Noble Sentiments

I assuro you of my hearty sympathy irith tho members of the Audabon Society in their efforts to prevent the wasto of these beautiful, happy, innocent and uaeful lives, onïwhich we depend for a large share of our natural snjoyment. I am myself more than tolerant of the somewhat intrusivo Intimacy of the English sparrow. No other birds outside of the barnyard let me como so near them - not even the pigoons. If I may chango tho Unes of Cowpcr a littlo: They re o well aoqualnted wltb man. TUoIr tameneas is chariniugr to mo. But stlll more am (I indebted to the gulls and ducks, who during a large part of the year aro daily visitors to the estuary of the Charles, on which I look from my library Windows. I wish thoy could be protected by law, and if law can not or will not do it, that public opinión, under the lead of your society, would come between them and their murderors. Not less, ccrtainly, do í feel the shame of the wanton destruction of our singing birds to feed the demanda of a barbarie vanity. II it would save them froin drstniction, I would say good-bye to tho wooilcock and sigh a long farewell to the canvasback. - Forcst and Streain. - A Texas editor says: "We novei could undcrstanil why so much shot 6hould be w;i-st(!d in killing binls whiU go manv vouuar men Dart their hair iu