Connecticut western news., 1893-01-12

ton, ana sunday evening ft came DaCk with a leaf that had the sign of just hay ing been plucked from a living fruit tree, and the bird reported the world would do tolerably well for a bird to live in, but not yet sufficiently recovered for human residence.
 Noah waited another week, and next Sunday morning he sent out the dove on the third exploration, but it returned not, for it found the world so attractive now it did not want to be caged again, and then the emigrants from the ante diluvian world landed. It was 8 bird that told them when to take possession of the resuscitated planet. So the human race were saved by birds wing, for, at- tempting to land too soon, they would have perished.
 THE LESSON OF THE DOVES.
 Aye, here comes a whole flock of doves rock doves, ring doves, stock doves and they make Isaiah think of great re- vivals and great awakenings when souls fly for shelter like a flock of pigeons sweeping to the openings of 8 pigeon coop, and he cries out, "Who are these that fly as doves to their windowsY' David, with Saul after him, and flying from cavern to cavern, compares himself to a desert partridge, bird which es- pecially haunts rocky places, and boys and hunters to this day take after it with sticks, for the partridge runs rather than flies.
 David, chased and clubbed and harried of pursuers, says, "I am hunted as par fridge on the mountains" Speaking of his forlorn condition, he says, "I am like pelican in the wilderness" Describing his loneliness, he says, II am swallow alone on the housetop." Hezekiah, in the cancellation of his sickness, compares himself to a crane, thin and wasted. Job had so much trouble he could not sleep nights, and he describes his insomnia by saying, II am companion to owls ]" Isaiah compares the desolations of ban ished Israel to an owl and bittern and cormorant among city's ruins
 Jeremiah, describing the cruelty of par ents toward children, compares them to the ostrich, who leaves it's eggs in the sand uncared for, crying, 1.-The daughter of my people is become like the ostriches of the wilderness" Among the provi- sions piled on Solomon's bountiful table the Bible speaks of "fatted fowl" The Israelites in the desert got tired of mama and they had quails-quails for break fast, quails for dinner, quails for supper, and they died of quails. The Bible re- fers to the migratory habits of the birds and says, "The stork knoweth her ap- pointed time and the turtle and the crane :. l k1< x1 1R Ioyv but my people know not the judgments of the Lord"
 Would the prophet illustrate the fate of fraud, he points to g failure at inouba- tion and says, "As partridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches and not by right shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be fool" The par fridge, the most careless of all birds in choice of its place of nest, building it on the ground and often near freQuented road or in slight depression of ground, without reference to safety, and soon 8 hoof or scythe or 8 cart wheel ends all. So says the prophet, man who gathers under him dishonest dollars will hatch out of them no peace, no satisfaction, no happiness, no security.
 ' What vivid similitudel The quickest way to amass fortune is by iniquity, but the trouble is about keeping it. Ev- cry hour of every day some such par fridge is driven off the nest. Panics are only dutter of partridges. It Is too tedious work to become rich in the old fashioned way, and if a man can by one falsehood make as much as by ten years of hard labor, why not tell it? And If one counterfeit check will bring the dollars as easily as a genuine issue, why not make it? One years fraud will be equal to a half lifetime's sweat. Why not live solely by ones wits? A fortune thus built will be firm and everlasting. Will it? Hal build your house on volcano's crater; go to sleep on the bosom of an avalanche. The volcano will blaze, and the avalanche will thunder.
 There are estates which have been com ing together from age to age. Mary years ago that estate started in a hus- bands industry and wifes economy. It grew from generation to generation by good habits and high minded enterprise. Old fashioned industry was the mine from which that gold was dug, and God will keep the deeds of such an estate in his buckler. Forclose your mortgage, spring your snap judgments, plot with acutest intrigue against family proper ty like that and you cannot do it per manent damage. Better than warrantee deed and better than fire insurance is the defense which Gods own hand will give it.
 THE SILLY ONES MUST SUFFER.
 But here is man today as poor as Job after he was robbed by satan of everything but his boils, yet suddenly tomorrow he is a rich man. There Is no accounting for his sudden afluence. He has not yet failed often enough to be- come wealthy. No one pretends to &C., count for his princely wardrobe, or the chased silver, or the full curbed steeds that rear and neigh like Bucephalus in the grasp of his coachman. Did he come to sudden inheritancer No. Did he make fortune on purchase and salei No. Everybody asks where did that par fridge hatch. The devil suddenly threw him up, and the devil will suddenly let him come down. That hidden scheme God saw from the first conception of the plot. That partridge, swift disaster will shoot it down, and the higher it flies the harder 1t falls. The prophet saw, ss you and have often seen, the awful mistake of partridges.
 But from the top of Bible fir tree I hear the shrill cry of the stork. Job, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, speak of it. David cries out, "As for the stork, the fir tree Is her house." This large white Bible bird is supposed without alighting some times to wing it's way from the region of the Rhine to Africa. AS winter comes all the storks fly to warmer climes and