The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-04-09
PHILADELPHIA.
Correspondence of the Bedford Gazette.
PHTL'A., March 81, 1856

Correspondence of the Bedford Gazette.
PHTL'A., March 81, 1869.
Rarely do we see Easter dawn so
bright and warm as it did here. A
natural consequence was that the
churches. street cars and pavements
were crowded. Every body was out,
and saint and sinner observed Sunday
fully in way peculiar to each. The
evening drew on with a cloudy sky
and Monday set in with the old fash
ioned rain and storm. Good Friday
was observed with sacramental services
and appropriate ceremonies by the
Catholic, Episcopal aad the Lutheran
churches belonging to the General
Council. AS the Lenten Season has
closed, places of amusement will take
a fresh start. We are pleased to say
that Good Friday was also respected
by many business places closing, as dH
ought to do and we cherish the hope
that the day is not distant when it will
be made legal holiday all over our
country. Church festival seasons are
certainly as important as the birth days
of some of our statesmen.
WHAr VIII. YOU DO WITH THEM Z
Politics must be thriving on your
side up there: for the GAZETTE pre-
sents quite an army looking toward Of
fee. Now those names are all worthy
and solid, but not more than one for
each office will, on nomination day,
be able to say, ga fine day gentlemen,
splendid'' but the rest won't see it on
that side by a good deal, and think it
exceedingly disagreeabie. We heard
of a nominee once, who after an cleo
tioneering tour settled himself down
by count on being elected just e.ractLy.
When the election was over he was
five hundred votes short. On being
interrogated as to his defeat, he said
that he would have been elected, but
he found out after the election that
there were fire hundred liars in the dis
trict--juSt erdctLy! Now, the moral is
pointed. If everybody is going to 'do
something" for every candidate, a very
| broad conclusion will be drawn after
the nomination. Let every tub stand
on its own legs. THAT'S the quotation,
amt it?) At any rate, those who are
not successful understand political
philosophy sufficiently well to be able
to say, "It's all right" even while
they think it would have been quite
as right if it had taken a slightly diff
ferent turn According to my no.
ton, ;" is every mans rule of right.
Other peoples take different direc-
tion sometimes.
BIRDS.
Since our last we have seen an article
on taking care of Birds which is in ac-
cordance with the views we then gave,
and which we sheuId love to see entire
in every paper. Whatever may be
the faults of your correspondent in 9TH
er respects, he has a pleasing conscious
ness, in his old days, of never having
robbed birds nest of any kind, nor
taken a single life of bird for the sport
of it. And now as the "time for the
singing of birds has come," fresh in
terest exercises our mind in their be-
half. This, we hope, will become gen.
eraI, not alone on account of their inno-
cence and beauty, but also for their
economic value. Especially should
all those in agricultural communities
thpi OF IN fhiu 1ir0pfinr
and seek to put an end to the indis-
criminate destruction of these little
creatures which are the very best
friends the farmers have-except their
wives. We cannot, therefore, forbear
giving you short extract, as the wri-
ter of the article speaks by the book.
And fit be true of a single bird, what
must be the aggregate estimate of the
many thousand species?
The robin is generally regarded as
the pest of fruit growers, and he GER
tainly does plunder to large extent
the smaller fruits, but it has been dem
onstrated by careful examination of
the contents of his stomach that dur
ing six or seven of the months in which
he is in this region he is exclusively a
benefactor. During the early spring
months insects in different STAGES of de-
velopment form his sole food. The
larvte of two hundred insects ofa most
destructive class have been taken from
the stomach of single robin.
1t has been proved that young robin
will consume forty-One per cent. of
animal food more than his own weight
in twelve hours, and this food usually
consists of earth worms, cut worms,
and other destructive insects.
1.-THE measure worm" or Nspan
worm it is said has been driven from
the Central Park by the English spar
row. recently introduced there, a pair
of which will destroy four thousand
caterpiilaFs weekly.
Researches shoW that every species
of bird has its particular use In the de-
struction of the injurious insects and
vermin, which constitute the greater
part of their food. Birds are in gener-
al far more useful than hurtful, and