The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-03-04

swallow on nOuSeuOp hc1Sni"n, -
the emaciation of his sickness, COM
pares himself to crane, thin and
wasted. Job had so much trouble he
could not sleep nights, and he describes
his insomnia by saying: Il am COM
panion to owls" Isaiah compares the
desolations of banished Israel to an
owl ar. bittern and cormorant among
a city's ruins. jeremiah, describing
the cruelty of parents toward children,
compares them to the ostrich, who
leaves its eggs in the sand uncared for
crying: 1.-THE daughter OF my people
is become like the ostriches of the Will
derness." Among the provisions piled
on Solomon's bountiful table, the Bible |
speaks of 'sfatted fowl" The Israeli
ties III the odesert got tired OF
mama and they had quails-quaiis
for breakfast, quails for dinner.
quai,s for supper, and they died OF
quails. The Bible refers to the inigra-
tory habits of the birds, and says: "The
stock knoweth her appointed time and
the turtle and the crane and the swal-
low the time of their going, but my
people know not the judgments OF the
Lord" Would the prophet illustrate
the fate of fraud, he points to failure
of incubation and says: las par
fridge sitteth on eggs and hatchetn
them not, so he that getteth riches ana
not by right shall leave them in the
midst of his days, and at his end shall
be fool" The partridge, 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
a slight depression of ground, without
reference to safety, and soon a hoof or
a scythe or a cart wheel ends all. So
saws the prophet. man who gathers
under him dishonest dollars will hatch
| out of them no peace, no satisfaction,
no happiness, no security. What vivid
similitude. The quickest way to amass
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 fiutter of partidges. 1t 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
wears of hard labor. why not tell 1t?
and If one counterfeit check will bring
the dollars as easily genuine issue,
why not make it? One years fraud
will be equal to half lifetime's sweat.
Why not live solely by ones wits? A
| fortune thus built will be firm and
everlasting. Will it? Ha! build your
house on a volcanoes 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 coming together from age to
age. Many years ago that estate
started in a husbands industry and
wife's economy. 1t grew from genera.
ton 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 bucller.
Foreclose your mortgage, spring your
snap judgments, plot with acutest in
trigue against family property like
that, and you can not do it perma
, nent damage. Better than warranted
! deed, and better than fire insurance j.
the defense which Gods own hand vii
: give.it.
But here is man, to-day as poor a.
( Job, after he was robbed by Satan o
/ everything but his boils; yet, suddenly
: tomorrow he is rich man. There Il
, no accounting for his sudden affiuence
3 No one pretends to account for hi:
E princely wardrobe, or the chased silver
D or the full-curbed steeds that rear anS
S neigh like Bucephalus in the grasp o
: his coachman. Did he come to sud
: den inheritance? No. Did he make
: fortune on purchase and sale?. No
e Everybody asks where did that par
f fridge hatch? The devil suddenl.
threw him up and the devil will sud
n denly let him come down. That hid
f den scheme God saw from the first cor
c ception of the plot. That partridge
!, swift disaster will shoot it down, an
}. the higher it flies the harder it fall:
t The prophet saw, as you and l hav
o often seen, the awful mistake of par!
e ridges.
S But from the top of a Bible fir tree
:, hear the shrill cry of the stork. Joi
e Ezekiel, jeremiah speak of it. Davf
e cries out: "As for the stork, the fir tire
!, is her house" This large white Bibl
e bird is supposed without alightin
e sometimes to wing its way from tn
h region of the Rhine to Africa. AS vii
l. ter comes all the storks fly to warmt
r climes, and the last one of their nun
g Der that arrives at the spot to whic
n they migrate is killed by them. VIII;
lie havoc it would make in our species
lie those men were killed who are alwa,
'e behind. In oriental cities the stork
II domesticated and walks about on II
t, street, and will follow it's keeper.
5, the city of Ephesus saw long row
E. pillars, on the top of each pillar stors
ID nest. But the word ''stork" ordinari
lie means mercy and affection, from Il
lie fact that this bird was distinguish
es for its great love to its parents.
lie never forsalses them, and even aft
Or they become feeble protects and pr
c. vides for them. In migrating the o
In storks lean their necks on Il
young storks. and when the o
w ones give out the young on
as carry them on their back. e.
~ forbid that dumb stork should ha
w more heart than we. Blessed is til
,e- table at which an old father al