THE POTTER JOURNAL
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COUDERSPORT, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1873.
For the Journal.
White Lilies.
A liiy-lmd upon the lake
Half oped at morning lay:
" A traveler passing plucked and bore
The treasure rare away.
A l>nd u|H>n the sea of life
As pure as lilies be—
What wonder that an angel bore
Our treasure up to T':ee!
EMMA H. BEFBK.
[FVoin the Christian Union.]
Our Winter Birds.
K •• Wli.'it, no winter birds!" I ex
claimed in reply to my little friend,
Molly Stubbing, who had just come
in and declared to me, '*sho should
not try walking again, though the
j > doctor should order it twenty times,
[; i when there was nothing to see, no
J i grass, no flowers, no birds."
"Oh," said I, "you are mistaken,
j Sit down here by my window, while
i I dress myself for a walk, and I will
j soon show you your error.'' 1 had
| a little artifice, I must own, in seat
'; ing her by my delightful window,
for tiie blistered tree that sent its
branches out to within arm's length
of the window pane, was to mv cer
tain knowledge, fad of a flock of the
lesser redpoll, arrived not less than
half an hour previous.
So I said, "Molly, I want you to
observe this tree that 1 take such
pride iu; though stripped of knwH,
'how beautitid is tbe network of
branches, especially the upper ones,
still hung with tassel, like seed ves
sels." I had hardly gone from the
window when I heard a lively "excla
mation and a call, "Come here, cous
in May, and tell me quickly what
this darling little bit of a bird is
called." "How does he look'" said
I; not that I• id not know perfectly
! well, but to entice her to observe
! minutely.
I "Something like a sparrow," she
i replied; "but there is a beautiful
j crimson spot, like blood, on his head,
[and all his feathers look as if it were
[ really blood that had trickled down
and got smeared over them. Why,
| you dear little things, prettier than
I* V A
| any summer bird, one, two, five.
, eight, nine. 1 can count nine. What
magic have yqu, cousin May, that
brings them here, and do you often
have such rare visitants?"
"Oh, no," said I, "this is the first
time 1 have seen this bird this win
ter; they only come when it is ex
! tremely cold at the north, and then
in large flecks. Wilson says that
lnindrec s of than are offered for sale
. in the Philadelphia markets at this
season. They remain with us till
April, t (.ii retire to the far north for
incubation. And as for magic, all
the magic I use is to keep my eyes
open to see when they do come. But
if we are ready let us go up the
street, towards the open field at the
! end."
"I can hardly tear myself away
from this pretty sight," said she.
:"But, perhaps, you will show me
something better."
The village of Flushing—thanks
to its nurserymen—is plentifully
adorned with evergreens, growing
i thickly in great fields, or standing
by twos and threes, sometimes singh .
lin front of houses. As we passed ]
' close bv some of these, I heard the
. faintest little chirp, and I called on
Molly to listen. Surely, yes, two
or three birds of some kind were
there, and, as we strove to penetrate
the thick gloom of the boughs, we
saw the tree had several occupants.
"Stand perfectly still, Molly," said
I, "and we shall soou know what
; feathered creature is housed here." '
j Presently out hopped a wee, olive
green bird, smaller than a wren,
turned his bright eye on us, but, as
we did not lift a finger or wink an
| eyelid, with great unconcern he
! hopped from bough to bough. Pres
i ently another appeared on the outer
part of an upper branch. We stood
a long while watching the busy crea- j
• tures as they sought their food, con
sisting of the larvae of insects, -utter
ing, from time to time, their faint
chirps, indicative of perfect content
ment.
'That,'said I to Molly, as we walked
i on, 'is the golden-crowned wren,
called a wren, though he does not
belong at all to the wren family.
