Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-12

been plucked from u living fruit
tree, and the bird reported |
the world would do tolerably well for
a bird to live in, but not yet sufficient
ly recovered for human residence,
Noah waited another week, and next !
Sunday morning he sent out the dove
on the third exploration, but II re-
turned not for IL found the world SO
attractive now 1t did not want to be
Gagged again, and then the cmigrants
from the antedeluviau world landed,
II was bird that told them when To
take possession of the rcsuscitated
planet. So the human race We're saved
by birds wing: for attempting to
land too soon they would have per
ished.
Aye, here comes whole flock of
doves-rock-doves, ring-dovcs, stock
doves--and they make Isaiah think OF
great rovivals and great awalScnings
when souls ilv for shelter like u flock
of pigeons swooping TO the openings
of u pigeon coop, and he cries out;
"Who are these that fly MS doves to
their windows?" David, with Saul
after him, and hying from cavern to
cavern, compares himself TO desert
partridge, u bird which especially
haunts rocky places, and boysand hum
tcrs to this day takes after IL with
sticks, for the partridge runs
rather than flies, David, chased
and dubbed and hanied of
pursuers, says: II am hunted as n
partridge on the mountains Speaking
of his forlorn condition, he says III
am like pelican OF the wilderness.
Describing his loneliness, he says, II
am u swallow alone on u housctop."
iie2elliuh, in the cmaciation of his
sickness, compares himself To u crane,
thin and wasted. Job had SO much
trouble he could not sleep nights, and
| he describes his insomnia by saying,
IL am u companion to owls" Isaiah
| compares the desolation of banishcd
Israel to an owl aud bittern and cor
| morant among u city's ruins.
parents toward children, compares
them to the ostrich, who leaves
! it's eggs In the sand uncarcd
for, crying: THE daughter OF my
| people Is become like the ostrlchos of
the wilderness" Among the provis-
ions piled on Solomon's bountiful
table, the Bible speaks Of 'fattcd
fowl" The lsraelites In the desert
got tired of mamma and they had quails
--qIails for breakfast, quails for din
ncr quails for supper, and they died
of quails. The Bible refers To the
migratory habits of the birds, and
says: 'rho storll lSnowcth her APP
pointed time and the turtle and the
crane and 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
a failure at incubation and says; AS
II partridge stitch on eggs and
hatchcth 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 bc fool. The part
ridge, the most careless OF all birds in
choice of its place Of nest, building IL
on the ground and often near - fire.
quented road, or in slight depression
of grouad, without reference To safety,
and soon a hoof or a scythc 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 salts
faction, no happiness no security.
What vivid similitude! Tho 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 flutter of cartridges. II is
toe tedious work 10 become rich In the
old fashioned way, and II u man can
by one falschood make as much rs by
ten years OF hard labor, why not tell
it, and IL one counterfeit check will
bring the dollars as easily as a genuine
issue, why not make it? One years
fraud will be equal to n half a life
times sweat. Why not live solely by
ones wits? A fortune thus built will
be firm and everlasting. VIII II?
la! build your house on vol
cano'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 coming together from age
to age. Many years ago that estate
started in husbands industry and n
wifc's economy 1t grew from genera.
tion to generation by good habits and
high minded enterprise, Old-fashioncd
industry was the mine from which
that gold was dug, and God will keep
the deeds OF such an estate in his buck
Ter. Forcclose your mortgage, spring
your snap judgments,p plot with acutcsi
intrigue against family property like
that, and you cannot do II II permanent,
, damage. Better than warranted
deed, and better than fire insurance il
the defense which Gods 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 he Is rich man
There is no accounting for his sudden
afiiuence. He has not yet failed Otter
enough to become wealthy. No ont
prctends to account for his prnccly
wardrobe, or the chased silver, or tho
: full-curbcd steeds that rear and ncigl
, like Bucephalus in the grasp of hi:
coachman. Did he come to a sudden in
hcritance? No. Did he make FORUM,
on purchase and sale? No. Everybody
asks where did that partridge hatch;
The devil suddenly threw him up and
the devil viii suddenly let him come
down. That hidden scheme God saw
from the first conception of the plot
That partridge, swift disaster will
shoot IL down, and the higher il flies
the harder il falls. The prophet saw
as you and | have often seen, tho
: awful mistake of cartridges.
, But from the top of u Bible fir tree
, hear the shrill cry of the stork. job
, Ezekiel. Jeremiah speak Of IL. David
cries out: "As for the storll, the fin
/ tree is her house" This large white
Bible bird is supposed without alight.
, ing sometimes TO wing its way from
, the region of the Rhine TO Africa As
winter comes all the storlSs fly to
warmer climcs, and the last one OF
their number that arrives at the spot
to which they migrate is killed by
| them. What havoc it would make il
| our species if those men were killed
: who are always behind. In oriental
cities, the stork is domcsticated and
3 | walks about ON the street, and will
: follow its keeper. In the city Of
| Ephesus ! saw long row of pillars, on
the top of each pillar stork's nest
, But the word "stork" ordinarily means
: mercy and affection, from the fact thai
: this bird was distinguished for It's
t | great love to its parents. IL never
D forsakes them, and even after they be
| come feeble, protects and provides for
D them. In migrating, the old stork'
4 lean their neclSs on the young storks
4 and when the old ones give out, the
young ones carry them on their back
> | Cd forbid tbnt n dumb stprlg shOull