Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-16
THE MAN WHO TALKS

lion dollar thought. We have had bii- | lion dollar congresses for years. and now we have multi billion war, but | most of us have never grasped the 3 thousand millions make billion: | but John Bull says 1t takes a million | millions to do 1t. Can you imagine what O. difference in calculation this ! little difference of opinion makes In given us the billion dollar thought in fhis way: There haven't been billion minutes since the birth of Christ" This is Uncle Sam's billion, and it is SO. 1t will take ten years to count Uncle Sam's billion if you count 2 dollar eecond eight hours a day and rest Sundays. It would take work man at $500 a year 2.oo9,o00 years to earn 1t. With tax of $100 a year, it would take million workmen 20 years to pay a billion dollars. The billion dollar thought shows how royalty mortgages future generations.
 The sunsrner of 1915 win be remem- bered by dahlia faddists as the sum- mer dahlias began to bloom early and continued to flower late. No one ever saw more dahlias in flower In single season than have been in evidence the past three months. There can be no doubt the dalllia can be safely classed among the water-lovinG plants, for our extra wet season has demonstrated this. Those familiar with its culture know that the average waterfall here abouts is not more than half enough to meet it's requirements. It has been demonstrated that the dahlia that re- ceives a quart Of water at its roots at least three times week becomes most thrifty and supports the greatest num- fat-ground favorite, but like beans will flourish in rather lean soil. It is a highland bloomer as its habit of making It's best flowers in cool weather shows. How is it pronounced? As many different ways as growers can invent. The dictionary way. is da1-ya --the as having the sound first of . in arm, then of a in at.
 saw hunming bird on the dahlias Oct 3d, which I think is the latest date remember ever having seen one Flora's vanishing forces just as camp followers keep in the wake of an army
 but it makes no difference how these tiny beauties travel the two thousand and more miles to floral bowers which last till spring. They do not fly like
 to Panama in night, but like the rob- ins go from zone to zone in relays, and a month from now they will be in Maryland and at Christmas time in the Carolina mountains. and with the new year in Florida, and thousand miles further south. It is believed this migratory habit of the birds is the effect of the glacial period upon them, when a greater part of the earth was garbed in ice for 1000 years and there was nothing in what are now temper
 ate zones for them to feed upons
 Too many people in this world try | to play the role of petty tyrants. They are usually weak minded persons
 whom little feeling of consequence
 or a little authority make much. They | may be women bringing up a husband or a family of children, man who is | conscious he is head of the house. a | politician who has come to regard him. | self as ward boss, or a clergyman l who has an exaggerated idea of his dt- | vine rights. None of them ever seem to be aware that the greatest govern mental success has always been where
 there was the least manifestation oi authority. They believe in the force Il of fear and have no appreciation o1 the power of love. Petty tyranny Il common because true concepts of pow
 CT are uncommon. A little learning ma,
 be dangerous thing. but an error oi l opinion concerning authority is a req peril. It was Franklin who taught
 rebellion to tyrants is the will oi God"
 I This is the statement of a grea' German financier: Germany cannot bt defeated financially so long as hel | working energy is not affected, anC Germany.s working energy cannot b. affected" Let's, see about thts:i l ingmcn killed who could produce 5' cents per day per man. her working energy has been reduced $50O,00o ;
 day. or $1S0,000.000 year. and an
 other years war would make the re
 duction $360,000,000. or nearly a mil
 lion dollars a day. The major portion of her industry is to produce materia
 and munitions for the four million } men she has in the field, and what i produced for them is made to farthe
 the increase of the destruction of If . and property. Germany is not increas ing her wealth, but Is depicting he working energy and her wealth ever
 day. This is true of every other fight ing nation. When wealth Is being de lstroyed at the rate of millions each da, what a falsehood it Is to pretend tn financial resources cannot be exhaust ed. Several of these nations are well
 nigh bankrupt now.
 Hero ia a cute little piece of decep ton the late Ebert Hubbard put ou and it took: Emerson said that if
 man made a better mousetrap tha
 anybody else the world would make beaten path to his door, although h } lived in a wilderness" This has bee , quoted as Emersonian for years. an . is ever likely to be. for 1t is worthy (
 that great master. The fact that thi
 was never written by Emerson hs
 constantly been in prints but the trut has never been able to check the pel sistent affirmation of untruth attache t to a real gem of apparent gospel. . do any one thing better than it ws
 lever done before is to heccnc distir
 guished. and to be sought out by me n This was done by the Fra to demor : strate a possibility and 1t has bee referred to as a joke and also as a 2 example of wlckedness; but since tf ! sentiment is worthy of the writer
 whom it is attributed, and also u
 truth, there is no malice in the fal s pretense and no evil results from IS As misleading fiuke it seems to ha' g immortal life,
 We all need clearer conception
 the power of love. It is good to ket r the mind conscious of the fact tn . love heals the hurts resulting fro = discord and hate. It is a remedy v troubles nothing else can heal Ha Q and discord cannot maintain. a foo
 hold in its presence. Most of us thil
 of love as something. it is not, and ,HaA | -n rrv1kF O.