Show The Sparrows These frisky little importei ar i tides are falling into bad repute Citizens say they destroy everything in their gardens and make a terrific litter on the windowsills porch railings and every other part of their houses where they can find standing room In one instance in-stance a prominent citizen of First Simth street had an entire patch of young cabbage plants entirely de stroytd by the little vixens Like many another Imported article they have b en m9de cheeky by breathing breath-ing the air of America They build then nests in ths ornamentation of the capitals on Corinthian columns in peoples porticos and it is cal cula ed that if a fellow would standstill stand-still long enough they would erect them in his hair or behind his ears Now the ordinance says distinctly that the English sparrows shall not ba killed and prescribes a penalty for the slaying of them It was fondy sapDo ed that they were In sec ici es oi the most effective kind but a doctor hps cut ap quite number num-ber of them just to find out what kind of det they were enjoyingand found no sgncf anything hue an insect in their maw v o sir nothing noth-ing had passed the liB of the young robbers but first class sprouts buds of trees iud tender garden vegetation vegeta-tion It really l oks as though we had gone to the troable of importing anotter insect |