Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — Female Stork's Hard Fate. [ARTICLE]

Female Stork's Hard Fate.

The story is told that a French surgeon, wishing to pr&cure a stork, but being unable to do so, stole some eggs from a nest and substituted hen’s eggs The innocent female hatched but the male, angry at the strange appearance of his offspring, went away. Three or four days later he reappeared, accompanied by several others, who formed a circle about him while he argued his case. The jury without retiring brought in a verdict of “guilty,” and the poor, innocent mother was executed. While there are evidently a large number of crimes to which the death penalty is attached, death is not always inflicted, for the birds, some of them, at least, recognize different degrees of guilt and vary the punishment accordingly.