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better Baptists, Methodists better Methodists, Catholics better 

 Catholics, and all better men and women — an atmosphere that 

 will inspire to higher thinking and nobler living. 



Let there be as much preaching of the gospel as ever — and 

 more — for the gospel of Christ is still "the power of God unto 

 salvation to every one that believeth," but let there be more of 

 the spirit of Christ in ministering to men. Make it easy for 

 people to do right and as hard as possible for them to do wrong. 



WILD ANIMALS AND BIRDS. 



(Col. G. O. Shields, president of the League of American Sportsmen, 1110 Simpson street. 



New York.) 



I don't know whether I am going to be able to talk much or 

 not. They tell me that things don't happen on the 13th of the 

 month any more than any other day, but they happened to me 

 yesterday, all the same. I caught the worst cold yesterday that 

 I ever had in my life. Two engines that were pulling the train 

 on which I came from -Cedar Rapids broke down at different 

 times. We developed a hot box two miles out of the Union 

 depot, St. Louis, but finally got in there four hours late — and it 

 was on Friday, the 13th of January! So I am here tonight 

 unable to perform my duties decently and respectably, but 

 fortunately I am limited to thirty minutes, after having traveled 

 fifteen hundred miles to talk to you people. I am to show you 

 seventy-five pictures of birds and animals. I was told by the 

 boss, the man who pays the bill, that I have only thirty minutes, 

 and I am going to try to get through in that time, and you will be 

 mighty glad when I do get through. 



I would like to talk to you all that thirty minutes about the 

 value of insect-eating birds, but I can do little more than touch 

 on that subject. I should like to appeal to you with the voice of 

 an old sportsman to save the quail and the prairie chicken from 

 the gunner. I was for many years an ardent sportsman, but I 

 quit all shooting thirty years ago, when birds began to grow 

 too scarce to kill, and I have been doing my hunting since with 

 a camera. I shall show you some of the results of this kind of 

 sport. Now I am begging the sportsmen of the United States 

 to make the sacrifice I have made. Let up on the birds; let up 

 especially on the quail and the prairie chicken, two of the most 

 valuable insect-eating birds in the world, and let them live and 



