Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-20
THE MAN WHO TALKS

we think we know ouc strong points
 norant aoa seem ef to xssk es sossy Our ig
 weak points are the ones wi1ici- need be known to us, as this is the sure
 way to improve or multiply our strong
 ones. What a weak point tt is for
 glory in a. verbal revelation of their
 experiences, or to find joy in reciting,
 for the entertainment of others. their
 dreams. 1t is not strange an ancient
 Maker should be mindful of him ?"
 Man shines more as O boaster than
 as booster, fact so patent that 1t
 is no longer of finding a place among
 self Is a reasoning rather than a req
 sonabIe creature: or as Byron describ-
 es him: Half dirt. half dea+y: afike
 unfit to sink or soar." Hannah More
 this blunder still you find. all think
 their little set mankind" But from
 long experience and upon general
 principles we find man is pretty
 good fellow. and it is pleasant to think
 the angels never cease to take an in-
 terest fin him.
 In the midst of the raw and sour
 October storm of the second week the
 English sparrows came to share the
 es and the clumsiness with which
 they moved about on the plants was
 amusing. At first I was confused by
 the variability of their plumage and
 contended that flock of fve-com-
 posed of a cock s1Hrrow and four
 which seemed to be marked like fe-
 males were a single family, the birds
 with buff markings on the shoulders
 and the dark secondaries and prim- aries of the wings strongly edged with
 buff where the other birds were gray
 with reddish brown markings were
 the newly garbed. or young birds. noticed that the black, mark upon the chin of the cock was abutted with white and extended like white, mar row collar to the nape of the neck.
 These sParroWs are very variable in the color Of their .plumage, and I re- naottIed white, showing so much white that it could be correctly cIassed as an albino. The purple finch. is often associated with sparrows in October and November; and is confusing to in experienced students of birds. The sparrows are better gleaners of seeds from the ground than from the seed leads of the sunf1owers.
 II. G. Wells points out that Hate is the weakness of the Irish and the Germans, when it can be nothing less than the weakness of every tribe on earth Malice and madness and mur- der are the children of Hate, and those who let it enter their hearts and give vent to dfabo1ica1 schemes and action can only come to fierce conflict and disaster. We may dislike what ever we please without malice. we may reasonably oppose whatever menaces our comfort cr peace of mind. II is up to us all to live right and to do right by one another. We should cherish whatever makes for good, and not allow ourselves by Hate to make unreasonable haste on the road to error. Those who give way to Hate become more brutal and heastly than those they hate. What the world needs is less of hate and more of heart. When the German representatives met the English rep resentatives at The Hague recently, the Germans thanked the English for Englishmen could only bow in ack- 1 The fruit of Hate com pelled them to be silent. There arc constant complaints of | insect pests and there is cause enough | tor them; but the way to overcome 1 any pest is to assail 1t with energy | not always with poison. Those who | grow cabbages or onions soon learn of the caterpillar and magEot which | ruin these crops, and most that can be done to overcome them must be | done by hand. In an English country | town the part season liberal money l prize was offered to the boy or girl who should catch the greatest number 3f cabbage butterflies, and the result l was that over 27.0e0 of these insects | were netted, the prize winner being a ooy who captured and destroyed 3,874 I Probably two-thirds of these butter lies were females and they would have aid 100000 eggs, which would have produced over million cabbage de- stroying caterpillars. This preven-
 i've activity provided good muscular exercise for the youngsters and must nave saved hundreds of tons of cab ,ages.- The size of the capture makes certain that in England alone this overcome these pests is to keep ever astingly at them. |
 The true and trusting Christian should be able to find within himself h" e or 5oy but dd it is oS not laraeses one. The eyes of Fret and l Worry will never find it. for they are
 olor-b1ind to everything which
 oothes or comforts: They would not leaven although the Divine teacher nAde nothing clearer than this truth. The heavenly can enjoy Divine peace
 anywhere. To be aware that we have or us beautifully through nature very day, and protects us with Di- inc principles which Satan and all ifs forces cannot overthrow, should
 WdhSn III us the same SplTlt ana 1alth | which has comforted every martyr in he severest trials. To be one in spirit
 nd power with God through loyalty l nd truth is to abide with Him and 0 have Him abide with us. The hidden reasures Of the mind are only reveal d to those who come to sense that he words Of the Savior are spirit and ruth as he declared. Tho whis1ey American topers drink osts a billion and a half of dollars ear and the number of people it
 nocks out of work is a million and . aH every day. If the time of the ncapacitated is worth a dollar a day, he loss is ten and a half millions a week. forty-two millions a month. and
 early half a Billion a year. Add to his three-fourths the cost of main aiming the jails. courts, police forces, ,orkhouses and oneafourth the cost : insane asylunns, and then figure out he per cent. 1t saves in taxes. Those .hO trace it's iniflriollS affects saN if