The Savannah morning news., 1901-05-27
GOOD WORDS ron THE BIRDS.
why They Help the Farmer More
Than They Injure Him.

From Success.
The thinking people of this country are
gradually awakening to the fact that the
mania for killing birds which has exist
ed for over a century. needs substan-
tal check to prevent the absolute exter-
mination of the feathered friends of
humanity.
The first intimation that something
would have to be done to protect Ameri-
can animal life, was the rude shock
caused by the announcement that the
vast herds of bison were no more-and
the pitiful and abortive effort of the gov
eminent to protect few isolated speci-
mems in Yellowstone Park. In the past
five years, a similar sentiment has led
to the creation of the Adirondack Park
in New York, and much needed restric-
Ave legislation for the protection of
deer
What statistician will compute, what
orator will present, and what legislators
will provide the data, formulate the
bills, and pass the laws necessary to
save the wondrous bird-life of this con-
tiuent from the fate of the bison and the
deer?
The economic valAe-the appeal to
sordid commercial ideas-even If no other
phrase of humanity should be reached
in this age of commerciaHsm, should
speedily bring about the passage of laws
protecting bird life.
Come out into the woods with me, and
watch a pair of busy wrens or hundred
ether birds as they toll from daybreak
until sunset, and sometimes later. Try
to count the number of trips they make
during the day, and estimate, If you can,
the quantity of destructive insects that
is required as food for the family. You
will find yourself growing tired Of count
ing and will gradually multiply the In
sects brought in at each trip by seconds,
minutes. hours and days, until the num-
her will appal you. Then you will have
a new idea of natures law of compensa-
ton; you will begin to realize that the
birds you imagined were such menace
to your berries, cherries. apples ana
other fruits. are really the protectors
and you can thank them for every sound
wholesome piece of fruit that is marketed,
and also for the product OF your flower
and vegetable gardens.
Talk of Marriage.
From the Nineteenth Century.
man may remark on his intention to
marry at some indefinite future time,
when prudence and other considerations
NAV make 1t possible or advisable, with
out having, as a rule, to run the gaunt-
let of a chorus OF impertlnent and stupid
would-be witty remarks. But should
girl be bold enough, or rather natural
and simple enough. to say the same thing,
what would be the result? Why, every
one knows that she would be promptly
sneered out OF countenance. And why?
Is it iu.modest for a woman to express
a determination to enter into state
which we are being continually reminded
is a natural and honorable state, while
IL is modest and proper for a man to
do so? Such a distinction would never
be drawn except for the "cheapness" to
which reference has been made. If a
man wants to marry he can marry; IL
the first woman he asks refuses him, he
has only to ask a second, or perhaps
third or fourth 1t would be safe 20
guarantee that within a month any man
of fairly respectable life and position and
appearance who cared to make the ex-
pertinent could marry in his own class,
could marry probably woman much su-
perior to himself. But what about The
girl who intends to marry some day."
Is she not in a very different position
from the man? Here is a girl of good
character. much better than the mans,
probably-average intelligence, average
good looks Theoretically, she is free 70
marry whom she will but is she? II
she receives one distinct offer of mar
rage she has had more than her share.
according 10 the probable average. The
fact trat, by an unwritten law, a woman
must not take, and, indeed, does not want
10 take, tic initiative, has very little to
40 with the extremely limited choice
which modern conditions impose upon En-
glishwomen