Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-22
THE MAN WHO TALKS

THE MAN WHO TALKS
 Of recent evening had the pleas Ire of listening to a singular per 'ormance by a cat-bird, vaudeviilien among. birds The sun was low in the vest, and the other birds were singing heir evening songs when a shriH was heard from neighbor- ing tree. At, first I thought it was hilarious oriole, then it sounded more like piping red breasted grosbeak; and while was wondering what the singer could be in his garrulous way he repeated SBeholink. bobolink! So unlike the bobolink itself that the ini- tator's identity was disclosed. This full life by mocking everything from the domestic cat in the yard to the bobolink in the. fields. As time keeper c. c. Abbot, of Delaware, dis covered that this bird said good night" at s ?. m. daily; but w. H. Gibson placed the eat-bird among the nocturnal nainstrels which disturb the night and amaze those who are afield with the owl and accustomed to the whip poor will The cat bird be- cause of his eccentricities is an en- joyable neighbor.
 This is going to be what we call "a short summer" and yet it may have more food producing days than the summer we designate as "a long sum- mer." Summers we know no not vary in this latitude but few days in length. The variation in the budding of the elm, the hlossoming of the apple trees or the arrival of the oriole or the wren fairly represent the vari- tions of this producing season of na- ttre. But summer is not long or short" to us because of it's time from frost to frost, but because of our feel ings, or the length of time we wear thin clothing. We've had rather dry April and May, and an unusually wet and cool June. We have had a lower average temperature than usual during the spring months, and we have awakened in mid-June to realize that we are gliding toward September and black frost as though 8 German sub marine was chasing us, and we were bent upon esca ping with our lives. Ii the mosquitoes are more numerous than usual the heat is not SO intense We never saw the sunsetting at o'clock p. m. in this latitude before days never seemed so long singly; but we have that nervous sensitiveness which assures us the summer is going to be short.
 : According to an intelligent writer upon agriculture England is suffering from 'latifundia." It is not a disease but,a habit; and doubtless all nations as well as individuals have bad habits from which they suffer. The writer puts it in this way: While we suffer from "latifundia," a large DOT ton of land in Germany is divided UT into small holdings" England need! are evanec distribution of the land and one. outcome of the war will bs the breaking up of big estates and the creation of workmen's houses witt comfortable gardens. This write points out there is no reason why Ger many should feed 33 and Asone third per cent. more people upon~100 acre. of land than England, or other coun tries do, which is true. England today is breaking up millions of acres O. grass lands to increase it's crops ant it is entering upon a scheme to built '500.000 homes for returning soldier with gardens. The Gardener is tn useful man. and even large estate cannot do without him. The land hog should give way to land cultivators. l An English clergyman says: "U
 to the age of IS every person shou1
 be primarily subject of education and not factor in industry" Ther
 isn't a Captain of Industry in thi
 world who does not know this is | pipe dream, or that being a factor i industry even from infancy in itself
 an education. If education was con fined wholly to books this would not 1 likely to make men more useful c
 more skillful. What is Education Mrs. Sigourney says: We speak (
 educating our children. Do we kno' l.that our children also educate us
 It was Aleott who told us "observatio
 more than books, experience rathe than persons, are the prime educa tors" Life is the great educator; an the example of parents upon the i'm pressional mind of the child gives the impulse which lasts, and whic prompted Beecher to say: 'Educatio is only good culture: It changes tt Isize, but not the sort" To kee everybody out of industry for the fir! IS years of life would be to happe
 half the business on earth, and great increase the drones. The world neec
 more efficient workers-better traine
 men and wemen-and cleaner heart i A few sensitive souls are telling | ! we must not hate the Germans, bl
 the world is in no mood today ever
 hug them. But we couldn't hate tf II Germans if we desirei to for there
 nothing heathly about hating, Whic
 is defined as madness of the heart The fact is we cannot hate any or
 without punishing ourselves. TT penalty for hate is the sinking
 the hater morally lower than tho,
 hated. We can set our face again the evil and brutal conduct of ma and make our disrespect for it pel manent in order to preserve our oW
 integrity. It was More who said: "
 wanted to punish an enemy it wou be- by fastening on him the trouble
 constantly hating somebody" Ha1 ever ahides in a disagreeable atrno. phere, and it radiates discomfort
 naturally as radium radiates hes
 No sane person ever contemplates el tdrtaining hatred continuously. ! one could do so without becomil [ pruta1ized. Vengeance is min
 saith the Lord" and I will repay
 We better heed this warning again
 making ourselves miserable, and l Him do it.
 sl Did you ever think when you a
 yearning for a good preacher, tn
 there is nothing the preachers in t pulpits yearn for more than go