Norwich bulletin., 1917-09-08
THE MAN WHO TALKS

/ We talk about horses eating their heads off. but not enough of us are aware that thesTworld today is eating | or it's own head. The non producers are destroying. life and property and | lhandicapping industry, and eating up what the industrious are producing. Do you know Uncle Sarp's army of a million men requires 415,0o0~ pounds of beef, 1o.5oo bushels os potatoes, o50,00 leaves of bread. IT tons of but ter, a ton of onions, 50 tons of coffee, 125 tons of sugar and 60,000 cans of milk each day? Multiply these amounts
 by 30 and you will discover what the worlds armies (this does not include the mil ions of ammunition workers)
 are looking to producers for. And Uncle Sums boys require besides this
 two million pounds of beans, a million
 and half pounds Of rice. two million pickles a month, to say nothing of dried apples and dried peaches, jam,
 lard and syrup. which for the year call
 for 59 million more pounds of mate
 rials.. Just from this try to figure out
 what ona hundred million of non-pro-
 ducers are expecting of the agricultural
 nations. -.tt Bad Luck and Good Luck are the
 nicknames of Failure and Success There is always an clement of chance
 in all the walks of 1ife-a chance to do
 or die.- Some people venture to take
 
 ed them. and they are said to be un-
 lucky. Some do their work before they
 turn to pleasure, and they are said
 to be in tuck. The man who has a good
 grasp upon cause and effect entertains
 no bugaboos! The man who can meas
 ure neither his capability or judgment
 is often surprised at results and at
 tributes .hen1 to the hocuspocuses of
 the ancit nts. Good Luck and Bad Luck are the Mutt and Jeff of ignor- ance. The man who knows an oppor- tunity when he sees it is always having good luek ana. the man wno is blind and deaf to opportunity is always hay ing bad luck. The aman " ho believes in luck waits for things to happen, while the man who believes in himself, his own power, makes things happen!
 The wren. has ceased to sing. He. came with the oriola in apple blossom
 time, little late this year. and he ceased singing on. August 18th. Some people, l am aware, deny that the wren has song and regard his noise as a scream, but it is music to me-
 and like the ousel he sings whether the weather is fair or foul I haven't missed hearing a wren in the garden but one year in sixteen, and I miss always flies to greet me when I am in the garden, and he would sit near and sing for me if I was working or lettering there. He wouldn't recog- nize his picture in most of the bird books, but no book has ever over praised him. Why Jennie Wren is thought so much of. I do not know, for it is her mate who makes the presence of the family known, and the atmos phere of the garden ring with good cheer. Although there was quite a family in the wren-house last week, We have never seen a young one, but they seem to have flown.
 
 honor who do not practice common honesty The world has yet to learn how honor can hbe sustained where honesty is not. Honor's sacred tie is a square knot. and is not connected with base schemes or vulgar purposes. Coleridge says: Our own heart, and not other mems opinion. form our true honor The honor of some men looked at offen to< see if it is on straight. What is 'honor?" asked l Falstaff. and then answered, "a word," and in that word "air." but since Fall l stofrs day the fact that hot air is l back Of most honor has been discov- 1 oftener braggart's pretence than a | true mans claim. We have TO quar- l rel with the honor true men or wo- men cherish. The honor which excites disgust is that which is paraded by | men who are so stained with dishonor i that there is nothing white about l true-nothing depend | able.
 The people who are awake to the | fact that spending money is of as l much importance as earning money | ire the worlds thrifty people. The | people who are careful to get the | worth of their money are not mean, l ways been a dollar earned since the | beginning of lime. Some people never become aware they must cater to
 heir needs not to their wants. The title here below. but wants that lit le long" must have been thinking Of ,Iethuselah. Today man wants the | .arth and will go to any. length to get t-quick! The food which nourish- s is not always .th&a1ost costly or the reeds nor our wants which wreck Us; ut our notions and lack of knowl-
 dge. A half pound of bread and butter is more nourish:ng than pound of. sirIoin steak, and Loesn't cost one-fourth as much. but ew people realize it.. More die for tyle than perish for religion.
 There seem to have been more but critics in the, garden than usual this ear, as well more weeds, and it is many years since the tiger butterfly Papi1o Turnus) has appeared in uch numbers all over New England. The swallow tails, and the millxweed nd the meadow butterflies and the
 title shippers who bear Indian names,
 ave been plenty: and the hardy Van ssa tribe will appear as soon as the ruit is ripe enough to fall to the round. They are fond of pear juices nd are attracted by the pulp. Only ne willoV butterfly Wanessa Milber D. has appeared in the garden this eason and he was fascinated with ne datlia, for sev .ral hours. He ew to many. but this one he liked to eturn to and to daily upon. though a arefu1 examination of the flower bowed 10 reason mortal could dis l over fo- his preference. It is well to now the butterflies as we'll as the irds and flowers, for, knowledge of lem increases the p<asures of life.
 Everybody supports the war in Ger lany, in England and in France h in America is going to do ' 1eir bit. The amazing thing is how 1e npnnJe of pIand tatyo Cortr}- |,