Is The Money Wasted?

A writer in the Washtenaw Times appears as an able attorney for the defense, in the case of the people of the State of Michigan ve. the English sparrow. In the course of his forceful plea he makes these points: The two-cent bounty has not reduced the aggregate sparrow population. It has stimulated a spirit of cruelty in the breasts of the young. It has led to the death of many song birds. The use of poisoned graiu has given the sparrow a cruel, liugering death. Cats and dogs .that have gaten the bodies of the poisoned birds have diedafter days of the keenest agony. The sparrow attorney defends Mb cliënt against the charge of driving away song birds, the lessening of whose number ia cities is due to other causes, which he cites. He asserts and proves by his own observation, that sparrows f eed their young almost wholly on caterpillars. His is the best plea for the sparrow that has come under our notice, and it is a question whether the $61,800 paid thus far in this state as a sparrow bounty hs not been worse than thrown away. Think of the bicycle paths it wou ld have built!-