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Which Shall It Be--kill Or Live?

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
November
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The miserable pot humters, who go omt -toto the country with the idea that they must kill soinething, anyway, are dieetroyilnig miany of our nativo and insect-eiating birds. The reeult will be thiat iiisecbs and worins will becomO sueh pjsts withhi a few years that no one wlll be able to uafoe adyMing. Tlie plagues that once vifcited Egypt wül be venewed herO ïa, the new world, and mankind ■vttl 1 liave to pa,y the pemalty lor lts ovtn fooLluardness. The person who lawlessly or uselissly kills a bird' coíninilts a crime agafadt tbe human ïamily. The same ia trae oí the oae who .ueedlsly cuts down a tree. Boith. tha birds aad the trees are necessü'ties to hounian life, as the human family will learn to ita sorrow if th wauton destructioii of botk dioes not oease. Kvory farmior omghit to post natices forbidding hunters - and we axe glad to sax miany have done so- from gotog on tihieir premises, and if they perait in doing eo, arrest tihe.ni tor trespass. No cnime e"ier goes unpunislied. Aoid iMs crini.e o-f elaugh tering cverythiimg in siglit which eoems to U)a'e tlakein possession of eome people, wül suredy have Ms punishment, iii which tJiousandK of Innocent will hare to suifer. . The peaaity for trespassitig, where digm have been puib up, Is in tmbstanoe as follows : "To bruint for game, wilth Ilrearms, dogs or otherwise on the enclosed lnindis or premises oí anotlher without t'he permiiission ol the owner or lesee Ijs a misdcmeamar. Tlie penalty, on oooiwction, is a fine of not less .thau iivo nor more thcm twenty Uollars, in tli discretion oí th-o court, and oasts. And if tïio fine is nob .puid, the defendant shall be conftned iu tba coumty jail not less tlian five nor more tlbaia thirty days.'1 An entlvusiastic church ïnember of PMladelphia has jast conrtrilbuted $1 to the cliurcli aa his birthday, pledgling hilmsell to dainble the amount on each anailversary o! hi birth lor the reeu of hlls Ufe. If lie keeps his pledge and Uves laag enough tbe church will llave, planity of money, for the amount of lite offering on hls birthdiay twenItyJive years henee will be $16,777,216. Ainn Arbor Modüafas : Thei partnerslüp known as Miss H. J. Salyer l& Co. lvaviag been dissolved, Miss Salyer wttli coatinue to miafca gowns In the tatest modie, at h-er residance, No. 554 Elizabeth st., cor. of Fuller.

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Ann Arbor Courier