Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-04
THE MAN WHO TALKS

IL IS SuTprlSuS now some young people prosper who have the tact to win their way. They are not afraid
 to be obliging for fear they win be regarded as subservient. They con-
 stantly cultivate agreeable manners, they are ever ready to do little things to please. The atmosphere they cre- ate about them does not give rise to antagonisms. they are too willy to be
 making trouble for themselves. The
 world is a different world to them
 from what it is to those who disregard
 the little mannerfsms which cost noth-
 ing, but which are really a treasure
 and smooth life's ways When I see
 people cultivating every kind of dis
 gruntlement and not making life par
 ticularly agreeable for themselves, l
 wonder if they realize that they are
 exciting people to make things un-
 pleasant tor them. Our. world Is what
 we make it, and some of us make a
 sorry mess of it.
 Venus is only So,ooo,ooo miles dis
 tant from us now, and by it's bril-
 liancy is attracting attention to the
 west. We know some things about
 Venus that the ancients did not know.
 We know 1t Is not a wanderer in space
 but has the same journey to make
 every year and that sometimes it is
 within SS,000,O00 miles of the sun and
 60,000. 900 from us and vice versa: and
 as d sister planet we know that 1t has
 a year of PA days and IT hours, and
 that it's day is ,3T minutes shorter than ours, and although the ancients
 thought she had a moon we know her as a moonless planet; and we think there is life there just as there is here, not because we know it, but because we can find no reason why there should not be. Proctor did not hesi- tate to say that the evidence we have points very strongly to Venus as the abode of living creatures not unlike the inhabitants of earth" Since God has peopled this earth there is every req son to believe he has peopled his oth- CT worlds. His whole glory does not depend upon a speck like this.
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 The black blister beetle is getting to be the worst kind of a pest in the flower garden. Time was when this tribe of which there are several vari- cites in New England devoted them selves to the potato vines. and these black ones were sold to the apothe- carries as Spanish flies, by whom they are sold for raising blisters. It is some years now since they took to China I asters, and if not collected destroy these pretty flowers. Now I notice that they are taking to the dahlias ] where they quickly destroy the blos- 1 sons They have been hand picked 1 and thrown into dish of water in the l past, and that is a way to get rid of l them now if person is not prepared l to spray the flowers with modern in- | secticides. I have seen them in the | garden for number of years, but | this is the first season that I have l found them assailing the dahlias as | fast as they open.
 We all grow ragwsed for the benefit | Of those who cannot abide it-who be- cause of 1t have hay fever The thing l which surprises me is it's cornnnonness l in city yards and gardens. Ii Is as common as golden rod in the fields 1t is abundant. Sometimes think that | It should be prescribed by law, but then | think of the wild carrot and the | Canada thistle and other noxious plants | which have had no legal right to go | to seed on any mans acres for a ouar- | ter Of century, but as the law can not swing the scythe and man will | not, they flourish and spread with per- rect freedom. I make it point to de- stroy all ragweed on sight; and vet I | discovered colony in the shrubbery well on the way to seed spreading be- fore I discovered them. These weeds do not worry the man whose system 'Htg SdiiiiOL lHNdUet dl0 those WnO suner from them cannot afford to fool | with them. They are a nuisance from any standpoint, and, like the brook, promise to run on forever.
 lf the scientists are right when the world was young all life was in the sea and the fresh air creatures were not abroad because there was no fresh llr What a great day 1t must have lepn when no v-1,f Afa | of the water and found it pleasant to 'pend part Of the time on land. The conquest of earth and sky by differ sntlaung life cannot be imagined. The lrst flying reptile, and the first flying 1sh and the first flying squirrel must nave felt strange as pioneers. but in lme flight became natural to them all. Wan is the last creature to learn to ", and it takes a great spread of 'anvas and powerful machinery for i'm to do it. It is not strange that he young eagle is diffident when first alled upon to try his wings and test lls power. Proficiency in birddoni is 'orn of practice. Nothing God has made gets power without working for [. Science reveals that all life is ven- uresome and that its advance is due 0 new concepts. Back of it all is the inspiring, directing Mind. 
 knew woman once so neat that Ter cats had the repute of scratching lsltors when they entered the house ad they not wiped their feet upon the oormat. She wanted everybody to now what a doormat was for, but she i 'asnt the kind of a woman to make
 doornat of her husband. Neatness { mighty good thing, but the neat ; yrant is no improvement upon any ther kind of tyrant. Some women-I ome wiVes-make their fad for neat ess-for clean and wholesome and . inning apartments-a source of con- i' tant worriment to themselves and of ( annoyance to everyone else. Now this xtreme neatness which has to live in Il atmosphere of fuss and feathers { ever yet produced a happy home or A union. There is a very large ouDt whether heaven itself is dustless. $ do not believe St. Peter says: Leave ( our shoes and your overaIls outside 1 nd wash yourself in the barn if you re expecting to receive a pleasant well ome here!" We are all dusty millers, z nlyhow, and it is better to be ration lly nice than irrationally neat.
 And now we are gathering seeds. 5 nd leW ask themselves what a seed 1 . Well, no one is wise enough to ) sll what a seed is. It is the germ of ' le plant, .yor say. and it is. The acorn T locked up in its shell not ny the whole tree, but the stored lr( sUbish ts-.fI lraar 4