| Show SAVE E A 1 E 11 A a I 1 AB TOU IOU eer ale seen ev a bald eagle the tha american erica egle our it 1 I e emblem in b III es the then ou it dan t t need to he be told ft A hat A thing of beauty and awer wlm he be us ia no tile take it on will faith I 1 fr from in those who I ie hae e that there them la Is no aidie living tiling thing than an eagle in ill the 0 air firn IN veil I 1 there m aie not a many al A american A eagles agi I 1 left aft civilization be has crowded an out 1 what it hant ha nt killed off pit a gun in the bands of the ordinary man and in agn A him a cham at an eagle ale and W 99 timm times out ot of ft a hundred the or denary man mac mofid a shoot dhoot ft by A ap par parent cutly ly just tor for th the sake he of killing thais ahat a gons gun 3 tor for and that 8 the nay may tile the ordinary Arv man also to Is made th the writer expects to have it brought Ir might up to ills him credit on the judgment judgie day y volt ha lie once had such much a chance and lid didt shoot built most of marlema eagles that are left are in alaska and now in alsha aliska the me men are kil killing lillic for off eft the american eagle for the sake of a fiffi cent bowdy and the unit ed cd states government nelch aich golins the territory of Al alaska ludi is in effect paving this bounty naturally there Is protest against gal t tills most surprising state or of things J 31 do il secretary t ary of the publicity committee of the Anner american lenn museum ot of natural history Il butor tew new york eft city sends out A protest 1 in which he aids much has box be been written in depreta tion ot of the permitted berwitt ed extermination of the wild slid pigeon at g eon formerly ro merly found it ID almost I 1 incredible all Is numbers be I 1 in some pait it of the united audited states the species was utterly tta ri iad a out at by on unrestricted y shooting 1 0 and d the destruction ot it its ilg the nals and so rapid was tile the process of its 10 extinction that tile the bird bud bad before e the public reali realized led its need of prate protection n chiat A similar fate e no now threatens the Ameri american carl or bald eagle conr or mat callona hould emblem and one of if tile the roost net I 1 beautiful Asic alful and magnificent tit of our until nathe birda and by a curious franc the d lh Is being at public expense as provided in the bounty Is law passed by the or of alaska on an april 30 lla the batu bald eagle are b bat never been porte Emlo estimates ulten of lt II numbers he hae genera goner elv ltv bre been gil g il it Is only on the tells of hie gu occupied arst ext that its fly 2 leil 11 number or rather Us its real met felti can be computations based on an obAr pi atins wAtis ot of tile the birds then belies illi are eliy unreliable ml lb for far plou bv be its size III and ad helium habits and ad by it iti tor far coast I 1 relon and ad m larace rivers river a is lemote A foresh and ad ill mountains islas it 1 is ery cry pt to nt at orrt I 1 lamble attention tt tiA and ad ill lie banie amin or aro doubtless doubt liss tian ii again get and aa rails till 11 be iel 1 w I 1 id I d 1 in cooil derail on of 1 the bird a nut it annl 1 longevity anil all suong outing powers palms of night figh b cb make it p possible sibl for far a ank fridli front to be I 1 repeater ly oer n perk period a I 1 of many mamy bears car mail and 1 an fn tt baily mccu rated places up to the abe present time the only aft ahil tile hold eagle his 1118 mill hibler encouraging imudia lt la b afen tile the coastal region mur find I 1 large a a river 1 1 levs 11 1 of alack here lt it did ill breed in n numbers ambers ti large for a 11 bird ot of its slut slot stze tile the mellon bounty I 1 liw I 1 provides tor far the favo ural of 50 met cents for far each ell ensle eagle it de it ft went dt into effect onla A on april SO 30 bill IH lied had already by april 10 19 B resulted reul ted in the kill ing of eakles R 1 I 1 moreover e r the bounty seekers seef cera hae h le mulo uble lly illy not confined their depredations to alaskan territory tent orv rv but have eiten dd them 1 in to th the british provinces province adjoining ainslie alaska to in order to well swell their galls gains it Is possible p ible that by this time more ill than one halt PIr perhaps liep more Is ill than tb of the entire species hills already been sacrificed it if action is fa to be taken take it t he be nt at once lor protection to be or et feet A must list couie come not merely before tile the species has bus been annil nn minia ill abed ted but bat before it has been so reduced As aa to alff alfter e I 1 tile the weakening effect of inbreed ing or tile the edlam of at the lie scattered inith to end each other and raise kuung in