The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-09


Noah waited another week and the next Sun
day morning he sent out the dove on the
third exploration, but it returned not. for IL
found the world so attractive now It did
not want TO be Gagged again, and then the
smigrants from the ante-diluvian world
landed. It was bird that told them " hen
TO take possession of the resuscltated planet.
So the human race was saved by a birds
wing; for attempting TO land too soon they
would have persisted.
Aye, here come a whole flock Of doves
rock-doves, ring-doves, stock-doves-and
they make Isaiah think OF great revival
and great aWakeuings when souls fly for
shelter like flock of pigeons swoOplng, 20
the opening Of a pigeon coop aud
he cries out: who are these that fly as
doves to their windowsn' David. with Saul
after him, and flying from cavern TO
cavern, compares himself t. q desert par
fridge, a bird which especially 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 pursusrs. says: II
am hunted as a partridge on the mount
aIns." Speaking of his forlorn condition,
he says: az am like pelican of the wilder
ness" Describing his loneliness, he says Il
am swallow alone on housetop" Hezekiah
in the cancellation Of his sickness compares
himself TO a crane, thin and wasted. Job
had SO much trouble be could not sleep
saying: Il am a companion to owls"
Isaiah compares the desolations of banished
Isl ael to an owl and bittern and cormorant
among a city's ruins. jeremiah describing
the cruelty of parents toward cbildlen,
compares them to the ostrich, who leaves
its eggs in the sand uucared for, crying:
The daughter Of my people is become like
the ostriches OF the wilderness Among
the provisions piled on SolOmon's bountiful
table, the Bible speaks of "fatted fowl"
The Israelites IN the desert got tired Of
snsnna and they bad Guails-quaIls for
breakfast ouAils for dinner. quails for sup
per, and they died Of quails. The Bible
refers TO the migratory habits Of the birds
end says: ''rhe stork knoweth her
appointed time and the turtle and the
crane aud the swallow the time of their
going, but my people know not the judg~
ment of the Lord" Would the prophet
tllustrste the fate Of fraud. he points to a
failure at incubation and says las a par
fridge sitteth on eggs and natcheth 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 q fool" The
partridge is the most careless of all birds in
choice of its place of nest, building it on the
ground and often near q trequented road
or in slight depression of ground without
reference to safety, aud soon a hoof or a
ecythe or 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 happine' ., no Sc
curity. What vivid similitudel The quick
est way TO smass a fortune is by iniQuity,
but the trouble Is about keeping it. Every
hour OF every day some such partridge Is
driven off the nest. Panics are only a flutter
OF partridges. 1t is too tedious work TO be-
come rich in the old-fashioned way, and If
man can by one falsehood make as much
as by ten years OF hard labor. why not tell
iti and IL one counterfeit check will bring
the dollars as easily as genuine issue, why
mot make it, One years fraud will be equal
TO a half a lifetimes sweat. Why not live
eolcly by ones wits? A fortune thus built
will be firm and everlasting. viii it, Ha!
build your house on a volcanoes crater; go
60 sleep on the bosom of an avalanche. The
volcano will blaze and the avalanche will
thunder. There are estates which have been
coming together from age TO age. Many
years ago that estate started in q husbands
industry and wifes economy. IL grew
from generation to generation by good
habits aud hlgh-minded enterprise. Old
fashioned industry was the mine from
which that gold was dug, and God viii
keep the deeds of such an estate in his
buckler. Foreclose your mortgage, spring
your snap judgments. plot with acutest in
trigue against family property like that
and you cannot do IL a permanent damage.
Better than warranty deed and better than
fire insurance is the defense which Coils
own hand will give it.
But here is a man, to-day as poor as job
after he was robbed by satan Of everything
but his boils; yet. suddenly, tomorrow be
IL a rich man. There is no accounting for
his sudden affiuence. lie has not yet failed
often enough to become wealthy. No one
pretends to account for his prlncely ward
robe, or the chased silver, or the full
ourbed steeds that rear and neigh like Blu
eephalus In the grasp Of his coschman.
Did he come 60 sudden inherit
sncei No. Did he make fortune Oh
purchase and sales No. L erybody asks
where did that partridge hatchl 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 il falls The prophet saw, as
you and / have often seen, the awful mis-
take OF partridges.
But from the top OF Bible fir tree hear
the shrill cry OF the stork. Job, Ezekiel,
Jeremiah speak Of it. David cries out: LAS
for the stork, the fir tree is her house" THE
large white Bible bird is supposed without
alighting sometimes 20 wing its way from
the region OF the Rhine TO Africa. AS winter
comes all the storks fly to warmer chimes and
the last one OF their number that arrives at
the spot TO which they migrate is killed by
them. What havoc il would make in our
species II those men were killed who are al
In domesticated and walks about on the
street, and will follow its keeper In the
city OF Ephesus l saw a long row Of pillars,
on the stock of each pillar a stork's nest
But the word "stork" ordinarily means
mercy and affection, from the fact that
this bird was distinguished for its great love
60 its parents. IL never forsakes them, and
even after they become feeble, protects and
provides for them. In migrating the old
ssorks lean their necks on the young storks
and, when the old ones give out. the young
ones carry them on their back. God
forbid that dumb stork should
have more heart than we. Blessed
is that table at which an old father aud
mother sit. Blessed that altar at
which an old father and mother kueeI
What IL Is 70 have q mother they know best
who who have loss her. God only knows
the agonies she suffered for us, the time,
she wept over our cradle and the anxious
1ighs her bosom heaved as we lay upon its
the sick nights when she watched us long
after everyone was tired out but God and
herself. Her life blood beats in our heart
and her image lives in our face. That man
is graceless as a cannibal who ill-treats his
parents, and he who begrudges them daily
bread and clothes them but shebbily, may
tod have patience with him; / cannot. 1