Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-21
THE MAN WHO TALKS

What the world is suffering for to- day ss for that plain, old ia ashioned honesty which was always found in company with dignity and honor; and which attuned the heart and minds of men to see that love, not might, should reign. In those days half the world was not doing bnsiness upon false pre- tence, or by combinations wrestling money from the people upon hold-up principles. Swapping dimes for dol lars and doing the unwary was no part of their scheme of life They were endued with the idea that in all ex- changes there should be an equivalent --an element of fair play. Their motto was: Fair exchange is no robbery. It was later the business worlds new Golden Rule: Do him quick or he'll do you, was first put out as a joke and then accepted as a fitting maxim for prevailing practices. sNo one seems to be sensitive to the baseness of this sentiment now. for the truth of it is too apparent. This is the age of the promoter, an individual who was then known as the sharper. AS quality changes in the human heart, how the impaired mind tempers titles and soft ems down sobriquetS-we become used to things and practices which our fla thers scorned Where are the signs we are worthy sons of worthy sires?
 An aCQudtntanCe recently exniDlE9Q to us fungus growth from a beech tree known as The Medusa. white, spongy, sea -foamy looking mass which appeared no more like the head of a Gorgon, or the heartless daughter of PhorcuS, with her snaky hair, than toadsiool; but it may have had some qualities like the MeduSae of the seas, Populary known along the shore as sunfish, and which are phosphorescent at night, which this parasite of the beech tree may be, since many varie- ties of the fungi have weird light of their owE which frightens timid peo- pie at night. This was the thirty ! fifth specimen of the Medusa which had been taken from this one tree. The Bears Head is a name for an other variety of this same parasitic race. These wonderful, ,rootless, stem less. flowerless- plants, which thrive on trees and rocks as well as on the greensWard, have puzzled the students of nature for all time; and many of them are little understood now. Their oddity of form. orderly arrangement, and quick growth in many instances are simply surprising; and some of them have the colors of a sunset and look as poisonous as a checkered ad- der.
 We have had a good hunters moon, the moon of Diana, the queen of the woods and the queen of the night; and, for aught we know, she may be the woman in the moon, or the one who puts nloonshiue in the human mind. Luna is Diana's alias when she is in the sky and it was from the evil influence of the moon shining up- on a sleeper that the first luna-tic was so classified Perhaps you do not think there is any moonShine in the human mind; but the moon causes the ebb and flow of the tides, and if frxrH.l fI1a aaet hao people say about the hopelessly i'll: He'll go out with the ebb tide" Per- haps you have never heard that some things must never be planted on the wane of the moon and that some things should never be harvested while the moon is rising to fullness. Some men do things according to the moon. just as some others do things according to the clock, or to the sea son And, who knows, if the moon has power to control the tides, but it has power to effect the flow of sap and really make the difference the so- called superstitious class think 1t does? :?
 What are we sure of?
 like the common, everyday po- fitness which savors of naturalness, and that marks the lives of some of our alien citizens. or course, we sometimes smile over it; burt there $ no cause to doubt it's sincerity. It is not garnished with smile; and there is no style about it. It would not know 8 high hand shaizs if it should get one; but the real feeling is under it. It is something that sweetens up the air of everyday living, and in vites attention and awakens kindli ness. There are petite persons so top notchy in their own esteem, and ig norant persons who are not alive to their own interests. who have no use for this everyday lubricant, although it does not cost cent. and often ac- complishes wonders. I somehow like every kind of polteness under the sun; but I cannot see why there should be a single reason for some kinds of it to exist. This common politeness is said to be the child of good sense, and is credited with smoothing wrinkles and doing all kinds of good things, hence it is as sure as anything can be of living forever. It is to be borne in
 mind that politeness often succeeds where speech fails.
 Since there has been much said about home in one department of The Bulletin it may be of interest to read what kind of a home an Englishman