Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-08
THE MAN WHO TALKS

enough to 1ace guns but they are not | to be found So readily to face tprih-'
 cipies. wherebysdespieable acts are an
 nulled instead of men, killed There 1 are more sides to patriotism than. this 1 one red side of murder and rapine. The patriotic women of '76 stood to- gether for z, homespun and, calico against unrighteous British imports. Patriotism means standing together for the public, good in. every, direc- tion. The united opposition to every kind of combination which spells ex- tortion, or nenaces the thrift of the people, or weakens the government, must be patriotically resisted. Eng lishnen propose to, wear. old clothes because new ones. are so dear and tbs English shoe makers have agreed to make 30 million pairs of shoes to reduce the cost of living. This is pa- triotism. .& .s i:sss-zs .s It was Byron who wrote:s "Oh. Ma lures noblest gift-ny gray goose 1 quill" Iteis surprising how many ages the gray goose quill held its no | ble place insthe world of letters as the | only means of writing. What a myriad of styles iii pencils and pens it took to l lead up to the typewriter of the 18th century. and which the goth century 1 typewriter promises to totally eclipse. | What would Byron say. who was held down to a a'Nclfp of 30 words minute to 1 poorly expfess himself in letters with 1 his noble gray quill, to the writing machines which cansnow prodhce per
 feet copy at the rate of 180. words a
 minute, or six. times as fast and in l comparably better. The world do
 move, but 1t has moved very. slowly
 until these later centuries, which have
 been more wonderful in invention and
 art than. all the centuries which pre-
 ceded them. s. t.
 To maintain the, true, balance of
 manhood is far from being an easy
 task Cicero in his day said: As I | approve of a youth that. has some 1 lining of the, old man in him. so T am
 no less pleased with an old man that
 has something of the youth! He that
 follows this, rule may be old in body,
 but he cannot be old in mind"., This | truth has shona down through twenty
 one centuries of time and is as true today as it was then; and will con- tinue to shine so long as man pre-
 serves the treasured revelations of the ages. Old age has its compensa tions,
 although Mark Twain thought life
 would have had a, more beautiful prospect for us all had we. entered first upon old, age. and had the in l fatuation of youth before us. Old age bearing the tag of a wasted life is an
 unpleasant sight, i It is long reach among things that 1 fly from t{le~ condor which can carry
 a horse, and, ffruit-fiy- that is one
 thirty -seepnd of an inch long with i wings which spread sixteenth of
 an inch; or the ,;wFenl which lays six
 or eight eggs. and fthe Aeshr.f fly which lays thirty thousand in sasaea son. The |! big things in Mature are far from be- ing the nosts1 6wonderful. When a it l comes to ,featsg gen ethe wing the, fruit fly eXcelS the condor; and when it comes te serving Naturefb by it's work
 the flesh fly leads. the Wren.a The fruit fly is not thei smallest. creature that
 flies for there are winged flies and
 beetles not over five or six lines; or
 70 many thousandths of an inch in
 aize, perfect in form. graceful. in move
 ment and of surprising agility; and ras
 beautifully decorated as the diatom.
 which Hlagnffled 10 oG0. times is as
 largesas q small kernel of rice. Ma
 dame Nature carries her art beyond tke sight and ability of man.
 The hpneana ear, is, not keen in the interpretation of sounds. for if it. was there would be,-a hundred times as many musicians as there are today. | luCEc are DlGu ODS6TNeTS WHO l1l6T-
 bret the rancous cry of the nut s : atch as 'Yank!"' and some as "Aulli ' , Just as some hear the quail say "Bot ,1i i~White" while to others it says clearly More weG" 4This last interpretation seems to me phonetically most cor rect. We all agree on chicadee, phoe- be- pee-wee, chewink. bobolink. and } the names which so many birds them : selves pronounce so clearly and un- ! questionebly correct. AS an audo- , phone the human ear is one of the crudest in Nature. since all birds and beasts hear slight sounds which never register upon mans tympanum. The cultivated ear, like the trained human
 muscle -scan@ eorrelate in music, beau
 tiful sounds but never yet has it done anything, so ,entrapcing as thrush's song.
 { It is the. horse-Ieech, according tc the Scriptures. which cries More!
 More! and istiieVef satisfied D But, as
 we looke3t the present and glance back to the long-ago, there seems to be plenty of evidence that man has come nearer to developing himself into g \ horse-leech, than into a super-man! 3 The world seems to have gone abou as far as it can upon the false pre-
 tences of men. and it is suffering | WOTSe lOddS &lOTi lttG sWGHC ClH GOI1IuOI
 honesty than for anything .s else o
 which we. gar. conceive. : It is useless t to claim present conditions are due tt ] this class, that class OF the other class
 for it is due to the unnatural condi
 tion of the whole. The philosophy o q life is simple enough but the tricks 0 | life prevent the realization of it..
 The time seems to have come whel
 every man, must carry two watches e one for rural and one for municipa s time. You can see there is nothing i
 the world right with man: not evel
 time. Fhe1whqle human race, regard |, less of color or previous conditions n T and the victors in war seem farthe o from the point of recovery than tn l. losers. The markets of the world ar
 unsettled and the masters of industr
 who expect to capture them should b l. sanely at work to meet their require 1T ments at rational prices; but in a 2 the entente countries labor and capi
 tai is clashing. industry is menacin
 progress, and their losses in the com " petitions of peace will be tremendou ;yt unless they realize that the deman u upon them for sanity and work wa IS never greater.
 What a popuIous place the garde
 is aside from its weeds and vegets lg ble products. There are thousands I'd insects and hundreds of birds tha a visit it; and there are thousands ,. spiders and hundreds, of thousands