The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-11-23
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n old man told me yesterday that
" very great majority of game birds
( Matched this year have fallen by
hunters gun or the trappers who sell to
the towns.
Ii was a knowing old man who told mo
tIiis-only Il few weeks OF the hunting
season now past ard the birds all gone
This should stir every thinking man 10
the preservation of our birds. Tho poets
even should turn their rhymes and their
sentiments to the end that our birds be
preserved. Brown Is more than willing
to do his part-like many another poet
hs Is glad to spout, and l ask that we
let him spread himself. Here he goes
God made the seasons--made them right
II is mans bad conduct IL there's bAgnt'
The leaves may se2rs
AS frost draws near.
But there Is always happy chesN
Somewhere IN sight. =
From budding spring through winters ice,
In every land there is something NICE
II we but strive
To keep alive - a.
Such things as Goo "ouiu ii"F0 ~
thrive,
There'd be no vice.
These seasons all have each their olFos'
AS sure as spring increases n9IuS'
And every place
Is but a grace
Bv songs and beauties sweet to trace
Like cheering words.
Then shame 1t is that man finds fun
In dealing death by trap or gun,
And sfoops to steal
DER wood ard held
With dogs along TO help reveal
Where sweet birds run.
All. cruel man, your point or view
Claims all things of earth Tor YOU
But you will miss
Full many bliss
By standing on Such Greco DIS inns
Till birds are few
Cou1d find words that would impart
The cruelty of such heart
AS feels not pain
When II has slain
A Door sweet bird that only came
The season part
Then l am sure that men no moro
Would shoot the bircs theey shot oerore,
But full and free.
In joyful glee.
They'd sing for you and sing for me
| They'd sing from door to door.
Thev'd sing by day and sing by night.
And never cease their singing quite,
Till all would say
God bless the DAY
THAT gave us birds 10 sing TINS way
Like odd Bob hNe
The cabbage serpent that there Is JUST
now So much scare about Is simply one
- che fruits Of killing our birds. If birds
n n her IL
he no vile serpent in the cabbage TO keep
,aonle from eating them and spending
money TO help along the farmer that
raises them. SO it Is with many announcer
,hine They tell me that out west there
has appeared an insect which promises
!. maka cotton raising in that section q
failure. This is ali from killing the plrds
and no telling what calamities will be-
fall US If we keep on IN THIS slaushter' IT.
i. not country people who Kill the great
ma4oritv of these birds The town hunt
ers are the ones who stay them without
mercy ana without thought Of their use
fulness. Let n crowd Of these town hunt
ers get a sight Of q drove Of partridges
ana tbev follow them to determination.
An intelligent farmer told me that fruit
trees would go to blight In Georgia II
there was not greater effort made To
save the birds. Already market garden
ers have discovered that the birds are
necessary. One of these gardeners is now
feeding hogs on as fine cabbage as you
ever saw just from the scare that has
arisen over the poison worm. No worm
could exist IL birds were as plentiful as
they used to be. The bird laws as they
stand today are of very little benefit to
the saving Of birds The season for hunt
ing is only delayed to make grand rush
when the time does arrive What we need
is a prohibition of killing birds for a
number of years. There will be a sreat
many killed in spite Of the law, but q
big part of the town hunters could be