Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-08
THE MAN WHO TALKS

The old fashioned man who would
rather go broke than to break his word
is SO scarce that he is being sadly
missed To be prompt used to be con-
sidered a part of a mans religion,
and to not keep a promise was to UNI
do ones religion and ones self at the
same time. Men do not seem to think
their word is sacred any more; and
the feeblest excuse is expected to be
accepted, no matter how much a per-
son has been disconnected. In prom
ises it is always a good plan to be as
regular as the best clock or many
a man it is said His word is as good
as his bond,' whose word is real
ly good for nothing. You see this
popular quotation is made meaning
less by conduct which was once
thought to dishonor a. man. Any old
time is neither religious or military !;
but it is very much in vogue these
days, as all who do business with men
know. 1t is to be hoped that the time
will return when mans word and a
mans honor will again be syneny-
mous-the governors of his life.
Somehow the month of roses this
year was more month of roses than
usual with me. There were fewer
green flies and a greater abundance of
bloom on the whole. | have seen Gen.
Jacquieminot do better: but | have
never known Madame Planter to do
anything but her very best, SO she was
as white as snow. That old climbing
rose, the Prairie Belle, mas maintain
ed its reputation as a fine bloomer;
and the polyantha roses, the Crimson
Rambler and the Dorothy Perkins.
with their mass of crimson and of pink
blooms, always do well either as
climbing or pillar roses, never looked
more gorgeous The Japanese Rugo-
sas We're never so full of bloom with
me before; and their fragrance per-
meated the nefghborhood. A hedge
with a. thousand blooms open at once
is a fine sight; and as it has no in
sect enemies the foliage always looks
deep green and waxy. There were
originally but three of these, rose,
crimson and white; but now there are
crimson. The monthly scented
roses of the garden are always beau
tiful As sparse and fragrant bloom
ers they may be regarded as the aris-
tocrats of Rosedon
When a man takes several eye
openers he becomes very laxative;
but he doesn't talk like a philosopher.
Talk with tangle-foot in it is usual
~ tangle talk. Old John Barleycorn
never talked with any sense; and those
who make themselves spokesman for
way of making them feel that they
are interesting when they are simply
silly. 1t was this kind of a perform
ance which led to the inquiry:
why will a man put an enemy into
his mouth to steal away his brains?''
for a few eye-openers Away rob a man
of sense. 1t was Franklin who dis
cerr ed that Some of tie domestic
evils of drunkenness are houses with
out windows, gardens without fences,
fields without tillage, barns without
roofs, children without clothing, prin-
ciples, morals or manners. There
can be no exceptions taken to this
picture since it is the object lesson
which dissoluteness itself furnishes,
and has furnished in all nations where
the vice of intoxication has become
common With the self respecting
orderly man, all things are orderly.
A lordly mullen is in bloom in the
south border. the first to appear in the
garden in fifteen wears and the first
l have noticed in the neighborhood. 1t
is not easy to divide how the seed
found it's way to a cultivated garden
since there are none very near, and
the preferred home of the mullen
seems tc be good .gravelly soil In
fact. the mullen seems to grow where
other things Will not. l discovered
this stray plant in the fall of 1910;
low flowers are now opening about
five and a half feet from the ground.
Standing by itself it has a. stateliness
not noticeable when it is discovered in
groups in gravelly spots in the
country l am getting better acquaint-
ed with the mullen because of this
stray specimen and I do not wonder
that in foreign lands. to which it is
not a native, that it finds favor in the
gardens as border plant under the
popular name of the Velvet
plant 1t is silvery, gray-green
| ard as an herb has been much in
quest because of it's thick velvety leaf
| for appliance with concoctions to al
| lay pain. In herbology the mullen is
| a plant of commendabIe medical quail
| tiles and high standing
Doenatism is we'll defined as pup
| pyism, that has got its growth
| The three things which make it per-
| feet are training, conviction and con-
| ceit. 1t gives a person the bulldog
| style. 1t is as well-illustrated il
| the man who knows it ALL as any
where; but this is not It's best form
| for such a man is seldom scholar
| In religion and politics it gathers
| about itself considerable dignity, bu
! it never conceals itself and never at
tempts to play the role of a dog o.
| another color. The dogmatic cease tt
/ progress because DelnS sure lHey art
right they do not feel the need o.
I further searching; and even at tina
| they would be tclerable comrades were
| they not so Indifferent of those whs
| dare to differ in opinion from them
| Watts says "A dogmatica1 spirit in
! clines man to be oeDSoriouS of hi:
| neighhors. Every one of his opinion:
appears to him written as with sun
! beams, and he grows angry that hi:
| neighbors do not see it in the sam.
| light In other words he feels he i:
| everlastingly right, and all who dis
l agree with him are everlaStingl L.
| wrong. 1t is well the dogmatists ar
| fading away.
suppose that the first taut
| rope-wafker, as well as the first div,
! ingbeH operator beneath the waite
| We're Spiders This Is what the hool