The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-01-20

swallow on a housetop." Hezekiah, IN
the emaciation of his sickness, COM
pares 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 COM
panion to owls" Isaiah compares the
desolations of banished Israel to an
owl and bittern and cormorant among
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: 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 ''fatted fowl" The Israel
ties in the Odesert got tired CT
mama and they had quails-quails
for breakfast, quails for dinner,
quails for supper, and they died of
quails. The Bible refers to the migra-
tory habits of the birds, and says: 1.-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 a failure
of incubation and says: GAS par
fridge 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 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
slight depression of ground, without
reference to safety, and soon hoof or
scythe or cart wheel ends all. So
says the prophet, a 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
years of hard labor, why not tell it?
and if one counterfeit check will bring
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 q 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 buckler
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 warrantee
deed, and better than fire insurance is
the defense which Gods own hand will
give it.
But here is man, to-day as poor as
Job, after he was robbed by Satan of
tomorrow he is rich man. There is
no accounting for his sudden affluence
No one pretends to account 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 a sud-
den inheritance? No Did he make a
fortune on purchase and sale?. No
Every body asks where did that par
fridge hatch? The devil suddenly
threw him up and the devil will sud
denly let him come down. That hid
den scheme God saw from the first con-
ception of the plot. That partridge,
swift disaster will shoot it down, and
the higher it flies the harder it falls
The prophet saw, as you and l have
often seen, the awful mistake of part
ridges.
But from the top of Bible fir tree l
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." This large white Bible
bird is supposed without alighting
sometimes to wing its way from the
region of the Rhine to Africa. AS win
chimes, and the last one of their num-
Der that arrives at the spot to which
they migrate is killed by them. What
havoc it would make in our species if
those men were killed who are always
behind. In oriental cities the stork is
domesticated and walks about on the
street, and will follow it's keeper. In
the city of Ephesus saw long row of
pillars, on the top of each pillar stork's
nest. But the word ''storlx" ordinarily
means mercy and affection, from the
fact that this bird was distinguished
for its great love to its parents. 1t
they become feeble protects and pro-
vides for them. In migrating the old
storks lean their necks on the
young storlzs. 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 and
mother sit. Blessed that altar at
which an old father and mother kneeL.
What it is to have a mother they know
best who have lost her. God only
knows the agony she suffered for us,
the times she wept over our cradle and
the anxious signs her bosom heaved
as we lay upon it, the sick nights
when she watched us long after every
one was tired out but God and herself.
Her life blood beats on our heart and
her image lives in our face. That man
is graceless as a cannibal who ill-treats