There is on the crown of the head an
. j orange-red spot like gold, margined
with lemon-yellow and black. This
can only be seen by parting the
feathers. In times of great excite
ment they show this themselves, add
ing greatly to their beauty. In the
j spring and fall they feed about the
i extremities of the branches, some
times fluttering in the air in front of
them, seizing small flies, and at such
times often expose the golden feath
ers of the head, opening and shutting
them with great adriotness. At home
i °
I have a stuffed specimen, which you
i shall take in your own hands.'
■: 'I would,' said she, 'that I could
. any way attain your knowledge. I
' i have a friend—a naturalist—who
[ thinks those young ladies very defi
' cient who don't know the birds that
; frequent the fields and orchards. He
1 says it is a shame to them to be so
j aufait in matters of dress and toilet,
and not be able to call by name the
: songsters that add so much to the
charm of our country life.
As Molly spoke, I perceived a
troubled look flitting across her love
lv face, and her eyes were directed
I far away across the marshes.
'You can learn,'said I, softlv.
[ 'Learn,' she replied; 'how can I
learn? M hen I see a bird and run to
find its name by comparing my men
tal note of it with the description, I
get so confused I can hardly tell one
from another. lam in despair about
! it.'
!
'I will help you,' I replied. 'lt is
necessary that you should"
birds close by at first, lie able to
handle them and compare them with
stuffed specimens, or colored engrav
: ings. Some of the first birds we
[ learned about were obtained from
the New York markets. At this
: time of year various birds are offered
for sale.'
I NY e were now passing a neglected [
field where seedy weeds in manv
places cropped out above the snow. 1
, 'Hush,'said Molly. 'What are these?' i
A whirling flight of birds, like leaves :
blown by the wind and settling down, j
; fell now on all the straggling plants.'
[ It is a flock of Arctic snow bunt
; ings, driven by stress of weather to
[ find food in this milder climate.;
1 hese birds have their breeding- j
places far to the north. Greenland
iis full of them. Their nesis, made !
| of grass and feathers, lined with the
j down of the Arctic fox. are placed
in the fissures of the rocks. When
the extreme cold drives them south,
i they seem to overflow the lands in '
; great abundance. They have a soft
whistling call-note which they repeat
iat intervals while they are flving. I
have often been first made aware of'
their presence by hearing this note
dropping down from the sky. Pretty j
creatures of white and black, inter
mixed with a reddish brown! Could
you examine them closer you would
find no two alike.'
Molly looked a little and exclaimed
•I thought I knew the snow bird.
, 1 iie bird I have always called by that
name is of a dark mouse color.'
'Yes,' I replied. 'That is the com- j
moii snow-bird, you must mind the
distinction. This is the Arctic snow
j bunting, and it does not come so ;
regulaily as the other. We have
Lad tiiis bird alive caged for awhile,
i \\ e gathered sprays of seedy weeds ;
for its food, which it accepted, but .
for several days we could not per
suade it to drink. Some one at last
j suggested that we should present
frozen granulated scow to it. Of j
this it partook at once plentifully.!
( How forcibly does this peculiarity!
i tell of those frozen countries where \
it is its habituuc to live. In its as- •'
peet it is the gentlest of birds. It is !
difficult to convey an idea of the
[dove-like innocence expressed in its [
looks. I can tell you away of draw-!
ing birds near the house where you
can observe them. YYe have prac
tised throwing hominy under our
dining-room windows. We have had
the white-throated sparrow, the snow -
bird, the fox-colored sparrow and
song sparrow, all feeding there, !
scratching with their tiny feet in the
snow, like miniature hens. This you
cannot do, of course, if any cats are <
about.'
'I feel encouraged,' she replied, i
•and 1 will begin in good earnest my :
studies. Brother YY'ill shall go to
the markets to-morrow for me. and <
w hen I come down next week to
celebrate your birthday, I shall report
progress. I have seen so much to
day, lam delighted. I think 1 s all
recognize all these birds again, the
Arctic snow bunting, the gold n
crowned wren, the lesser red poll.
