The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29

The butterflies are moving, It IS two
weeks earlier than they moved last year,
ana that would botollen an early frost X
tho insects know anything.
Providence may acquaint them with tho
times and seasons for their own preSerVa-
ton. for not a sparrow falls to the ground
without His notice. Every day these ca
nary-colCrcd BUTTERFLIES skip along through
the grove not IN fOCks nor in pairs. but
sinely and at their leisure, perhaps one
in.a minute on an average. and would
never attract any notice r. attention was
not called to It. They are al alike-the
same matt re size with wings about one
and Cne-half inches of triangular shape
and they move southwark IN graceful leis-
urely flight and never stop to rest or to
suck a flower. A friend wrote me from
Miledgevile last year that he supposed
they wintered in south Georgia or Florida
but my opinion is that they not only WIN
ter but die. for they never come back
Probably they lay their eggs before they
leave home. and so we have a successive
hight every year.
The instinct Of birds and insects fs
science to be studied. Neither the birds
nor the butterflies have any set days tor
their migration. Some instinct tells them
when to start and guides them in their
flight Even the little spider weaVes his
web In the night. knowing there will be no
rain In the morning. The Lord answered
Job out of the whirlwind and made him
ashamed Of his lack of knowledge. who
causeth 1t to rain upon the earth and the
bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Who can stay the bottles Of heaven when
the dust eroWeth into hardness and the
clods ceave fast together? VINO pr0EldctA
for the raven his food when his young ones
cry unto God? Doth the hawk fly by thy
wisdom and the eagle mount up at thy
COmmand"'
Speaking Of insects tell you. my breth-
rem there are some hideOuS kinds in TINS
subluuary world. / have long been friendly
with the tomato pant because it was in
sect proof but this rainy season has de-
veloped some horrible worms upon the
stems Big. long, bull-headod green worms
with a sting in the tail can be seen all
about among the vines These green
worms are covered with white pustul"s
that are about onc-cighth CT an inch long
and stand up thick and stiff and seem
to be eggs or embryo or germs or some
thing that Is deVilish. These white robes
are 50 visible Chat they warn you where
the worms are. The worm itself 1t not un-
like a tobacco worm, but has a diamond
back and division cords to match have
seen pack saddles on green corn stalks
that were horrible but beautiful, and this
provokes me to remark that most all the
devils ContriVanceS are beautiful Just
What such insects are made fer passeth
comprehension. So many harmless ana
lovely things abuuLd in nature that We are
sure our Creator loves us or He would rot
have made the birds TO sing. the iioWer9
TO bloom the stars to shine and the air
to be filled with music. We have use 10"
the horse ard the cow. the dog and tbs
cat. and for sheep and fowls, aud even
FOR honey bees. but what possible benefit
can these hideous insects be to
anybody. 1t looks as though the good God
made all the good and beautiful things and
then the devil got Il privilege and put in his
handiwork in the shape of venemous ser
penis. wild beasts. tarantulas and finished
up with showers of mosquitoes. CODE says
that all these piSen and stingin' things We're
made to keep poor folks humble and make
EN- enjoy their religion. That rich folks
don't know nothin' about bull nettles and
psen oak and pack saddles in fodder pull
In time and these devils ridin' horses that