The Newtown bee., 1896-05-15
WARREN.
A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON SPRING AND
 OTHER MATTERS.

FEW OBSEfF ATIONS ON SPRING AND
 OTHER MATTERS.
 A week has wrought great change in Nature. She is taking on a kind of par disiacal aspect, if we have right to the exercise of our imaginations. One of the old inhabitants of this town, now gone, in the latter days of his life, used to say, as your correspondent is told, when ev- erything looked dead and dismal, as it did in winter, spring will never come. As if he had said, it is q seeming impossibil- ity for what we now see, to be developed from apparent stagnatiOn and death. If we had never seen spring it would in- de( be difficult to convince us that win ter had it wrapped up in it's bosom. So much for experience. We have tasted winter. We have fed upon it even to sur felt. We know it we'll. So, too, we have tasted spring and we say in the dead of winter, when the snow is deep, the ice is thick and hard and old borcas is piercing us with his blasts, ah yes, blow old north wind, pile up the snow into mountain heaps, if you will, you have your limits. You are not everlast- ing. Your days are numbered. The earth is a great traveller and she will put you to shame some day for this treat meut. You will be glad to haul in your horn and be 8 little more conciiatory. 50 it comes to pass. Spring is here, the harbinger of summer. Your cOrrespon- dent is glad the axis of our earth points to a star called the north or pole star and that the earth has an inclination of its axis to the plane of the ecliptic of g l , degrees, else there would be no charge of seasons. If the earth's axis were in the plane of the ccliptic, there would be two summers and two winters in the equatorial regions for each passage of the earth throughout it's orbit, The in clination of it's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, together with the unchangiug direction of the axis, are the causes of the four seasons of the temperate zones
 If however, any of our people of the Nutmeg State are not satisfied with the four seasons, it might be well to get a passage on the famous steamer Bermuda and be smuggled into Cuba, the western or eastern end. The weather there is getting tritie incorporate and 8 stay of a fortnight in one of the camps of the Cubans fighting for independence would probably be sufficient and the question would arise how can l be smugglcd out of Cuba and return to the land of steady habits; Your c0rrespon- dent is glad he is not Cuban, and that his independence has been fought for and secured in the days of Auld Lang Sync. There js but little gossip just now. People are to busy cleaning house and farming. 4 few are away visiting friends in Hartford and Bridgeport. The doctor has no more calls this way just now. l our correspondent might mention some names, but the better sort of people do not like to have the outside world know every step they take. They wish the press would not be so inquisitive, and really the writer thinks they have good sense concerning the matter. What? they say, does it amount to, to tell of John Smith who sprained his ankle in the effort to head of wOodchuck which his dog WAS not fleet enough to catch, or Mrs WhipOor- will who went to LitcbfeId to consult a milliner as the amount of trimming her hat ought to have, and whether the style Partisan or Roman or Italian. Dr Miss Boomer who found it difficult to find just the pointed russet slipper, that come within the 33 points of the compass of being sharp enough to bring the foot to represent the letter Y. THE BEE, however, with all it's gossip, has enough sensible things to give it large circulation and the writer suppose people as well as papers will continue to talk. The adage is "People will talk" Let them talk. Ignorant people talk about people, because there are none so ignOr- ant, but know something of mankind
 Intelligent people talk about things, in- stead of people. But there is a lesson for us all to learn who desre to be Use- ful and to have good neighbOrs. Feed on the virtues of people and not on their vices, Speak of their good qualities most have them. Those that feed on the vices of people degrade themselves in