The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-01-13

| ht Tor You 10 OsempnrH. Moan waited
a week, and next Sunday morning he let
the dow fly again for second explora-
ion and Sunday evening Il came back
with a leaf that had the sign Of just hay
ing been plucked from living fruit tree,
and tie bird reported the world would
do tolerably well for bird to live in,
but not yet sufficiently recovered for
human residence.
Noah waited another week, and next
Sunday morning he sent ont the dove on
tho third exploration, but 1t returned
not, for it found the world so attractive
now it did not want to be Gagged again,
and then the emigrants from the ante.
diluvian world landed. 1t was a bird
that told them when to take possession
of tie resuscitated planet So the human
race wero saved by birds wing, for. at
tempting to land too soon. they would
have perished
THE LESSON OF THE bows.
Aye, here comes 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 flock of pigeons
swooping to the openings of pigeon
coop, Ind he cries out, "Who ere these
that fly as doves to their windowsY'
David. with Saul after him, and flying
from cavern to cavern, compares himself
to desert partridge. a 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
fiies.
David, chased and dubbed and harried
of pursucrs, says. II am hunted as par
fridge on the mountains" Speaking of
his forlorn condition. he says. Il am like
pelican in the wilderness" Describing
his loneliness. he says. Il am a swallow
alone on the housetop.r Hezekiah. in
the emaciation of his sickness. compares
himself to n crane. thin and wasted Job
had SO much trouble he could not sleep
nights, and he describes his insomnia by
saying, II am u companion to OWLS
Isaiah compares the dcsolations of BAN
ished Israel to an owl and bittern and
tormorant among city's fhins.
jeremiah, describing the cruelty of par
ents toward children, compares them to
the ostrich. who leaves its eggs in the
sand uncared for, crying, The daughter
of my people is become like the ostriches
Of the wilderness" Among the provi-
sions piled on Solonon's bountiful table
the Bible speaks of "fatted fowl" The
Israelites in the desert got tired Of mamma
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 L;rds
and says. 1.-THE stork knoweth her ap-
pointed time and the turtle and the crane
and the swallow 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 at incuba-
ton and says, las partridge stitch 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 h slight depression of ground,
without reference to safety. and soon a
hoof or scythe or q 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. Ey-
cry hour Of every day some such par
fridge is driven off the nest. Panics are
only futter of cartridges. 1t is too
tedious work to become 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 it7 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 half lifetimes sweat. Why not
live solely by ones wits? A fortune thus
built will be firm and everlasting. Will
it? Ha! build your house on volcanoes
crater: go to sleep on the bosom Of an
avalanche The volcano will blaze. and
the avalanche will thunder.
There are estates which Rave been COM
Ing together from age to age NJ my
years ago that estate started in hus-
bands industry and wife's economy.
1t 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 rs
job after he was robbed by satan Of
everything but his boils, yet suddenly
,uInorrow ne Is a rlcn man. Inere is no
accounting for his sudden afnuence. He
aas 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 steet,s
that rear and neigh like Bucephalus in
the grasp of his coachman. Did he come
TO sudden inheritance? 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 lei
Tim come down. That hidden scheme
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