Traps English Sparrows

If every public-spirited citizen who has grieved over the almost total loss of song birds through the pugnacity of the sparrow would follow the example set by Jack Durney, a downtown youth, it would not be very long before the feathered songsters would return again In full force, says the Philadelphia Record. On the roof of a building in the back yard of the Durney homestead a sparrow trap is erected and is in full swing night and day. Not only are the feathered pests capturad by the dozen, but all the friends of the Durney f.imily fcr squares around will testif to the fact that nothing on earth compares with fat sparrows when cooked in a potpie. The trap is one into which the birds hop to get the grain and bread crumba plainly in sight. Once inside the bird3 did not know enough to come out. The sparrows feed more on a cloudy and windy day than on a still, brisrht day. but no matter what the wsather ia, it is a poor day when the trap will not yield fifty sparrows. Mr. Durney says he is going to get his trap patented and then induce the legislature to pay so much apiece for dead sparrows. Then he'll make his trap earn him a fortune.