I he next d\ ednesday brought rav
Molly as bright and sparkling as us
ual. indeed I thought her cheek had
a wholesomer glow, and her eve a
clearer light. She brought a basket
011 her arm which she set aside care
j fully. \\ hen 1 asked her what sue
, cess had attended her plan, she re
plied, with great animation:
'Perfect success. Brother Will, in
! the most obliging way, searched the
j arkets for me, and brought home a
;dozen snow buntings, no. not a doz
|en. eleven snow buntings and a bird
I did not know and in another lot.
i 1
; two other birds. Well, cousin May.
here was a dilemma, for Br id aret was
so cross Irom not being able to get
out her washing this week, that I dared
not take them to the kitchen. 1 had
determined Aunt Susan should have
them cooked for her. Her appetite
is so small, I think the leg of a fly
would satisfy it, so what could 1 do
hut pick oil" all their pretty feathers
myself, and roast them on the oyster
gridiron over the dining room fire; it
would have done your heart good to
see aunt eat them. She declared 1
was a most astonishing cook, and she
I ate every one of the eleven.'
'Pretty well, for you,' 1 replied,
delighted. 'And,' nju.i she,'l have
7' a charming des
: cription of that bird. He says, quo
ting from English ornithologists,
c *> '
They seem to make the countries
within the Arctic circle their summer
residence, Tom whence they overflow
the more southern countries in amaz
ing multitudes, at the setting-in of
winter, in the frigid zone. In the
winter of 1778-9, they came in such
multitudes to Birsa, one of the Ork
ney Islands, as to cover the whole
barony, yet, of all tne numbers, hard
ly two agreed in color. Lapland,
and perhaps Iceland, furnishes the
north of Britain with the swarms
that frequent these parts during win
ter as low as the Cheviot Hills.
Their resting places, the Ferce Isles,
Shetland and the Orkneys. The
Highlands of Scotland in particular
abound with them. Their flights are
immense, and they mingle so closely
together in the form of a ball that
the fowlers make great havoc among
them. In Lapland and Sweden, they
are called bad weather birds; in Lab
rador the white bird ; their plumage
in the depth of winter is changed to
nearly white.''
'That is a charming description,;
Molly.'
'Oh, yes! and to think that all
those Arctic regions, which I had
hitherto supposed to be the very ac-i
me of frozen desolation, are brimful j
of life; birds pairing and raisiiur!
their young, in art abundance we can '
hardly imagine, and no doubt tilling
the air with tuneful songs. Truly,
the Lord is wiser than we iii our ig-1
norance had thought.'
° i
'But what have you in your basket. I
Molly?'
•I call one a woodpecker.' she re-1
plied, 'one a crossbill, and the third,
that was among the snow buntings, I j
cannot even guess at.'
' Vou are right as to the first two,
but the other, even I do not recog
nize; but we will get out. our big :
book, ' DeKay," and search till we!
find it.'
Past the hawks and the owls, the j
woodpeckers aud the sparrows, we
searched till at last we found the!
picture that corresponded so exactly j
that we could not doubt we were
right. Yes, it was the shore or;
horned lark, which Wilson calls the j
most beautiful of its family.
'But stav. Molly, while I go to
superintend my Bridget's operations;;
vou may look over and condense!
for me the accounts of this bird.'
4 Very well,' said she, and while 1
was bus} beating eggs and using fla
voring extracts, and looking after
the spicing and seasoning of things
generally, that the dinner might not j
disgrace the occasion, she was look
ing over the authorities. When I
fame back she was very full of what
she had read.
