other hand several species of birds are strictly protected by law and the killing of them is likely to prove expensive pastime for the youthful sportsmen to then again this shameful slaughter of birds is a it serious drawback to farming as every child knows that the feathered denizens of the air destroy immense numbers of insects and thus protect the crops every bird killed means just so much deduction from the harvests and crops hence they should bo well protected instead of being allowed to become the prey of r reckless eckless yo who are too lazy to learn or to work finally there exists an ordinance against promiscuous shooting in the city limits and we understand from the very best authority that offen derfl against this ordinal ordinance will i be lanty looked after and andi brought up for it for all these reasons we think it more than advisable we say absolutely necessary for the guilty parties to refrain from further depredations dat ions and it would also be wise on an the part of the parents of such lads to remonstrate with them and stop the source of the evil by taking from them their pistols or guns f for which they have no more need than a blind man for glasses |
