Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-21

in this fable Of the vutures
Specially do we commend it, with such grim
compliments rs beseem its author, TO those
friends ol the vultures who wear The gsrb Of
spiritual shepherds. From the pulpits where
the red ensign Of Mars floats the white ban
ner Of Christ" they now cater for the vultures;
and. anon, with hands bedeWed in bapusmal
waters, dispense to their 1ocks sscrRmental
bread and wine We fear their Christ given
commission, Feed my lambs" is now read
Feed my yultures" ..f I LlUl
A CHURcH GoEs
THE sHErHEAD OF BOHEMIA.
As l WAS sitting, said shepherd Of Bobe-
mia, within a hollow rock, and watching my
sheep that fed in the valley, heard two vul-
lures in terehsngeaby crying on the summit
OF a cliff Both voices were earnest and de-
liberate Ny curiosity prevailed over the care
of the flock l climbed slowly and silently
from crag TO erag, concealed among the
shrubs till found cavity where | might cit
and listen without suffering or giving disturb
auce
soou perceived that my labor would be we'll
repaid, for an old vulture was sitting on a ma
ked prominence, with her young about her,
whom she was instructiug in the arts Of Sal
lures life, and preparing by the last lecture
and the skiee
My children, said the old yultute, you will
the less want my Instructions, because you
have had my practice before your eyes, you
have seen rue snatch itom the farm the house
hold iowl YOU have seen me seize the leveret
in the bush and the pasturage you know
how to tx your talon !, ,and now to balance your
flight when you are laden with your prey.
Bot you remember the taste Of more delicious
food have often RECALLED you with the flesh
OF man Tell Us, said the young vulture,
where man may be found and how he may be
known a|.l
His aesh issurely the natural food of vul.
ture. Why have your never broughta man
in your taIons to the uestH He is too bulky,
said the mother when we find man we can
only tear away his flesh, and leave his bones
upon the ground. Siuce man is so big, said
the young ones, how do you kill him You
are fraid of the wolf and of the bear, by
what power are vuliures superior to man ?
Is man more defenceless than sheep2 We
have not the strength of man, returned the
mother and am sometimes in doubt whether
we have the subtity and the vultures
would seldom feast upon his Aesh had not ma
ture, that devoted him to our uses, infused in
o him strange ferocity, which have never
observed in any oher being that feeds upon
the earth.
Two herds Of men will often meet and
| shake the earth with noise, and fill the earth
with fire When you hear noise and see FIRE,
with flashes along the ground hasten to the
place with your swiitest wing, for men are
surely destroying one another you will then
find the ground smoking with blood aud GOV
cred with carcasses, of which many are dis
membered and mangled for the convenience
OF the vuIture But when men have killed
their prey, said the pupil, why do they not eat
| it When the wolf has killed sheep he suf.
fers not the vulture " touch il till he has sat
isfed himself Is not man another kind OF
wolf2 Man, said the mother, is the only
beast which kills that he does not devour,
and this quality makes him much a bepe-
factor to our species If men kill our prey,
and lay il in our way said the young one what
need shall we have Of laboring for ourselves ?
Because man will sometimes, replied the
mother, remain for long time quiet in his
deu The old vultures will tell you when you
are to watch his motions
When you see men in great numbers NOV
ing close together, like fight of storks, you
may conclude that they are hunting, and that
you will soon revel in human blood But still
said the young one, would gladly know the
reason Of this mutual slaughter. / could new
er kill what | could not eat.
My child, said the mother, this is question
which cannot answer, though am reekoned
the most subtitle bird of the mountain When
l was young used frequently to visit the
ayfy OF an old vulture who dwelt upon the
Carpathian rocks; he had made many obser-
vations he knew the places that afforded
prey round his habitation, as far in every d.
rection rs the strongest wing can 6y between
the rising and setting Of the summer sun ; he
had fed year after year on the entrails of men.
His opinion was, that men had only the ap-
pearance Of animal life, being really yegeta-
bles, with power Of motion and that as the
boughs OF an oak are dashed together by the
storm, that swine may fatten upon the falling
Acorns, 30 men are by some unaccountable'
power driven one against another, till they
lose their motion, that vuItures may be fed.
Others think they have observed something
of contrivanee aud policy among these mis-
chievous things and those that hover more
closely round them, pretend, that there is in
every herd one that gives directions to the
rest, and seems to be more eminently delight
ed with wide carnage, What it is that en-
ties him to such preeminenee we know not;
he is seldom the biggest or the swiftest, but he
shows by his eagerness and diligence that he
is, more than any Of the others, a friend TO
vultures. u.r .. .. .IH
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[From the Kingston IN. ~ esSelte. June 4. 1900
FoR SALE, the one half Of a saw mill lying
in the town OF Roch ster And also, stout,
healthy, active NEGRo WEScH Apply to
John Schoonmaker, Jr., at Rochester
And negro men and women were then sold
all over the Northern States and there were
!, slaves in Connecticut ss late as ls48. Ism
il now pretty early for us up here to resolve
: that we are the Saints, and that all slsve.hold-
ers are the sinners That we will whip and
SubiB1dte all slaye.holdefR take awav THAR