The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-07-07

portion OF MANKIND mas believed tina
}: The sparrow. the English sparrow
l. should pay the full penalty for IN
e -rlme. and his seli-appointed Judge
}. and eIecutloners have been legion. Blu
J, he has lived and thrived In spite d
5 them. Other crimes Of many kind
have been charged against him #
many countries: a price has been pu
} on his head In this land OF the free
and he has been declared an outlaw b,
state government and municipalities
The department Of agriculture hal
Illuminated It's lightnlngs against him
from Washington. and learned socIetie,
have Numbered his doom. But ever,
spring he chlrps and twltters with re-
newod ylgor and mates and nests and
grows In number amazingly. Now
however the cable brings the new
that he has been condemned In the
house OF his friends. In Merry Eng.
land Itself Mr. william u. Teget.
meier. a naturalist OF renown aud an
author whose word on scientific sub.
iects carries great weight. has pub
lished book about the sparrow. and
In II declares that the bird Is pest.
and that In England alone he infiicts
damage which amounts yearly to mill
lions Of pounds strellng Through all
his trials and during all the crusades
against him the pert and clipper spar
row has had hosts OF warm friends who
have defended him calamity and have
met the onslaughts OF his enemies with
all the yigor and often with the bitter
ness Of Jealous partisans. But what
can they say now7 Found guilty by n
Judge In his own home. what remains
but 20 pass the sentence OF death upon
him finally and forever II seems clear
that the confessed murderer OF Cock
Robin ia doomed for good and all and
that at last the sparrow must go. That
looks simple and easy but Il isn't. for
little Mr.. Sparrow In anower to the
condemnation. and the sentence OF the
court will simply cock his head on
one side and ask: well. what are you
going to do about ~" And his SUI
preme confidence IL justified by expert |
ence. Ever since he was first intro
duced into this country from his ma
tive heath. about hfty years ago. he has
proapered and multiplied immensely In
spite OF all efforts to keep him in |
check. and against commissions OF ma
ture and the Vaccinations OF powers
and prlnclpalltles." The blizzard OF |
1883 came. and he was frozen by the |
tens OF thousands. One storm in the |
summer Of 1898 scattered dead spar
rows through the city parks and In
lanes "as thick as leaves that |
atrew the wales OF Vallombrosa. Pot
hunters have sought his life and sold |
him By thousands as reed birds. Small |
boys with air guns and pea shooters /
have been his scourge. and tho man |
who spread nets under his rooatlng
place at night and shook him down to
death In hundreds has been his bane.
but he has lived on and brought up
HIS wonderfully Increasing families
year by year. Poison has been tried,
but II was found that other birds and
were hurt more than the spar
row. who Just wlnked aud passed by
on the other side from the enyenomed
Boston has lately been stirred
up against the sparrow. The Amerl.
can Society OF Bird Destroyers. whose
headquarters are there. and whose OBJ
ject II Is to bring back native song
birds which have been driven out By
one means or another. has taken up the
rudgols against the slayer OF Cock Rob.
In. and is carrying on n lively crusade
against him. a petition thirty feot
long was presented to Mayor Quincy
asking that steps be taken to extermi. ,
nate the hated bird. and the mayor
went into the work with a will. The
method which Is being tried In Dos.
.on TO execute the condemned criminal,
IA TO destroy his nests and eggs, and '
he enemies OF the bird hope for great
results from the warfare. The Bos. =.
on indictment against the sparrow in.
'ludes his crimes against Cock Robin \
md Other mild-mannered birds, whom
no drives away with his Vicious and |,
tagging tactics, as we'll as his destrue. !.
.lyeness to trees and shrubs and hls
general course as public nuisance
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