view of nil 11 that Is by of the habit of 0 true this 1 in olTen ff she I 1 bird the hostility to the ingle eagle in alaska is based i illier on en facon antion a and A I 1 1 ignorant th thin on a ani al mol damage dune done b D the III blida ill the tries of its ferocity unit and ewa ew a to same gains or domestic animals ale aie for tile greiter part pure pum fiction for ill hie brebt I 1 adf g gios I 1 ex I 1 I 1 it 1 Is t the I 1 it dun policy of D tile lie united states stares ot of agi i cult lire olse tin from PI j to d antema bounty Is f for or it the illon of abda of pre banca amal r sa bat tut betth h III in tile control of ful mile I 1 I 1 is f md by tile the ie dr or I 1 clion tit of such bull F our or 41 crim ingle chire 1 Is tile the added pl pin or of its ta buld haulm and bui as it 1 is a lori bird the lie liht rl lit to lly ll y it to cannot not be claimed by liny any state bante or tto 3 I 1 like eke emst of our or mins birds bird it SIA id lie protected tid I 1 0 1 11 the is 1 federal I 1 it im I 1 dulst A tiel d a ns ill hie effet of IIII he ifal 1 la for it ita rues pica at n in ami of if our lan tt I III fie ns am luald by tin on ahw of a ingle 1 tint flary tory th ohp genital indifference to the few fata of he 10 lo bird of splendid limit it alon 11 I 1 it due beyond doubt to the coal mod lic or of A regarding 6 A m alb threatened extinction the situation aidla for the ibe widest publicity the sheer beer lamb illan of the destruction of 0 the bird should be chr chrrid IId and chert check ed it nt at once am tile the cir crusade for far lie its p pro should enlist the and sincere effort of bird lovers and bird students throughout ill the conn claw of ow our scientific Ionti and patriotic so a bletl moieties and of the public press it is in only aide by the prompt passage of a federal law Is protecting the americ itt ing eagle that our national at I 1 bird can be saied allied fr from in total extinct extinction n let me renew the adjuration ot of capt H W V sh shoemaker maker of pennsyl mm to do a whit con you can to stop atod the slaughter of american beachm along the he almah coast t a writer davs in the S saturday evening post posit by rabon of tile the g rement bounty olter offer were 1 kili hillid cill in eighteen mouths months tile tl is 1 Is A nn absolutely unnecessary necessary a at to of life halt bafs difed killed fifed some m of the ha jonm line foxes on on one or two too fox pre bencs ell on an almida blinds d a though they limit haie A neer detroy cd the lid foxes or of alaica 1 in all 11 the he centuries they hae in lied torether together 1 I 1 agree do kill hill a fe few salmon and oil out car n I 1 few the that A anre found did d but bat I 1 in no nice tie do tile aliey any berj th they lon liay kill rab rabbits lilt now and ad again go bu but in no ao sense asset ham bare they been of wild lid game par the m mt most t part amit file they imog hung along the coast suit and rile me a on fish life A dmd dead whale lasts them a long abile i there them is no re reason on earth why 1111 them hard bald emelei ducle of f that species clesi chich we hale hae been proud to call the blid of freedom of that spectra species which we As have base put on our coinage and our mr sell oll should be destroyed under a bounty off offered I 1 red by any branch of tile hie american government it a waa apt shoemaker by tile the we liiv who so far as an 1 I 1 know was awl the first me man n to do put t into print the beliet belief that the beat protection ot of game did not consist to in one war A upon pon the th enemies of 0 I 1 alie I 1 Is game on the part of man capt cap shoemakers a con el clu ilona were ere that a coder III the old lowa laws of 1 nature the be strong specimen mena survived and that the bet development 1 or of adv A species on nna 1 lo 10 the nuda m of it tta natural me at 1 his theory ba bolstered liter hy by is entirely against the modern proposition that you can save fare quoit or phonse by killing crows crimm or basks or that you con can save eave trout by killing A it Is but a fr feeble his defense that wild gome game an elect out at of 0 its increasing an of inan and lis him demila and ahe ionin to alet to in true hipa feet of instead of sn inch inched unit una 0 o uses ino we e open nater but lie Is not am sale tile the moy coey A of f quail learns to fly to tile the I 1 densest t lia scamp timp a on the ile covey ley rise nsf but bill it Is not safe bare tilt I 1 p go to aha lit iest the be olk elk lo 10 a hie 1 1 I 1 t A I 1 A of om alan enins 1 1 anit ale 1 not at safe trans and abl aim on the I 1 p put it or of 1 in A b tiie outrun all 11 I 1 lie II 11 of our will game so bo it il comes chapil to a q of we us want it a 0 ant dm I 1 till IL ft |
