Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-26
THE LAND WE LIVE IN.
The Part Scots Have Played in Ameri-
 can History.

The toast "The Land We Live In" was responded to by Senator John H. Barnes, who was next introduced by Postmaster McDougall. Starting in a humorous vein. Senator Barnes soon had his audience convulsed. Then set ting down to more serious vein Senator Barnes spoke only in praise of the Scots and the part they have taken in the making of American history Senator Barnes spoke in part as fol- lows:
 It is indeed a pleasure to be with you once again. l think it was Timo- thy Tftcomb who once said that if there be one attribute of the Deity which we should respect more than another it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul who sits at the head of the universe is not. never was, and never will be in a hurry. The whole realm of the universe has been wrought out in the august consciousness of in- finite leisure and omnipotent bliss. Surely you must have some of that attribute of patience. inasmuch as you have seen fit to allow me to infiict my self upon you for this. the third, time.
 While this beautiful world upon which we live was built so many years ago that none but fools and professors of geology attempt to reckon it's age by the measurement of years-the life of man here is young, If twenty cen twentieth of such line would clasp the hand of Christ, and the fortieth of such line would tell us that his name was Adam. and that he did not know who his mother was.
 This is the same Adam, who, his tory tells us. ate the apple when off, fered him by his wife. I wish to tell you one thing. and that is not two, that if Adam had been a Scotchman, with the well known proclivities of the race, when Eve offered him the apple he would not have eaten 1t. but would have saved the apple, and O what a lot of trouble he would have saved uss
 The Land We Live In.
 The original home of the Scot is a little land. the northern part of an is- land in the North Sea, stretching all most to line with Greenland; land of bleak mountains and rugged hills; beautiful moors-fresh with the smell of the heather. and lovely with the fox-glove and radiant with the blue bell. Here on these bleak hills, in poverty and free from excess of lux ury was bred that strong and rugged character-appearing in the Scotch. It was that grand foundation that made ed in a great degree to build up this grand republic.
 No race pure in blood has ever amounted to anything in the human or lower animal kingdom The Briton sings: Saxon and Dane, Norman and Celt are we" To make a great race we must have a cross. The grandest of all flowers in this country is the Scotch-A1nerican. You brought with you to the Land We Live In. the two great traits of the Scotch; first. an in extinguishable love of liberty, both civil and religious. and second, an earnest desire for education.
 Your great and grand man-John Knox-placed ladder reaching from the hoveI to the college door. His ambition was that there should be a schoolhouse in every parish in Scotland there is today.
 The Land We Live In admires you for your philosophical way of taking things. They tell the story of the man who hated his dog. and one day in anger he threw a stone at the dog-l it missed the dog-but hit his mother in-law. Not such a bad shot after aIl," said the Scotchman.
 The land we live in admires you for your perseverance, and for your integ- rity. It is true that you never refuse anything that is offered you-if you | can get it free. In this respect you are