Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-12
THE MAN WHO TALKS

llVt SEC tIldL every demand or rlSnt- eousness is required of those who have violated every law of God and man. The office of hatred is to damn the natter; and the office of jus- tice is to awaken and redeem those who have erred. The Germans open ly decry sympathy as weakness, but would gladly accept it as a means of escaping the punishment for their ruthless abuse of power-aecept it as worthy of us, but as being totally un- worthy of them. We do not want to play the part. and there is no reason on earth why we should. We have no desire to rob them of their pos sessions. but it, is the duty of the na- tiors she has forced into war to see that Germany pays for her eriYes to the last farthing-her sins we shall have to leave to God!
 While most people realize that in temperance is a good foundation for poverty, they never come to a con- sciousness of the truth thar poverty is the cause of much intemperance. Every human being has to have stiHl- ulants, and if he doesn't get them in tea, or coffee, or sugar or meats or he will get them through drink. The condition of the world today is teaching us that prolific source of misery and disease is mal- nutrition, or the nonsustaining ra- tfon of food. II is a fact that con- sumption has been quadrupled in all the countries in which war las inter- ferred with the rations of the people. Those who take advantage of the poor and force them to a nutritious diet are guilty of sins they will find tbey must eventually answer for. There is much more wiekedness than most people become cognlzant of, and there seems to be no law to reach the basest practices of man. Every man should be entitled to a fair share of the results of his own produe- tive power
 Strange, isn't 1t? You must have noticsd that the men and women we hold in least esteem in times o1 peace are our most valiant and in dustrious oitisens in time of war When we are guilty of making sucf poor estimates of one another hoN can we hope to see matters go straigh instead of crooked There are no sta l ble standards for manhood: and nevel can be so long as looks and Lretence; hare esteemed of more account tha! | character The we'll l-groomed mar l way in human esteem where hon esty and worth fall down, No ont i has ever heard it said society is thi | foundation of the state for that credi
 belongs to the hone-the unit of re 1 snonsibility and power everywhere The common people come nearest t 1 being HGod's people than any othe class: and they always have proved | be uncommon people when the ban ncr of worth and justice needs de fenders
 If you gre a dog keeper it is prob
 able that there is a great deal you d not know about a dog. No one els on earth but Darwin has discovere'
 that dogs utter 45 distinct sounds or nearly twice >as many as form tn human alphabet. The dogs world
 one of sounds and scents. and it wa
 Ilafcadio Hearn who found the de thinks compares, remembers and rea sons by smells and by them estimate character and upon them Hounds iudg
 ment. He found that the dogs inter
 pretation of smells left no doubt
 comprehends them in way of whi2
 human being could have no ides
 The dog can hear a thousand sound which never reach the human ca
 vet man is still so distrustful of tn ) dog that the shepherds in the far eas
 keep up the old practice of cutting 0
 Cne ear of the faithful shepherd dog so they may better hear the approac
 of wolves: and yet the pet dog in th
 family can hear the soft tread of
 dog on the opposite side of the stree
 in the middle of the night, or a hors will hear an approaching automobi
 long before his driver does. We al , dull observers of the creatures Go
 entrusts to our care.
 The starIines are still assembling l the great tree every day, and seem . find it a satisfactory meeting plac
 They jump out of the tree by score , flutter in the air abe z it and rs aiight. While 1 know lnere are huT
 dreds of starlings in this tree, a stror
 pair of glasses do not bring to view score, and these seem to be the guar mount. One might suppose from Il movements of the birds above the trt that they were playing, as I have fl many days. but since they act as mut
 like swallows as starlings can, I hay . 1 finally come to the conclusion thu they are doing as swallows do, feedir upon the midges which are bred in u 5 wet foliage of the tree, and which
 the warmer hours of the day must f r in myriads above it. These starlin, ' are certainly very agile upon the win f can balance in the air like a fl, catcher, and return to the point fro which they started. These starlings England establish rookeries and a ] semble at night in communities nun
 bering one hundred and fifty thousan
 and as a nuisance disturb some neigl
 borhoods.
 Taking time for meditation is a go, @ habit, but we should guard again
 picturing in our minds any of the CO S ditions in life which have annoyed l . The way to mar life is to lend ont
 mind to rehearsal of the wrongs al n disappointments one has, or for the e tertainment of fears not well groun = ed. Life goes smooth with none of l
 and never allowayeurself to think wh It hard time you have had in life, # it is probable your next door neighh l. who seems so cheery and is doing
 much to brighten the lives of othe s has experienced more trials and al 4 appointments than you ever did. '' isn't the things which happen to us | 'f how we permit them to affect us whi
 makes life filled with gloom and ou 70 selves filled with misery. The mi Q was never designed to dwell upon c % own misfortunes-it is that we may l. conscious of our blessings.
 # you grow flowers you may s- surprised by the magical changes h their color now that the nights ( ic getting longer and cooler and t " wood of the plants sapless and 1t .' withy-the dahlia laterals break n where they used to bend-and 1 ic crystalline character of the WI 1d plant is changing, and many of 1 m colors are much. more pleasing, a n your great salmon flowers may ha
 turned to a beautiful pink to VI ,d amazefa1ent. It may seem queer "a you; but it isn't anything but respot ~ to law. Colors in nature are not S ]. hle, but subject to the laws of liz 'o The specialization of the surface r. the petals of the flower has chang