* Wilson,' said she, 'says this bird
jomeein great flock*.t-bat fly in s scnt-
j tered manner, and cover open eom
t monsand sandy plains, feeding on the
>- seeds of weeds and larva? of insects;
1 their call-note,' he says, 'is like that
c of the sky-lark, heard l.igh in the
- air. and he is told that its song re
sembles that bird's.'
v 4 Audubon,'says he, 'found their
'- nests in Labrador; a tall, gray tufty
I moss grows all over the granite rock
a that forms the foundation of that
t country, and on those tufts the shore
■- lark builds in great numbers; their
•- color being hardly distinguishable
■- from the moss. Samuels says he has
had their eggs sent him from Wis
n • cousin and Illinois. But let us ex
e amine his colors to identify him
a again. Here is the faint yellow of
1 the chin and throat ; the piokish
1 j brown of the back, streaked with
. dusky; the black crescentic patch
. below the eye: the broad fan-shaped
s | patch of black on the breast; the
t j slightly crested head—and here arc
1 • the loug black feathers above the eye,
1: which, when erected, have the ap
e 1 pearance of horns, whence the name.
? It must be a beautiful ci> ature when
y | seen in the open fields.
.> j * But let us return to the cross-bill.
> This is a finely-colored specimen, a
r; mixture of carmine and Vermillion,
t j dulled by a intermixture of other
>' colors. Its bill is the most wonder-
I ful thing about it. The upper and
e j lower mandible are curved and cross
i
I each other, looking deformed and
, i useless. This bird inhabits the im
■ mense pine forests northward, and
- feeds on the seeds of the pine and
-'hemlock; and.it> bjlj is an instru
, j tuent marvelously well adapted bv
'; its Creator to open the bracts of the
r cone and take thence the seeds. But
now for the woodpecker.'
'He is in rather a dilapidated con
f dition,' said Molly, 'but not so that
.-1 we cannot learn his character. Some
i things are very marked about him,
- his great size, his crimson crest and
? the pure white on the under side of
• the wing feathers. What kind of a
. woodpecker do you call him?'
'This,'said I,'is the plicated wood
; pecker, the largest of the- kind that
■; frequents our woods, and a fine one
, ; to introduce to you the whole class.
,; Observe his strong bill, his barbed
! tongue and the hard sharp-pointed
■j tail feathers which lie sets hard against j
j the trunks ol trees to assist him in j
climbing. There is a still larger spe
; cics which Wilson found iu North
Carolina, and he tells h most charm- j
I hig story of his capture of one aud
its efforts to escape, which I would
: read to you had I time.'
The day slipped away most delight
fully while we still searched our books j
j and studied our birds. Meanwhile'
the dinner was done to a turn, and
when my husband returned from the :
city we had our little feast, and we
: made a merry time of it.
As I parted with Molly at the door
' I could not help remarking'that tier
mysterious friend would be well
pleased with her progress.' She gave j
me an arch look, then a sigh, as she
j replied, 'lt will be a long while before
he hears of it—he is in (Jermar y.'
When I returned to the diniug
| room my husband's first remark was,
! 'How Molly has brightened up: it re
ally does one good to talk with so in
telligent a girl.'
Lifctc n!
Do you wish to do something to
: ward making yotir home happy ? Do
j you desire that your brothers and
j sisters should be glad to have you
j with them, and that you should al-
I awys be a welcome companion to your
' parentsoryourchildren? Doyouwant
! to have your society coveted every
, where and to feel, the while, that you
; are doing good as well as gi \ ing pleas
jure? Would you like to help peo
| pie to tuiuk well and to have them
; srve their best thoughts for you?
Would it please you to get all the
good you can out of the people you
know ?
If so, Iwarn to listen. ,
But first learu wuat listening is;
for it is not merely the exercise <>f the
sense of hearing. The stupidest of
us all can keep ears open and mouth
shut. To listen properly means to
make other people talk properly.
That is a social definition, if it is
not a Websterian one. The good
listener is a cause of talking in oth
ers. and by a proper exercise of this
S 1.75 A YEAR
■ valuable and too scaiw giftßtflkes tin
: diffident say what they think and the
verbose think what they say. I\>r
: the greatest talkers are careful when
• they find they have a good listener.
