The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-25

the sparrow refusing to quit the martin
called upon his friends for help. and sew
eral hundreds of martins came and at
lacked the usurping sparrow. Like Brer
Ierrapin the sparrow lay low" and
presenting his large beak at the aperture
OF the nest, severely pecked several in
Judicious martins which came within his
reach. After a quarter of an hours I'M
equal war the martins withdrew from
the field, and the sparrow began to con-
gratulate himself upon his superior STRAIT
egic qualities. But, alas Nemesis was
upon his track. In a short time the mar
TINS returned, each bearing some Of the
tempered earth with which they make
their nests With one accord they all
fell upon the sparrow, and plastered the
hole over with the soft earth. inclosing him
IN the stolen nest much in the same way
as were the guilty Nestal Virgins and
with probably similar result.
Even In our common law, with all its
boosted advantages, circumstantial evil
dence has been the means of hanging
many an innocent man, so IL is not to be
wondered at that innocent birds have
been done to death by feathered Judge
and jury through the same means Bishop
Stanley tells us that French surgeon
at Smyrna, being unable to procure
stork because of the great veneration
IN which these birds are held by the
Turks, took the eggs from a storks nest
and put hens eggs in their place. The
female stork, in all innocence, Matched
the chickens. This, it would appear. was
more than the male stork could stand.
He at once deserted the partner of his
joys and sorrows, and was not seen for
three or four days. At length he returned
in company with many other storks who
forming circle, placed the unhappy fe-
male in the middle and commenced TO
adjudicate upon the case. To bring forth
chickens instead of young storks. even
unintentionally, Is evidently a serious
crime among these birds, for they all fell
upon the prisoner and straightway killed
her
stilI more remarkable is a similar story
which comes to us from Berlin. Two
stOrks built a nest upon the chimney of a
mansion, the owner of which, finding an
egg in the nest, took IL and put goose's
egg in its place. As in the previous case.
the female stork Matched the egg much
to the anger of her companion, who cir
cled three or four times round the nest.
and then flew away. For some DAYS the
female stork fed the young goose, and
all went well until upon the morning OF
the fourth day the inmates of the house
were disturbed by a loud clamoring. This
noise proceeded from nearly 400 birds. who
were standing in a compact body. appar-
emily listening to the harangue of a soli-
tary stork, standing some % yards Off
After short time he retired, and anoth-
er took his place and addressed the court,
and in this way the proceeding continued,
until II IN the forenoon. Then the whole
court rose simultaneously I'm the air and
gave forth dismal shouts. All this time
the female stork was sitting in the nest,
trembling with fear, which. perhaps, was
not altogether unwarranted. for suddenly
the whole company of storks flew toward
her, headed by one, esumably the injured
husband. who struck her violently three
or four times knocked her out of the nest
and then killed her. The irate husband
next turned his attention to the unhappy
gosling, which he likewise killed. after
which the nest was destroyed, and the
storks flew away, no doubt perfectly salts
fled in their own minds that the law had
been indicated and justice done How
far the above anecdotes are to be accepted
in their entirety we will leave our readers
to judge We are aware how skeptical
some people are, particularly about fish,
dog, snake and other natural history sto-
ries. Personally, when stories like the
above are related by reverend and right
reverend gentlemen in all seriousness, we
accept them either without comment or
say with the clown in Measure for Meas
ure, why, very well, then; we hope
here be truths"