Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-09-17

pigeon and lr.os9 1 3ecinlse
| it has more oxT5ansC feati.-
ers on which to be i1.., TIE kea,
that wars on the sheep, fastening itself
Oh the back Of the live sheep and not
relaxing, bu5 pecking its way through
the wool and the flesh until the sheep is
dead and the beak reaches the fat
around the kidneys, for which this bird
has special appetite--a habit learned
| probably by peck:ng Of the butchered
| sheep around the door Of the shepherd S
hut; the storm petrol, like 9 fake OF
the midnighb; the crested pcrgiun; the
paradise duck, its name taken from the
fact that its richness of color suggests
the Edenic-and birds with all wealth
Of feather, and curiosity Ct beak, and
eccentricity Of habit, and defense Of
claw, and audacity Of flight and bear
ing all colOrs-the white running into
crimson, like snow melting into the
fire; the blue as If in some higher flight
it had brushed against the heavens, or
yellow as if it had nested among cow
slips and buttercups, or spotted and
fringed and ribboned and aLazne until
there ere no more fountains OF radiance
into which they can possibly dip their
wings Oh, for some scientific gunner
to do for New Zealand what Audubon
did for America! But, what [ never
knew before, the native birds are dying
out before the foreign birds that have
been introduced, and the native flowers
are dying out before the foreign 10wers.
Although now New Zealand is SO
abundant in all styles Of quadru pods, it
had not, when discovered, D single quad
ruped except the Eat, and a foreign rat
having been introduced the aboriginal
rat has nearly disappeared. The English
grass brought here las killed the native
grass The birds Of America, Europe
end asia imported here have killed
the birds Of New Zealand. All the earth
has been ransacked and all the botanical
and archaeological and ornithological
and geological worlds have been called
upon so make up the present and the
future Of New Zealand.
Yea, como to this wonderland, !" al
who want to see enterprise and advance
meEt. Daily newspapers, with scholar
y men in editorial chairs and report CTS
capable Of pumping interviews from
the most raticant and cautious and make
q sphinx speak. Two thousand miles OF
railroad. Over /, eco schools, with com
pulsory education, building up intolli-
genco fer the present. and aFording no
opportunity Tor Ignorance in the next
century. Baths thermal and chemical,
miles long and capable Of putting an
end to rheumatisns and sciaticas and
invaEdisas that have de1led the min
eraI hydropathics Of the continents.
Lake Taupo, 50 deep that no plunnet has
ever touched bottom and occupying the
hollow Of an extinct volcano, as bright
child might fall to sleep IN the bed pre-
viOusly occupied by a grim giant. Yea,
come to New Zealand, the naturalists,
the artists and tla students OF men and
things, and come quickly, for nothing
romans here as it originally was e1-
capt the mountains, and even the lnoEl-
tains, IS on the night Of June 8, 1856,
when the walls of '.tho terraces" fell
down s. the blowing of the trumpet5 of
terror. proved tso-aeeIycs no longer TO
be the everlasting hills. .
r. DE WIT TAI1IACE.