Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-05-09
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LIFE Is CHANGEFUL.


There's many chord in the finely strung heart,
IF breathed upon lightly the tear drops will START,
Yet speak but word that is kindly and gay,
And smile, will soon vie with the tears for a sway
IT'S we'll to be merry, and we'll to te sa3,
For the overchareed heart cannot always be glad,
If We sing all the day with our spirits so light,
We cannot expect to rejoice through the night.
For mirth is psstimo to brighten the soul,
And lure it away from cares CALLING controls
Bot tears are a solace no stole car feel
fills sorrow is locked in bosom Of steel
The heart is not made CT all sunshine and mirth,
1t is too deeply tinged with shadows of earth;
But, though we are happy and joyous to-day,
We may weep bitter tears ere the morrow's away.
That life il but changed and happy the soul
That bows not beneath its corroding control
But whether the sky is serene or oe'rcas.
With Hope for your stay look aloft TO the last
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Don't destroy the Birds. How often have
we uttered the injunction to our readers,
and especially cur agricultural ones, that
they should not kill the birds! They are
the farmers best friend in killing them be
is injuring himself. And still, though this
has been pressed upon their attention too
oftea do We see heartless individuals putting
them out Of the way by Wholesale ''Sum-
mer is close at hand, and with its pleasures
will come the daily nuisance to those who
dwell amid rwral scenes, Of hearing the soft
notes of the shot gun" Every one who has
paid attention to the matter, knows that
even crows and blaekbirds are productive of
more good than harm, and that the vast in
crease of late years of destructive insects, is
owing almost entirely to the wanton dastruc-
ton of birds which are not even legitimate
game A thousand plans have been sug-
sested for the destruction Of thezcurculio
all of which have proved worthless. We
have one which We know to be infallible- -
protect the BIRDS
1.-The swallows arc the natural enemies of
the swarming insects, living almost entirely
upon them, taking their food upon the wing.
The common martins devour great quanti-
ties Of wasps, beetles, and goldsniiths. A
single bird viii devour FIVE thousand butter
flies in week. The moral of this is that
the husbandmen should cultivate the society
of swallows and martins about his land and
building. The sparrows and wrens feed
upon the crawling insects which Turk within
the buds, foliage, and flowers of plants. The
wrens are pugnacious, and a little box in a
CHERRY tree will soon be appropriated by
them, and they will drive away other birds
that feed upon the fruit, hint that cherry
growers should remember this spring, and
act upon The thrushes, blue-birds, jays,
aud crows prey upon butterflies, grasshop-
pers, crickets, loousts, and the larger bee
ties. A single family Of jays will consume
twenty thousand IN season of three months.
The woodpeckers are armed with long stout
bills TO penetrate lie wood Of trees, where
the borers deposit their larvae. They live
almost entirely upon these WORMS. For the
insects that come abroad only during the
night, nature has provided check in the
noctle barn owl, which take their food upon
the wing. How wonderful is this provis-
ion of Providence for the restraint of depre-
dators that live upon the labors Of man, and
how careful we should be not to dispute that
beneficial law of compensation by which all
things are established in their just relation
and proportion "--LancoSter (Po.) Whig.