- They know that they may not often
be so fortunate, and they talk tb jr
• best. The adept at listening may
' sometimes hear more prosing than
: he likes; but if he be skillful, this
: will not often happen. When it is
■ impossible to get anything interest ing
• or useful out of a man, he need be
' listened to no longer. Every one of
• sense will agree to that. Hut it is
■ astonishing how many good things
• some very unpromising persons will
t say if they be properly and conscieu
f tieuslv listened to.
i j To be sure, it is very hard for some
i persons to listen. They have a gift
i for talking, and they like to exercise
hit. But these are the very persons
■ who should do a great deal of list
■ euing. They know what a luxury it
. is to talk, and they should give their
- families and friends a chance to learn
. the .art. Besides, like farmers, they
i will often find much advantage in a
rotation of crops. A season of listen
. ing is often a most excellent prepar-
L ative for a season of talk.—lnd'pen
,! dent.
! A County without a Dram-Shop.
' A correspondent of the Evening
: Post writes this from Caldwell, <)hio:
' ! "I have two items that may inter
est friends of the temperance reform.
This (Noble) county c'. h" .*'
i Z ° f Tram-ship.
, I lie enforcement of the Adair Liquor
Law closed all our whiskey shops two
years ago. The criminal law against
; the sale of liquors was feariesslv en
-1 forced, and multitudes of sellers were
fined and imprisoned. Simultaneous
ly wives of drunkards brought suits
/
for thousands of dollars against the
dram-sellers, and gained immense
I sums. Tims did we eradicate the
\ liquor nuisance. No man dare open
a 'rum hole 1 in our county. He
would l>e fined, imprisoned, and
; mulcted in thousands of dollars datii
jage beside. Our jail has been abso
lutely tenantless for two years, our
criminal courts ha\e not had a crim
inal of any sort to prosecute, and
pauperism ahd insanity* arc almost
unknown. Our new railroad—the
-Marietta and Pittsburg.finished from
Marietta, Ohio, to Cambridge, Ohio
a distance of fifty-nine miles, run
j ning through twenty* rowc*—l, ;l s rn>f
j a single dram-shop along its entire
I line. The officers yvill not permit
[any such nuisance, and the re>nlt is
; that in two years not a life has been
lost onthat road from any accident"
\\ II.VT would you advise a poor sin
ner to do who knows he has a re
bellious, wicked, ungrateful, uu<
feeling heart, but docs not feel it,
and can neither believe, love, nor
obey ?
Do the best you can. fixl is not
"an austere man." No fine can be
in the sad state of mind described by
our correspondent who has a right
notion of God. But the remedy is
not in thinking about God. nor in
trying to feel. Find some Christian
work and do it, help somebody, re
lieve somebody—exercise yourself in
some way. Let your feelings take
cave of themselves. It is too much
looking in that has done the mischief.
"Look upward and not downwards,
outward and not inward, forward and
not backward, and lend a hand,"—>
Christian Union.
Joumalieka in Turkeys
A despach from Constantinople
1 says that the Levant Herald has been
suspended for two months on account
of publishing satirical articles con
cerning the insufficent arrangements
for supplying water to the inhabitants
of that city. We arc- in doubt as to
the peculiar views entertained by the
Turkish government in rcspeet to
water, but clearly- the old maxim that
I "cleanliness is next to godliness' 1
j does not obtain at the court of the
Sultan. It is possible that for state
reasons water is not thought to be a
wholesome drink, although perhaps
it is uncourteous to assume that these
reasons arc chiefly jiersonal. Wha -
ever may be the reason, the fact still
remains that it is not protitabla to be
known as an advocate of an abun
dant supply of water in the city <>f
Constantinople.
We happen to know, however,
that there is great need of more wa
ter in that city. A friend who was
recently there say* that the bote's
are filthy lteyond account, and that
the private and business parts of the
town, so far as he could learn, were
in as bad a condition.