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their earnest and animated conversations during 

 and after the lecture. The members of that 

 audience had been especially active in the killing 

 of birds, but their American instructors believe 

 that the lecture has had a markedly good effect 

 upon them. The worst offender in the audience 

 came to his teacher next morning and volun- 

 teered the promise that he would never kill 

 another bird. 



Ignorant Whites and Negroes in the South 



The problem of the ignorant whites and ne- 

 groes of the south, is of course a serious one, but 

 by no means unsolvable. The closing of the 

 markets for the sale of birds will do much to 

 discourage the slaughter which has character- 

 ized many of the southern states. A stiff gun 

 license would save the birds from an army of 

 tattered pot-hunters who now rake the fields 

 and woods, and might be the means of making 

 self-respecting citizens out of some of these shift- 

 less, hand-to-mouth people. But after all, it 

 will be the education of the rising generation 

 which will have the most lasting effect. Teachers 

 both white and colored can perform a valuable 

 service to their country by fixing in the minds of 

 their pupils the importance of protecting our 

 birds. Mr. E. A. Quarles, an officer in the 



