The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-08

Strained to bell, 'gainst monday glare
 You count the streaks and rings"

glare
 You count the streaks and rings"
 The helplessneSs of storm-driven mi
 gratory birds, their great multitudes
 and the ease with which they are taken
 after a long flight across the sea, are
 clearly seen in the following account:
 "A strong wind brought quails from the
 and let them fall by the camp, about
 d days journey on this side, and about
 a days journey on the other side, and
 the people stood up all that day and
 all the night and all the next day and
 gathered the quails" Perhaps the hav-
 oc wrought among the flocks of wild
 pigeons in the earlier days of this coun-
 try comes the nearest to this account, | but quails migrate in great numbers, and there are accounts of their being
 taken in nets by the 100000 in a day, and 160000 being netted on the little isl- and Capri, near Naples, in a single sea- | son.
 1 The unrest of the turtle dove in cap- | tivity and the eager swiftness of it's flight to it's early home among the rocky cliffs when set free, gives meaning to the sad plaint of David, weary with the
 
 of those whom he wished to trust And I said, Oh that I had wings like dove!
 Then would I fly away and be ft rest. To, then would I wander far off.
 I would lodge in the wilderness,
 I would hasten me to a shelter
 From the stormy wind an tempest"
 The swiftness with which .rumor brings to a King any whisper against him-so many hope to secure favor by telling it-it is well compared to the speed of birds flight. The picture of the sower going forth from the village to the remote fields to SOW the grain, and of the birds following his steps to gather up the seed that might fall up- on the narrow paths which bordered or crossed the fields is intensely Oriental and out-of-doorsy. How often even in New England have we seen the robin following closely in the furrow after the blow to gather up the grubs and worms that might be uncovered.
 Birds have" haunts, lodging-places, | resting places, and not 'nests," as in our version, presents just such picture of some sequestered grove or tree-clump | some sheltered hillside of brookside, | where birds may gather and rest undis- | turbed. The bird haunts where great | numbers gather to spend the night for | weeks at a time, as the swallows do ! every Fall in the willows on an island | in the Messalonskee at Waterville, come | nearer to the true thought than the word nests" comes. More of our birds have the habit of gathering for rest in fiocks than might at first be thought Crows, jays, sparrows, juncoes, snow flakes, and many others do this to a | greater or less degree. It Is also true that birds gather in favorable places for nesting and breeding. Familiar ex- amples of this habit are the chimney swifts, eave-swallows, sand-martins, heronries-either of the great blue heron, or of the black-erowned night heron. as in Browns woods at Galmouth Fore side. All honor to the man who keeps far away from such a place the death- dealing sportsman.
 The Mosaic law strictly forbade the killing of bird that was setting upon eggs or young, enforcing the prohibition by the weighty sanction that it may be we'll with thee, that thou mayest pro- | s sacred the killing of the mother bird and allowing the young to perish in the nest is a cruelty deserving misfortune and shortness of days. Bird protec- ion is one of the purposes of our so- ,iety. When the psalmist exclaims in ''Our soul is escaped as a bird ,ut of the snare of the fowler; the snare S broken and we are escaped" he shows that his sympathies are with the birds II such case, as well as with those yho have shared with him in some yreat deliverance.
 It was part of the simple life of the Tews and of their direct contact with common things that cock kcrowing hould be used to designate a certain period of the day.
 The care of the mother bird lowering Ter young under her wings is used re- to set forth Gods care for lis people, But most touchngly the gure comes in in the lament over Jeru- alem in view of it's subsequent destruc- ion: "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how ften would have gathered thy child en together, even as a hen gathered er chickens under her wings, and ye would not"
 Wings, signify swiftness strength. : may not this be the meaning the wings which are ascrbed to ngels? May not a similar symbolism ttach even to the wings of the cherub- n which overshadowed the mercy seat the Most Holy Place of the temple?-