Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-11
THE MAN WHO TALKS

| Perhaps you have never thought that
successful liar must be a truthful
man. A man careless of speech can
| do but little harm with his mouth. II
| IS the appearance of truthfulness which
| gives the finest effect to a lie. Henry
Ward Beecher noted that even a liar
tells a hundred truths to one lie" for,
| said he, he has to, to make the lie
good for anything" The man who does
| not know the value of truth Is never
artful in the role of a prevaricator.
The common everyday liar is as harm
| less as the grass snake-he looks dan
gerous, but lacks venom. There are
\ too many of him--for he is neither
| useful nor ornamental. Some people
| lie when the truth would serve them
| better, and this is the sign of their
| ineff1ciency. The man who is known
| 10 be true, but who in reality is false,
can render the-most mastery service
| to his satanic majesty.
J suppose that the average man is
just as good husband as he knows
| how to be. AS the bread winner-the
mead or the house--too often he becomes
an exaggerated ego, as we'll as some
thing of tyrant. He overestimates
his own Importance and is apt to I'M
derestimate the value of other. mem
most dependent and helpless chick in
the whole bunch; and the calm. pa
tent and faithful wife is aware of it
He couldn't hold the family together
for thirty days without her, and often
sudden changes show that the genius
of the family did not center in him
that he was more of hindrance than
help. 1t is awful to think how in
Hated some really good intentioned
men can become over small successes.
They are never made aware of what
an admiring wife thinks. She lust
does her duty and thinks-and only
those who think out loud ever let the
world know what keen perceptions they
possess.
The fiocking spsrrows on the sun
flowers making feast upon the oily
and sustaining seeds tell that they
nave heard the call of milder cline
and are ready to obey it. This migra-
tory habit of the birds from the wild
goose to the tiny humming bird puzzles
the scientists. for they cannot divine
how it happened. The whole feathered
creation moves up and down upon the
globe for thousands Of miles almost as
regularly as the pendulum swings, but
no man can tell how they take note
Of time-how they navigate to habitats
hundreds and thousands of miles
apart. How the swallows of England
came to winter in Africa, or the hum
ming birds of New England to winter
in the latitude of Florida and Cuba.
Ii IS long flight and perilous jour-
ney. and many perish by the way. but
that seems to make no difference their
course being as regularly set as the
course OF the planets in the heavens
An English woman has been found
who makes pets of wasps and lets
them creep down her neck and go to
sleep there. 1t is not stated what
kind of wasps they be, but they are not
the American paper makers. for thew
DO not let people watch them with
impunity. | spent at intervals several
weeks in one season watching these
wasps build their paper nests. frame
the cells, lay in the paralyzed spiders
Tor food for their young, deposit their
eggs, and listen on the outside for the
first movement of the larva in the seal
ed cell. The wasps were interesting
70 me, and / was a menace and a
nuisance to them. Now and then a
bold warrior would dart for me with
venom in his eye and heat in his sting,
and the reason there were no results
was because the wasps are poor marks
men-they struck the partition close
by. but harmed only themselves. The
fAAtiCIl Cdfl wasp creeping on one neck
Is the hveliest and busiest creature i'm
aginanle-he can make a human dance
who has no inclination to under ordi-
nary circumstances. The English WASH
may know how to be good, but the
American wasp does not
The time may never come when
some one will not look up and speak
UP to let you know that "competition
c thn life of IL 1.;- "a
such respectable sound and appear
ance that 1t passes for the truth in the
best of society. 1 have repeated it a
great many times in my life, endorsed
as truth and unmindful Of the fact
that production is the life of trade and
competition the mother of almost ev-
cry seurvy trick known to business.
Too many Of these ready made truths
OF ours prove to be false pretences.
Competiti'n to often is the oppres-
sion Of the worthy producer, and 1t is
the defense of adulteration, cut rates
and every kind of meanness. The devil
himself seems to be under some of
these cute sayings of ours: and he
must wonder how so thin a veneering
Keeps him hid so well and so long. AS
a saying this is not worthy Of pres
ervation, but it is likely to be canned
for use centuries hence.
The greatest volume ever issued is
the book Of nature. The story of life
and death is locked up in the Plutonic
rocks, and 1T is this which has given
the lie to the old statement that the
Garden OF Eden was only 5000 years
away. The Chinese have kept a cal
endar OF the years almost that length
OF time. It was the book of nature
that told Hugh Miller that two great
geological periods had come to a close
before his tirne-the Cambrian repre-
senting the glimmering twilight of
being with its many legged worms.
and the Silurian with it's crustaceans
or evs,y sort and its flsn. He found
that the earth had become a vast sep
ulchre to a depth below the sea twice
the height of Ben Nevis" What a vol
ume that is with it's impressions of life
to a depth of miles. The book can
never be wholly interpreted, and per-
haps the primary class has made MANY
but there is a great deal still
to be learned from this inexhaustible
source
When we talk about weeds we never
include the morning glory, which is
one of the worst in some parts of the
world; but as weed and a cultivated
flower it's bright blooms command re-
spect. 1t is known here and in Eng
land as the bind weed, and in some
parts of this country it is a nuisance
In cultivated fields. The hedge-bind-
weed of England is a large white
morning glory; while the bind-weed of
the cultivated ground prefers to Irvine
on the corn, and it produces a fra
grant. pink -colored bloom; and then
the beach. bind-weed is a dwarf rose
colored flower which sits low and
alone in its beauty upon the sea-sands