Show ALSACE STORKS ON DECREASE careful supervision of birds shows show they are rapidly dying out various reasons given every year the number of 0 storks to be seen in alsace becomes less ess th s london dally daily globe states of the four nests perched on the big chimneys of 0 tile the old roofs of strassburg only one has been occupied this year in many of the villages the great migratory migra tors have ceased for a long ions time to relieve the landscape and it seems only a question of birne when the stork in alsace will be a memory various are the causes assigned foi to this desert desertion lon the drainage of the marshes the multiplication of tele phone and telegraph wires and tho the smoke from factory chimneys in germany for the better study ol of storks stories there has been created a sort of service in fit connection with the education department which tends to set up tip an betat civil for each bird or in fin other words to register them after the manner which obtains for citizens in france each bird to Is captured where possible and a metallic disk affixed to its to leg and german officials wherever thoi birds are believed to migrate have instruction tot to send to th the e department any information they can gather concerning storks which are german subjects possibly this labeling may have something to do with the scarcity by this system of registration the authorities have learned something of the migratory habits of the bird for instance one was found dead at the cape of good hope whose place of origin was vas eastern prussia A point of interest relative to the scarcity of the stork has been bro brought aught under tinder the notice of the authorities thorit ties les by a doctor at port elizaboth elizabeth 1 who suggests that they have been pol poisoned through eating grasshoppers or locusts which havo have been killed by arsenic 0 A correspondent however of an alsace lorraine journal hints that the cause la Is to be found nearer at home |